THOMAS FEUERSTEIN

Thomas Feuerstein (*1968, AT) studied art history and philosophy, gaining his doctorate from Innsbruck University. As a theorizing media artist, he employs a method of ‘conceptual narration’ that combines art, architecture, philosophy, and literature with economics, politics, and technology. Linking linguistic, visual, and material elements and exploring connections between fact and fiction are key aspects of his practice. He creates artworks based on neural networks, biotechnologies, and metabolic processes. Feuerstein has received commissions to conduct artistic research. Since 2020, he has been professor of artistic discourse at Innsbruck University. He contributes to exhibitions and conferences on art and science, and his works are included in public collections such as Austrian State Collection, Belvedere Vienna, Eres Stiftung Munich, MAC Lyon, mumok Vienna, Tiroler Landesmuseen Innsbruck and ZKM Karlsruhe. In 2019, he was awarded the Austrian Art Prize for Media Art. In 2024 he received the Dagmar Chobot Sculpture Award. Thomas Feuerstein lives and works in Innsbruck and Vienna.

Feuersteins installations and “molecular sculptures” are based on chemical and biological processes that stand as symbols of social and psychic states of consciousness. They refer to current social and political issues such as the impact of biopolitics on the individual, the solution to global food problems, and the elimination of social boundaries. (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2015)

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