About
Artist Statement
Johannes Thiel (*1999, Germany) works across media, from digital graphics and renderings to sculptures and object constellations. Their visual language is shaped by mechanical systems, industrial fabrication methods and digital design processes. The works suggest forms that exist between technology and living structures, echoing mechanical systems, bodily fragments, and architectural structures.
Through automated fabrication methods such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC milling, digital rule-based designs are transformed into smooth, sterile objects that appear grown rather than built. They are pseudo-technologies: systems that simulate function without fully performing it. Movements, signals, and patterns suggest life, yet remain artificial.
The works explore the overlap of artificial and organic as permeable domains. They suggest a future archaeology, oscillating between prototype and fossil, where precision, repetition, mutation, and deviation produce hybrid entities. Their industrial logic and algorithmic protocols leave minimum traces of human traces, creating bodies without origin, that seem to exist independently.
Johannes Thiel is currently studying Fine Arts at UdK Berlin with Prof. Karsten Konrad and lives and works in Berlin.
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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
2025: The Neoliberal Urge to Curate A Friendsgroup, ACUD, Berlin
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
2024: You Can't Put the Golden Spiral on Everything, Culterim, Berlin
2024: Splinter Catalog, Untitled, Berlin
2023: Uninvolved Junctions, Culterim Gesundbrunnen, Berlin
2023: NORDWESTKUNST, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven
2022: No Sex with Robots, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
2022: BLUR, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
2022: Micro Fest, Burgscheidungen
2022: HYPERLINK, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
2022: Culterim Kaiserdamm, Culterim Gallery, Berlin
2022: Garden of Performance, Treptow Ateliers, Berlin
2022: "Oh, ich hab dir garnicht zugehört", Plast, Leipzig
2022: CTM Vorspiel, Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin
2021: Nautilus Secret Location, Musikbrauerei, Berlin
2021: Morgen, Domäne Dahlem, Berlin
2020: Awkward Kollektiv "Fatal", ORi, Berlin
2019: R01 Beta, Projekraum 145, Berlin
Curation
2025: The Neoliberal Urge to Curate A Friendsgroup, ACUD, Berlin
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
2025: OFluxo
The Neoliberal Urge to Curate a Friendsgroup2024: Fakewhale
Fakewhale in conversation with Johannes Thiel2022-2023: Kuba Paris
Uninvolved Junctions "Oh, ich hab dir gar nicht zugehört" BLUR 2022: Monopol MagazinFurther Projects
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