Bai Nike
·Cover· 01 / 06·
The Violinist, 2019. Oil painting by Bai Nike, created with bare hands. A violinist in motion — bow and body merging.
Oil on canvasWith bare hands

Bai Nike

Works · MMXIX — MMXXVI
Dr. phil. Nicole Besse
Köln · Mechernich · Eifel
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First Maxim Oil paint. With bare hands. Close.
I do not paint pictures. I paint moments.

As a classically trained violinist, I know the instant when music wants to leave the body — when movement and sound become one, before the mind intervenes.

Under the name Bai Nike — a gift from Chinese friends — I work in oil, often with bare hands. The paint is felt, not applied.

A painting is finished when it sounds.

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Second Maxim At the intersection of music, movement, and paint.
SERIES I · 2019 — 2024

Movement

Dancing and music-making figures.
A concert hall
where the light goes out —
and still the room resounds.

Work 01 · 03

FreedomFreiheit

A figure releasing itself from the ground — painted with bare hands, in a single breath. The moment of letting go.

Year
2019
Medium
Oil on canvas
Format
30 × 30 cm
Status
€4.800
Work 02 · 03

The ViolinistDie Geigerin

The most autobiographical work of the series. A violinist in flight — bow and body indistinguishable. It is the artist herself.

Year
2019
Medium
Oil on canvas
Format
30 × 30 cm
Status
Not for sale
Work 03 · 03

Tango

Two figures, one rhythm. Tango as dialogue — between impulse and resonance, lead and follow, sound and silence.

Year
2019
Medium
Oil on canvas
Format
30 × 30 cm
Status
Sold
Third Maxim Each work exists only once.
SERIES II · 2023 — TODAY

Nature

Trees, forests, seasons that burn.
A garden in late afternoon, where every form is an inner state.

Natur I
Blossoms · Andante in G
Natur II
Light · Allegretto in D
Natur III
Forest · Largo in E
Fourth Maxim A work awakens anew as soon as it is seen.
On the Artist
Dr. Nicole Besse (Bai Nike) with her violin in the forest.
Dr. phil. Nicole Besse · Mechernich · Eifel

Exhibitions. Academic. Atelier.

2024
Solo "Finest Moment"
Flageolet, Köln
2021
Dr. phil.
Making music as the art of encounter. Auragogics – reflexivity and intersubjectivity in musical educational processes
HMT Leipzig
2019 — 2024
Founder · Atelier DaSein
Mechernich
2016 —
Lecturer
University of Cologne
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