Felix Kiessling

Felix Kiessling (b.1980, Hamburg) is a Berlin-based artist whose work explores the experience of time and space. His artistic practice involves traveling the world to create minimalist land interventions, sculptures, and documentations that investigate dimensionality and scale.

Kiessling earned his Meisterschüler degree under Olafur Eliasson at the Institut für Raumexperimente, University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin.

His work has been exhibited in numerous national and international institutions, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Reykjavik Art Museum, and Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin).

He has participated in major art events such as Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires (2018), the Moscow Biennale for Young Art (2016), and the Marrakech Biennale (2012). Kiessling has also received various project and artist grants from institutions including the Goethe-Institut (travel grant), the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe (project grant), the German Federal Foreign Office (project grant), and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (art and science grant).