Florian Mehnert
Florian Mehnert is a German concept and media artist. His work moves through Social Systems, Perceptual Fields and Data Structures. Across drawing, photography, painting, installation, light works and participatory formats, he examines how data, technologies, spatial structures and social behaviour shape contemporary experience.
Mehnert's works translate invisible processes into visual, spatial and social situations. Movement becomes line, data becomes light, observation becomes structure and participation becomes artistic material. His practice connects analogue trace, digital infrastructure and social sculpture.
Systems become image, space and social situation.
Mehnert works across drawing, photography, painting, installation and participatory formats. Rather than separating media, the practice follows recurring structures: observation, movement, participation, data translation and social behaviour.
Digital infrastructures, surveillance systems and collective interaction are translated into visual, spatial and physical situations. Drawings, light works and participatory projects are understood as connected forms within one continuous practice.
Born in Cologne, Germany. Studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and at the
University of Freiburg. He founded the Institute
for Experimental Art.
Artist in Residence at MuseumsQuartier Q21, Vienna, Austria, 2016.
Books, catalogues and documentation
Publications include the current book AI and the Future of Society, published with Dr. Stefan Brink, as well as The Art Experiment 11 Days, Freedom 2.0 and the Extended catalogue series.
Books, catalogues and project documentation are listed in the archive documentation section.
Collections, institutions and public space
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Kunstforum Darmstadt
Morat Institut Freiburg
Regierungspräsidium Freiburg
C/O Berlin (Hasselblad Foundation)
MuseumsQuartier Q21 Vienna (Artist in Residence)
Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
Kunstverein Wolfsburg
OK Linz, Austria
Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin
Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Switzerland
Disseny Hub Barcelona
Data to Light, Stuttgart, 2022
Freiheit 2.0, Stuttgart / Basel / Weil am Rhein, 2016 + 2018
Fragments Elements Details, 16-channel projection, 2024
Studio
Exhibitions / Talks / Press / Image material