Florian Dombois (born 1966 in
Berlin
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) is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats.
Dombois studied
geophysics
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and
philosophy
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in
Berlin
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,
Kiel
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and
Hawaii
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, and wrote his PhD in
Amsterdam
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and
Berlin
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. After that, he has developed a concept of "Art as Research" to challenge modernism in art and scientific modes of expression. His oeuvre includes spatial and sound installations, but also happenings and performances. In 2003–2011, he was heading th
Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y) and was president of the research council a
Berne University of the Arts Since 2011, he is professor at
Zurich University of the Arts
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. In 2010, he received the
German Sound Art Prize.
Exhibitions (selection)
* 2015 â
Inverse€œ City of Dresden (group)
* 2014 „Struck Modernismâ€
Museum Haus KonstruktivZurich (solo)
* 2014 „Allegory of the Cave Paintingâ€
Extra City KunsthalAntwerp (group)
* 2013 „uboc No.1 & stuVi2“ at Boston University Campus (solo)
* 2012 „Päparat Bergsturzâ€
Kunstmuseum Chur(group)
* 2011 â
ArtBoom Festival€œ Kraków (group)
* 2010 „
Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis 2010“ Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (group)
* 2009 „Off the Record“ Galerie gelbe MUSIK Berlin (solo)
* 2009 „A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow“ Contemporary Image Collective - CIC, Kairo (group)
* 2008 „The perfect performance is… - A Reply to James Lee Byars, 1978â€
Kunstmuseum Bern (CH)(Performance)
* 2008 „Essential Landscapeâ€
Galerie Bernhard Bischoff (CH)(dual)
* 2008 „Spectropiaâ€
RIXC / Riga Art Space (LV)(group)
* 2008 „Art as Researchâ€
Peer-reviewed Exhibitionin der Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (group)
* 2007 „What are the places of danger?“
Imprimerie Basel, Schweiz (solo)
* 2006 „Pre-Emptiveâ€
Kunsthalle Bern (CH)(group)
* 200
Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo)
* 200
„Klangraum-Raumklang“KHM, Köln (group)
* 200
Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo)
Books (selection)
* Museum Haus Konstruktiv (ed.): â
Florian Dombois: Angeschlagene Moderne / Struck Modernism€œ (Exh.cat.) Berlin: The Green Box, 2014
* Josef Felix Müller (ed.): â
Florian Dombois: Zugabe€œ St. Gallen / Berlin: Vexer, 2014
* Florian Dombois,
Ute Meta Bauer
Ute Meta Bauer (born 1958). She is an international curator, professor of contemporary art and the director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore.
Early life and education
Bauer was born in 1958 in Stuttgart, Germany. She studied ...
, Claudia Mareis and Michael Schwab (eds.): „Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research“ London: Koenig, 2012
* Kunsthalle Bern (ed.): „Florian Dombois: What Are the Places of Danger. Works 1999-2009“ Berlin
argobooks 2010
* Florian Dombois, Guy Krneta (eds.): „Nah am Original. Fünf Autoren antworten auf Albert Einstein 2005“ Basel: Engeler Editor, 2007
* Florian Dombois: „Seismic Stations“ Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2002
References
Webpage Florian Dombois* Stephanie Cardon
A Conversation with Florian Domboisin Big, Red and Shiny 2013
Kunst als Forschung a manifest (German)
Auditory Seismology
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1966 births
Living people
German conceptual artists
German contemporary artists
German male artists
Academic staff of the Zurich University of the Arts