Artist Statement
(EN) Johannes Thiel (*1999, Germany) is an artist and designer working in a variety of media, from sculptures and installations to digital works in sound, graphics and renderings. His interests range from computer-generated organic-futuristic forms and futuristic bodies to rigid technical constructions. Those are often situated within a field of natural living structures and objects produced by industrial culture. The visualization of manufacturing processes and construction procedures compose in his works and result in intersections of digitally generated objects and the physical world in the form of automated processes like 3D printed, lasercut or CNC-milled components. Johannes is currently studying Fine Arts at the UDK Berlin, and lives and works in Berlin.
Education
2024-now: Fine Arts at the University of Arts in Berlin, Class of Karsten Konrad
2018-2024: Visual Communication at the University of the Arts in Berlin
Class for moving image by Anna Anders
Class for spatial design by Gabi Schillig
Class for generative art by Alberto de Campo
Exhibitions
2024: Kaugummi im Motherboard 2.0, Gr_und, Berlin
2024: tmrw, Studio20, Berlin
2024: Atelier Gardens, MOLT, Berlin
2024: There is No Such Thing as a Blue Bird, Soma, Berlin
2024: CV(2003)ZN, Container Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2024: If not friend, why friend shaped?, Spoiler, Berlin
2023: Uninvolved Junctions, Culterim Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
2022: No Sex with Robots, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2022: BLUR, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2021: Nautilus Secret Location, Musikbrauerei, Berlin
Curation
2024: If not friend, why friend shaped?, Spoiler, Berlin
2023: Uninvolved Junctions, Culterim Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
2022: BLUR, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2022: “Oh, ich hab dir gar nicht zugehört”, Plast, Leipzig
Prizes / Funding
2022: Residency, Culterim Kaiserdamm
2023: Nomination for the NORDWESTKUNST Award
Publications
2022-2023: Kuba Paris
“Oh, ich hab dir gar nicht zugehört”
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