About

As a music and sound artist, Nic Krog’s signature is a distinct and volatile blend of bass-heavy club music juxtaposed with subversive sound art and spoken word. Their artistic trajectory is characterized through a diaristic approach, recounting mental processes and psychological baggage from growing up as a queer outlier in a small town of Denmark. The work traces the metamorphosis of the colloquial introvert to their negotiation of place in the hedonistic capital of Berlin, Germany. Their debut album “Reproaching the Absurd” (released under former artist moniker Misantrop by Opal Tapes in 2021), explored the artist’s enduring struggle with depression while their forthcoming release, the audio play "Perfect Pattern" (Psychic Liberation, 2025), is a first foray an overt narrative style, presenting a raw portrayal of a different kind of emotional and psychological self-awareness. Twentieth century experimental compositional music, queer house music from the 90s, and most significantly the storytelling of soap operas and Jean-Luc Godard's “Le Mépris” are the formal canon that reinforces the architecture of “Perfect Pattern”.

Nic Krog is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.

Releases

2025

Nic Krog: "Perfect Pattern" (Psychic Liberation)

Audio play – CD/digital

Bandcamp

2024

Nic Krog: "Love Under Will" (Industrial Coast)

Track on compilation – cassette

Bandcamp

2021

Misantrop: "Reproaching the Absurd" (Opal Tapes)

Album – cassette/digital

Bandcamp

Misantrop: "Song for Aaron Livesy" (Lime Lodge)

Track on compilation – digital

Bandcamp

Splash Pattern & Misantrop: "Body Above the Law" (Petrola 80)

Track on compilation – cassette/digital

Bandcamp

2020

Splash Pattern & Misantrop: "Idée Fixe" (self-released)

EP – digital

Bandcamp

Misantrop: "Untitled V.5" (Infinite Waves)

Track on compilation/reinterpretation of Grøn recordings – cassette/digital

Bandcamp

Splash Pattern: "Savved (Misantrop Remix)" (self-released)

Remix – digital

Bandcamp

2018

Glass Knot: "Anxiety Belief System" (The Wire)

Track on compilation – digital

The Wire

Glass Knot: "Present Tense" (Foul-Up)

Album – cassette/digital

Bandcamp

2016

Misantrop: "Limerence" (Foul-Up)

EP – 12" vinyl/digital

Bandcamp

Installations

2023

”Interior, Chris’s Apartment – Day” – Sound Art Lab (Struer, Denmark)

Generative sound installation with 8 audio channels and 2 video channels

2022

"Perfect Pattern" – Collegium Hungaricum (Berlin, Germany)

8 channel audio play

2021

”Not Your Night, Parasite” – Universität der Künste (Berlin, Germany)

Interactive 4 channel installation

Residencies

2024/2025

SHAPE+ Platform

2024

SÍM Residency – Reykjavík, Iceland

2023

Sound Art Lab – Struer, Denmark

Inkonst – Malmö, Sweden

Selected Appearances

UK Tour April 2025 *

2025 – 20.04

FORTHCOMING

Sunday School at Low Profile Studios – London, UK *

2025 – 19.04

FORTHCOMING

The Lubber Fiend – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK *

2025 – 17.04

FORTHCOMING

Sensitivity Sound Program at Cafe Kino – Bristol, UK *

2025 – 16.04

FORTHCOMING

Baked Beans on the Doorstep at The Old Hairdresser’s – Glasgow, UK *

2025 – 15.04

FORTHCOMING

PuppiGutz at Wharf Chambers – Leeds, UK *

2025 – 14.04

FORTHCOMING

Study of a Dog x Industrial Coast at Disgraceland – Middlesbrough, UK *

2025 – 12.04

FORTHCOMING

Gut Level – Sheffield, UK *

2025 – 11.04

FORTHCOMING

Braw Gigs at Legends – Edinburgh, UK *

2025 – 24.01

Kultur im Bunker – Bremen, Germany

2025 – 23.01

BEEK – Hamburg, Germany

2025 – 04.01

Roter Salon (Volksbühne) – Berlin, Germany

2024 – 28.11

Jolene – Copenhagen, Denmark

2024 – 11.10

UH Fest at Gólya – Budapest, Hungary

2024 – 10.10

T3 – Bratislava, Slovakia

2024 – 28.08

SHAPE+ Meet-up at MeetFactory – Prague, Czechia

2024 – 01.08

Total Black at OHM – Berlin, Germany

2024 – 20.07

Mayhem – Copenhagen, Denmark

2024 – 29.06

Bravó – Reykjavík, Iceland (DJ)

2024 – 25.06

Mengi – Reykjavík, Iceland

2024 – 20.06

Smekkleysa – Reykjavík, Iceland

Tour: Italy with Forster *

2024 – 04.05

Klang x Hyperacustica at Al Muretto – Rome, Italy *

2024 – 03.05

C3 at CSOA COX18 – Milano, Italy *

2024 – 27.04

Holy Matrimony at 8MM Bar – Berlin, Germany (DJ)

Tour: UK with Nick Klein *

2024 – 13.04

Industrial Coast at Disgraceland – Middlesbrough, UK *

2024 – 11.04

Cluster Node X CLOT Magazine at The Glove That Fits – London, UK *

2024 – 22.02

The Lubber Fiend – Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2024 – 21.02

Baked Beans on the Doorstep at The Old Hairdresser’s – Glasgow, UK

2024 – 10.02

Stray Signals at 90mil – Berlin, Germany

2023 – 01.12

Holy Matrimony at 8MM Bar – Berlin, Germany (DJ)

2023 – 30.11

Psychic Liberation at Säule (Berghain) – Berlin, Germany (DJ)

2023 – 14.10

Hell is Other People at Grove Berlin – Berlin, Germany

with Adam Campbell

2023 – 06.10

BEEK - Hamburg, Germany

2023 – 01.09

Hell is Other People at Grove Berlin – Berlin, Germany (DJ)

2023 – 29.07

arkaoda – Berlin, Germany

2023 – 29.04

Intonal Festival at Inkonst – Malmö, Sweden

2023 – 21.03

CPH:DOX at Alice at Stairway – Copenhagen, Denmark

with Matija Lujic

2023 – 02.02

Poetry of Misc x CTM Vorspiel at arkaoda – Berlin, Germany

2023 – 07.01

Codex Club at arkaoda – Berlin, Germany

2022 – 14.12

8MM Bar – Berlin, Germany

2022 – 25.10

HÖR – Berlin, Germany

2022 – 26.03

CPH:DOX at Kunsthal Charlottenborg – Copenhagen, Denmark (DJ)

2021 – 04.12

Proton at Ved Siden Af – Copenhagen, Denmark

2020 – 30.11

SoundsAbout at Zwitschermaschine – Berlin, Germany

2020 – 30.04

Pogo Bar at KW Institute for Contemporary Art – Berlin, Germany

2020 – 28.01

Saint Hollywood at Control Club – Bucharest, Romania (DJ)

2020 – 17.01

Sonic Curiosities at Villa Kuriosum – Berlin, Germany

with Jeremy Coubrough

2019 – 13.12

Mayhem – Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 – 14.09

Ved Siden Af – Copenhagen, Denmark

2019 – 03.08

The Changing Room at ACUD MACHT NEU – Berlin, Germany

2019 – 27.07

Sound Dialogue at Visite Ma Tente – Berlin, Germany

with Haku Sungho

2019 – 13.07

Force Field at Loophole – Berlin, Germany

2019 – 17.05

Power Play at private off location – Berlin, Germany

2019 – 16.03

Force Field at Loophole – Berlin, Germany