Florian Dombois

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Florian Dombois (born December 19, 1966 in Berlin ) is a German artist. Dombois deals with time, land forms, tectonics, scientific and technical fictions in different representations and publication formats.

Life

Florian Dombois: What Are The Places Of Danger? Basel 2007.

Florian Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin , Kiel and Hawaii and graduated in theoretical geophysics. With Hartmut Böhme at the Humboldt University in Berlin he received his doctorate with the cultural studies thesis “What is an earthquake?”. Since 1994 he has been involved in various projects with the representation of seismological phenomena in an artistic context, including at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . His works include sound and space installations, but also happenings and performances. For twenty years from the 1990s he was committed to "art as research" and to the artistic reclamation of sonification. From 1999 to 2005 he was an artistic and scientific assistant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in St. Augustin. Dombois is the author of several specialist articles, essays and numerous lectures and guest lectureships at art colleges, research institutions and universities (including Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Artcenter Los Angeles, ATR Kyoto, MIT Cambridge).

In 2003 Florian Dombois received a call to the Bern University of the Arts , where he set up the Y Institute. Since autumn 2011 he has been a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and heads the research focus on transdisciplinarity .

Award

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015: " Inverse " in the city of Dresden (art in public space)
  • 2014: "Struck Modernism" Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich (solo exhibition)
  • 2014: "Allegory of the Cave Painting" Extra City Kunsthalle Antwerp (group exhibition)
  • 2013: "uboc No.1 & stuVi2" at Boston University Campus (solo exhibition)
  • 2012: "Päparat Bergsturz" Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur (group exhibition)
  • 2011: "ArtBoom Festival" Krakow (group exhibition)
  • 2011: “The Hornitos” sound installation in the sound park in the rhododene grove at the electoral palace in Koblenz at the BUGA2011 . As well as "The Last Freedom - From the Pioneers of Land Art in the 1960s to Nature in Cyberspace", Ludwig Museum Koblenz (group exhibition)
  • 2010: " German Sound Art Prize 2010" Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl (group exhibition)
  • 2009: "Off the Record" gallery yellow MUSIK Berlin (solo exhibition)
  • 2009: "A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow" Contemporary Image Collective - CIC, Cairo (group exhibition)
  • 2008: "The perfect performance is ... - A Reply to James Lee Byars, 1978" Kunstmuseum Bern (CH) (performance as part of "I am full of Byars")
  • 2008: "Essential Landscape" Galerie Bernhard Bischoff (CH) (duo exhibition with George Steinmann)
  • 2008: "Spectropia" RIXC / Riga Art Space (LV) (group exhibition)
  • 2008: "Art as Research" peer-reviewed exhibition at Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (group exhibition)
  • 2007: "What are the places of danger?" Imprimerie Basel , Switzerland (solo exhibition)
  • 2007: "A Method and A Device For Reproducing Solid Body Vibrations For The Prediction of Fracture Processes In Solid Bodies, Particularly In The Earth Crust" Marks Blond Bern (CH) (solo exhibition)
  • 2006: "Pre-Emptive" Kunsthalle Bern (CH) (group exhibition)
  • 2006: "Breccias" Gallery Rachel Haferkamp, ​​Cologne (solo exhibition)
  • 2004: "Klangraum-Raumklang" KHM, Cologne (group exhibition)
  • 2003: "terra answer" Gallery Rachel Haferkamp, ​​Cologne (solo exhibition)

Publications (selection)

  • Seismic Stations. Bookstore Walther König, Cologne 2002.
  • Art as research. An attempt to create instructions for yourself. In: Hochschule der Künste Bern (Ed.): Hochschule der Künste Bern 2006. Bern 2006, pp. 21–29, ISBN 3-87318-556-3 .
  • Florian Dombois, Guy Krneta (ed.): Close to the original. Five authors answer Albert Einstein 2005. Engeler Editor, Basel 2007.
  • Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer , Claudia Mareis, Michael Schwab (eds.): Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research. Koenig, London 2012.
  • Florian Dombois (Ed.): The Wind Tunnel Model - Transdisciplinary Encounters , Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2017.
  • Florian Dombois, Julie Harboe (Eds.): Too Big to Scale. On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy , Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8

literature

  • Kunsthalle Bern (ed.): Florian Dombois. What Are the Places of Danger. Works 1999–2009 Argobooks, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-941560-76-5 .
  • Museum Haus Konstruktiv (Ed.): Florian Dombois: Angeschlagene Moderne / Struck Modernism The Green Box, Berlin 2014
  • Josef Felix Müller (Ed.): Florian Dombois: Encore Vexer Verlag, St. Gallen / Berlin 2014

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Commons : Florian Dombois  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Dombois, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin