Florian Dombois (born 1966 in

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

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and

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

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and

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, and wrote his PhD in

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and

. 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 th
Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y)
and was president of the research council a
Berne University of the Arts
Since 2011, he is professor at

Zurich University of the Arts Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK, ) has approximately 2,500 students, which makes it the largest arts university in Switzerland. The university was established in 2007, following the merger between Zurich's School of Art and Design (HGKZ) and ...

. In 2010, he received the German Sound Art Prize.

Exhibitions (selection)

* 2015 �
Inverse
�� City of Dresden (group) * 2014 „Struck Modernism�
Museum Haus Konstruktiv
Zurich (solo) * 2014 „Allegory of the Cave Painting�
Extra City Kunsthal
Antwerp (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-Preis 2010“ 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 Exhibition
in der Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (group) * 2007 „What are the places of danger?“ Imprimerie Basel, Schweiz (solo) * 2006 „Pre-Emptive�
Kunsthalle Bern (CH)
(group) * 200

Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo) * 200
„Klangraum-Raumklang“
KHM, Köln (group) * 200

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 Dombois
in Big, Red and Shiny 2013
Kunst als Forschung
a manifest (German)
Auditory Seismology

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