Florian Dombois


Florian Dombois 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 and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his PhD in Amsterdam and Berlin. 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 the, and was president of the research council at . Since 2011, he is professor at Zurich University of the Arts. In 2010, he received the German Sound Art Prize.
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Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015 „“ City of Dresden
  • 2014 „Struck Modernism“ Zurich
  • 2014 „Allegory of the Cave Painting“ Antwerp
  • 2013 „uboc No.1 & stuVi2“ at Boston University Campus
  • 2012 „Päparat Bergsturz“
  • 2011 „“ Kraków
  • 2010 „Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis 2010“ Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
  • 2009 „Off the Record“ Galerie gelbe MUSIK Berlin
  • 2009 „A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow“ Contemporary Image Collective - CIC, Kairo
  • 2008 „The perfect performance is… - A Reply to James Lee Byars, 1978“
  • 2008 „Essential Landscape“
  • 2008 „Spectropia“
  • 2008 „Art as Research“ in der Villa Elisabeth, Berlin
  • 2007 „What are the places of danger?“ Imprimerie Basel, Schweiz
  • 2006 „Pre-Emptive“
  • 2006 Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln
  • 2004 KHM, Köln
  • 2003 Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln

Books (selection)

  • Museum Haus Konstruktiv : „“ Berlin: The Green Box, 2014
  • Josef Felix Müller : „“ St. Gallen / Berlin: Vexer, 2014
  • Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Claudia Mareis and Michael Schwab : „Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research“ London: Koenig, 2012
  • Kunsthalle Bern : „Florian Dombois: What Are the Places of Danger. Works 1999-2009“ Berlin:, 2010
  • Florian Dombois, Guy Krneta : „Nah am Original. Fünf Autoren antworten auf Albert Einstein 2005“ Basel: Engeler Editor, 2007
  • Florian Dombois: „Seismic Stations“ Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2002