Florian Dombois

Florian Dombois(born 1966 inBerlin) is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats.

Dombois studiedgeophysicsandphilosophyinBerlin,KielandHawaii,and wrote his PhD inAmsterdamandBerlin.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 theInstitute for Transdisciplinarity (Y),and was president of the research council atBerne University of the Arts.Since 2011, he is professor atZurich University of the Arts.In 2010, he received theGerman Sound Art Prize.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2015 „Inverse“City of Dresden (group)
• 2014 „Struck Modernism “Museum Haus KonstruktivZurich (solo)
• 2014 „Allegory of the Cave Painting “Extra City KunsthalAntwerp (group)
• 2013 „uboc No.1 & stuVi2 “at Boston University Campus (solo)
• 2012 „Päparat Bergsturz “Kunstmuseum Chur(group)
• 2011 „ArtBoom Festival“Kraków (group)
• 2010 „Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis2010 “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, 1978 “Kunstmuseum Bern (CH)(Performance)
• 2008 „Essential Landscape “Galerie Bernhard Bischoff (CH)(dual)
• 2008 „Spectropia “RIXC / Riga Art Space (LV)(group)
• 2008 „Art as Research “Peer-reviewed Exhibitionin der Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (group)
• 2007 „What are the places of danger? “Imprimerie Basel,Schweiz (solo)
• 2006 „Pre-Emptive “Kunsthalle Bern (CH)(group)
• 2006„Brekzien “Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo)
• 2004„Klangraum-Raumklang “KHM, Köln (group)
• 2003„terra antwort “Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo)

Books (selection)

• Museum Haus Konstruktiv (ed.): „Florian Dombois: Angeschlagene Moderne / Struck Modernism“(Exh.cat.) Berlin: The Green Box, 2014
• Josef Felix Müller (ed.): „Florian Dombois: Zugabe“St. Gallen / Berlin: Vexer, 2014
• Florian Dombois,Ute Meta Bauer,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
• Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity)