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.