About

„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.

Biography (long version)

Artist Statement

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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