tobias kappel is a berlin-based artist whose practice explores translation processes between various image forms and digital media. he utilizes imaging methods, photo editing tools and printing techniques in a process-oriented concept of image making. kappel appropriates the prevalent feeling of being 'in-between' as a backdrop to revolve around questions on photography, painting and perception. the outcome is a genre-fluid body of work that probes itself into the contemporary discourse on images per se or imagery that’s lost its categorization.

 

kleid vor rot (brush)_2013

 
 
 

schwarzmeer_2014/2019

 
 
 
 
 

nadine danach_2014/2019

 

re_2018

 
 

mamma roma, ripped (48:48)_2019

 
 

installation view of “epilogue” for frontviews at haunt, berlin_2020

 
 

melkus_2019

 
 

morphed clouds_2017

 

hello, world!_2017

 
 

hoelzern (error)_2017

 
 
 
 
 
 

hp brush #1_2017

 
 
 

serra, folded_2017

 
 
 
 

eisschelf_2017

 

ineinander_2017

 
 
 

tipping point_2018

 
 
 
 
 
 

blue crush_2020

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

untitled (iris #2004)_2020

 
 
 

untitled (iris 20201207-004b)_2020

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

vista_2019

 

glossy (toile #303)_2021

 
 
 

you (toile #314)_2021

and i (toile #313)_2021

 
 

hurt_2021

 
 

innate_2021

 
 

auflösung_2023 (berghain flyer)

 
 

hath_2022

 

elongate_2023

 

usoni_2023

 
 
 

self-awareness_2022

 
 

tobias kappel (b. 1987, potsdam, de) studied visual communication with a focus on multimedial photography/technical imagery at the muthesius kunsthochschule in kiel, germany. following his studies he was granted a daad-fellowship to live and work in new york city, usa in 2015, and he has exhibited at c/o berlin, raum für drastische maßnahmen, berlin; museum kunst der westküste, föhr; alfred ehrhardt stiftung, berlin; frontviews, berlin, and the contact photography festival, toronto; among others.
kappel extended his artistic practice in 2021 when he curated and took part in the exhibition “open-ended photography” at robert morat galerie, berlin. his thoughts on the multiplicity of image-making and the medium of photography have gained further recognition through contributions to the fotografie neu denken podcast, the c4 journal and fototreff berlin.

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