Vita01.01.1980 Hamburg, lives and works in Berlin, Germany 2008 - 2014 Student at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UDK) 2009 - 2014 Participant at Institut für Raumexperimente2014 Master degree (Meisterschüler), professor Olafur Eliasson
ContactsStudio Felix KiesslingBessemerstrasse 2-14, 12103 Berlin, Germanyfelixkiessling(at)gmx.dewww.felixkiessling.netwww.instagram.com/felix_kiessling
Selected Exhibitionspdf of complete list > here
2023
Echtzeit, alexander levy, Berlin (solo)
Quitte Eisen Soda, Kunstverein Heilbronn (solo)Narrative Pieces: Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome
The Unexpected Universe: Traces of the Anthropocene, alexander levy, Berlin
2022
Oxytocin, Eins Gallery, Limassol Cyprus (solo)Remote_01, 2322, Berlin
2021
In process #1: Felix Kiessling - Now Now Now, Galleria Mario Iannelli, RomeNearly instant nearly raw - part II, Kunstverein Schwerin
Fluide Realitäten, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
Direkte Auktion Chapter 5*, Berlin 2020
Eclipse, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, ChileTaumel, alexander levy, Berlin (solo)Where Are the Lions? / Ubi sunt leones? MeetFactory Gallery, Prague, Czech RepublicErddurchstechung, EAC - Espaciode Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Accrochage, alexander levy, BerlinSo wie wir sind 2.0, Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst, BremenAntisonne, St.Matthäuskirche, Berlin2019the only stable thing, Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo, Venice, ItalyTrialog, Matucana100 / Galleria Concreta, Santiago, Chile (solo)Proyecto Eclipse, Centro Cultural Matucana100, Santiago, ChileNature in Art, MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, PolandFire in the mind, Galeria Mario Iannelli, Rome, ItalyAs a butterfly folded into a caterpillar that will soon unfold, Nicoletti Contemporary, UKI shall willingly pause, Mazzoli Projekt, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)New Positions / Förderkoje at Art Cologne, alexander levy, Cologne, Germany (solo) Hängung #20, KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf, Germany2018Impact, Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Regensburg, Regensburg, GermanyDie Informale: Videoramas (Übermut Project), Buenos Aires, ArgentiniaArt Basel Cities: Buenos Aires, programme project, Erdurchstechung, Chela, BAThe Art House, Office Impart, Hamburg, GermanySeven Exhibitions, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, GermanyBeobachtung, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany
2017Neuordnung II, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany (solo)Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, Kunstverein Hannover/Sprengel Museum, Hannover Forever Never Comes, Museo Archeologico E D’Arte Della Maremma, Grosseto, Italy Das Numen Meatus, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Germany (solo)Small – An Exploration of MIniature, Sexauer, Berlin, GermanyKunstnacht Konstanz Kreuzlingen, Konstanz, Germany
2016Time Capsule, Hase29 / Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst Osnabrück e.V.5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RussiaDesert Now, Steve Turner, Los Angeles (solo collective)Anatomy of Restlessness, Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome
2015Opening on the foam, Schloss Sacrow, PotsdamÉcole normale: Sol LeWitt’s „Black Cubes (2)“, Kunstsaele, BerlinVavilov, Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome (solo)WWSS Landwehr Edition, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin
2014Das Numen Impakt, 3 1⁄2, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin solo collectiveAusgleich Equilibres, Wentrup, BerlinFuture Nows Festival, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu BerlinOne Place Next To Another, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, MoscowAUSDEHNUNG, Alexander Levy, Berlin (solo)WALK IN PROGRESS, Vitamin Space, Guangzhou, China
2013Das Numen Momentum, D.A.Z. (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum), Berlin (solo collective)ACCIDENTAL ACCOMPLISHMENT, Institut für Raumexperimente, BerlinSkulpturenprojekt Wallanlagen, StadeDas Numen Sonor, Schinkel Pavillon (solo collective)
2012ADDIS FOTO FEST, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia>Le Trac<, frontviews temporary, BerlinTÜR UND STERN, Alexander Levy, Berlin (solo)Weltausstellung (with Institut für Raumexperimente), Tempelhof Airport, Berlin Marrakech Biennale 2012: Higher Atlas, Koutoubia Cisterns, Marrakech 2011Das Numen Transformation, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (solo collective)Your Body of Work, Institut für Raumexperimente, Goethe Institut Sao Paulo, BrasilBerlin 2000-2011-Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemp. Art Tokyo MOT, Japan Berlin-Tokyo Vektor, Autocenter, BerlinIdeas Are Motion, Multimedijalmi institut – MAMA, Zagreb, Croatiafragments of an unknown city, Krasnoe Znamya/Red Banner Factory, St.Petersburg Russia Das Numen H2O, Festival Über Lebenskunst, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, BerlinV o l u m e n, Senatsreservespeicher, Berlin (solo)Das Numen Day Light, 401contemporary, Berlin (solo collective)Without Destination, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland2010Neuordnung, Levy Galerie, Rudi-Dutschke-Strasse, Berlin (solo)
Grants / Awards / Residencies
Travel & project grant, proyecto eclipse, Goethe Institut Chile / Matucana100, 2019 La Ira de Dios (LID), Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018Travel & project grant, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa des Landes Berlin), Federal Foreign Office Germany, 2018Erddurchstechung, travel grant, Goethe Institut Chile, 2018Art&Architecture Competition, städtisches Bauprojekt Lerag Werk, Regensburg, 2018 H Residency, SACO 7, Chile, 2018Seas and Oceans, Art/Science grant, MS Wissensschaft, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research(Meere und Ozeane, Gewinner Kunst/Wissenschaftswettbewerb, Bundeministerium für Bildung u. Forschung) AAArchitecture #10, District, Förderung Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung IBB Preis für Photographie 2014 (2nd)Katalogförderung (Catalogue Funding) der Kulturverwaltung des Berliner Senats Berliner Senat, 2014 project support Das Numen Momentum, 2013KKWV, University of the Arts Berlin, project support Das Numen Momentum 2013Springhouse Dresden, Residency Program, Dresden 2013Call for Future Scholarship, initiated by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin & Kulturstiftung d. Bundes, 2010.HBC Residency Program, .HBC, November to January 2010Founding of the kollektive Das Numen, November 2009
Teaching / Lectures / Workshops
Guest Critic, Park in Progress, Landscape Architecture, UDK (University of the Arts), BerlinDiscovering Other Knowledge, Symposium, MeetFactory, Prague, 2022 Art/Science lecture, Nacht des Wissens, Kunstverein Schwerin, 2021Guest lecturer, University of Liechtenstein ‚Exploring Landscape Studio 3‘, March 2020Guest lecturer, University of Liechtenstein‚ Exploring Landscape Studio – Exams‘, January 2020Guest lecturer, University of Liechtenstein, Exploring Landscape Studio 2‘, 2019Guest lecturer, University of Liechtenstein‚ Exploring Landscape Studio 1‘, 2019