„I did not start to make art. I started to give room, to give form.“
Biography (short version)
Markus Feiler is a German conceptual artist. With his works he questions routines and opens aesthetic spaces that invite thinking, perception and the determination of one’s own position. His works comprise mainly object art, installations and photography, without limiting his work to individual techniques. Feiler’s works are represented in numerous private collections and are shown in exhibitions in Germany and other European countries. He lives and works in Berlin.
CV
2010 – today freelance artist, Berlin, Germany
1998 – 2004 Business Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany
1977 born, Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany
Solo Shows (selection)
2022 – BAS CS Gallery, VERSCHIEBUNGEN, with Olga Moș, Berlin, Germany
2020 Gallery Vinogradov, Back / Forth, Berlin, Germany
2018 Church of St John on the Wall, As Above So Below, with Ellen Southern, Bristol/UK
Group Shows (selection)
2022 – Blah-Blah Projektraum, LUMINOUS FLUX, curated by Alexander Hidalgo and Anton Laiko, Berlin, Germany
2022 – art.endart, UNITED MIX, Berlin, Germany
2021 – BAS CS Gallery, Stepaniada, Berlin, Germany
2021 Kabinett auction house, Today. Berlin. Art III, contemporary art auction, Berlin, Germany
2020 BAS Creative Space, Schlacht der Formate, Kreise gegen Quadrate, Berlin, Germany
2020 Münzenberg Forum, Bürohaus FMP1, Blick. Richtung. Hartz IV., Berlin, Germany
2020 PEACE IN PIECES, with international artists on 75 years end of World War 2, Berlin, Germany
2020 Green Gym, participant of competition, Berlin, Germany
2019 Gallery Vinogradov, sales exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2019 Kabinett auction house, Berlin. Today. Art II, contemporary art auction, Berlin, Germany
2019 Golf Club Pankow, Business Association Pankow, Berlin, Germany
2017 RAW compound, exit_strategies – individual utopias, Berlin, Germany
2013 Dortmund Museum Night, sah ich, als ich sehn anfing (I saw it when I started seeing), Gallery .derkunstbetrieb., Dortmund, Germany
Private Collections
Works are represented in numerous private collections.
Publications / Press (Selection)
2020 CORONART, coffee table book, limited edition (3.000), Ludvig Rage, Berlin
2020 Art Thinking, Fundraiser-Magazin, Vol. 5, Sept 2020, Pgs. 74-75.
2019 Berlin. Today. Art II, auction catalogue
2018 Wright, Steve: What´s On, B24/7
2013 51+ Positionen, exhibition catalogue, edition kube
Residencies
2018 Church of St John on the Wall, with Ellen Southern, residency funded by Churches Conservation Trust, included work-space, community outreach, media work, exhibition, Bristol/UK
Films
2019 Face_It – Das Gesicht im Zeitalter des Digitalismus (Face_It – The Face in the Age of Digitalism), documentary, actor (face), directed by Gerd Conradt, Prod. missingFILMs, nationwide release on July, 25 2019, Berlin, Germany
Curatorial Work
2017 RAW compound, exit_strategies | individual utopias, group show, Berlin, Germany
2a_space, shot films on climate change, Berlin, Germany
Member of the Following Organisations
2021 – today Kulturring in Berlin, member
2019 – today Künstlerkollektiv Berlin (artist collective Berlin), founder
2018 – today Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik (German Society for Aesthetics), member
2015 – today Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie (German Society for Philosophy, member
Teacher
2020 Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Art Thinking, lecturer, Berlin
2019 German Fundraising Congress, seminars Raum für Kreativität – für mehr Erfolg im Fundraising (Space for Creativity – for more success in membership), lecturer, Kassel, Germany
Further Professional Trainings
2023 Workshop Photography, Lette-Akademie Berlin, Martin Becker
2021 Summer Academy, Drawing, Kunstschule Prib (Prib Art School), Wladimir Prib
2021 Seminar Colour, Painting, Wiesbadener Freie Kunstschule (Wiesbaden Free Art School), Dr. Michael Becker
2020 Workshop Cyanotype, Vasily Melnichenko
2020 Seminar Objective Work Analysis, Wiesbadener Freie Kunstschule (Wiesbaden Free Art School), Dr. Michael Becker
2019 – 2020 Projektraum.Mehrwert.Kunst., artist programme, Berlin, Germany
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