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Niko Hendrickx (born 1974) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Lommel. He studied Fine Art Printmaking at PHIKO Hasselt and Sculpture at St. Lucas Gent. His practice moves across sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, video, and 3D animation. Transformation is not a style in his work but a method: each idea searches for its own form, material, and pace. Working from a conceptual and process-based approach, Hendrickx investigates how images and objects can shift, deform, melt, spread, or mutate digitally. He has presented work in contexts including C-TAKT, WARP and Z33, and realized Saturnus as a permanent public sculpture in Lommel.

My work begins with one central question: what form does an idea need at this moment? I therefore do not work from one fixed medium or recognizable style, but from transformation as a method. Depending on what an idea requires, it may take shape as a sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, video, or 3D animation. I am interested in unstable moments: when matter starts to melt, when an image mutates digitally, when language spreads, or when an existing form acquires a different meaning. For me, material and technique are not ends in themselves but instruments for making visible the tension between control and chance, nature and technology, the finished object and the work as an ongoing process.

2018 - videostill The Elusive Skull