Matthias Geisler

Biography

Born in Germany 1985

Education

2015: Theoretical thesis Der Digitale Sisyphos, supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels
2010 – 2015: Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Diploma in Graphic Design, class of Prof. Thomas Müller
2009 – 2010: Illustration, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2007 – 2009: Illustration & Graphic Design, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

Projects

2023

The Dusted Atlas – Series of audiovisual performances, creation of 3D-animated footage for performances
Let’s Print in Leipzig · LAB, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig
Cargotour de Saxe with Jens Besser, cargo bike tour from Leipzig to Görlitz with performances in public art and cultural spaces
Participation in printmaking symposium

2016 – 2013

Kerrankin – Experimental improvisation collective, audio project – concerts & performances

2014 – 2013

Imaginäres Museum, Egyptian Museum Leipzig, contribution to lectures and exhibition organization

2014 – 2012

Schnösel Mösel – Visual magazine, project foundation and publications

2011

Composition & Scores – Workshop, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

Exhibitions & Awards

2025

Vortex, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich

2024

Pick ‘N’ Mix, Studio Bubec, Prague (CZ)
Do You Ever Dream Of Your Phone?, Porte, Leipzig (DE)
Cave, Ars Avanti e.V., Leipzig (DE)
Art Safari 2024, Studio Bubec, Prague (CZ)

2023

Wintersalon, Shower Galerie, Leipzig (DE)
Let’s Print in Leipzig · LAB, Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig (DE)
Scribo Oculus Mentis, Shower Galerie, Leipzig (DE)
Unwucht, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich

2022

Drawing Wow 3, minusoneoffspace, Vienna (AT), group exhibition

2019

Grateful Park, Pilotenküche, Leipzig (DE), group exhibition
Hungry Dungeon Friends, KKW Leipzig (DE), group exhibition
Drawings of Today, Gallery At The Window, Paris (FR), group exhibition

2017

Grund, KTR Gallery, Leipzig (DE), group exhibition
Pause, Vary, Leipzig (DE), solo exhibition
A Space Odyssey: 5 Years Raum.Weisz, Raum Weisz, Leipzig (DE), group exhibition

2014

Imaginäres Museum, Egyptian Museum Leipzig (DE), group exhibition

2013

Prints / Made in Leipzig, University of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU), group exhibition
Freudenhaus 24h, PopUniversell e.V., Leipzig (DE), performance
I Want to Believe, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig (DE), group exhibition

2012

Mat(t)hias, Raum Weisz, Leipzig (DE), exhibition + performance
Study Award, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

Residencies

2024

AIR Studio Bubec, Prague (CZ)

2023

AIR Drents Museum, Assen (NL)
Symposium Druckkunst Museum, Leipzig (DE)

2022

AIR Drents Museum, Assen (NL)

2019

Pilotenkueche, Leipzig (DE)


Description

My father, a pastor, took me to the movies when I was 12 years old. Seeing the opening scene of Luc Besson’s movie The Fifth Element (1997) had a profound effect on me. Two archaeologists stumble upon a world-changing find in a desert and are surprised by aliens who promise to return in 300 years. The fantastical conception of this film has influenced my work in many ways and ignited in me a desire for all things visionary.

Through drawing, I study life around and within me. Sketchbooks form a constant archive of impressions for me, ranging from the poetic to the humorous to the whimsical. Nowadays, almost all experiences are influenced by the internet and the resulting digital space, which increasingly define and manipulate our reality. This space and my everyday observations form a connection. In my artistic work, I try to work out narrative potentials as patterns using a subjective visual language. I visualize these as quasi-poetic image quanta.

Beginning as quick drawings, they are transformed into independent works using analog & digitally informed processes. I draw, print, scan, edit and mix analog substances (mainly sketches, but also photos, text fragments, quotes) with artificially generated images (computerized templates, digital edits, renderings). With these creations I want to incubate the auratic qualities of a digitally influenced reality.

For me, the finished works are time capsules. As artifacts of the present, they draw on the wealth of my experiences and observations: From media consumption, conversations, diary entries to literary fragments & dreams, they condense into a stream of inner and outer perceptions about life in the 21st century.

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