Works
A curated entrance into Florian Mehnert's practice: participatory projects, data works, installations, drawings, photographs and paintings are presented as connected forms within one continuous investigation of perception, interaction and society.
Visual Spaces
Drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs in which landscape, materiality, gesture, and spatial order come to the fore.
Forest
Large scale charcoal drawings that transform landscape, density and observation into perceptual fields.
Works on Paper / Drawing
Works on Paper
Ink works, charcoal drawings and mixed media works on paper form a central material line in Mehnert's practice.
Painting / Canvas
Paintings
Painting is a material way of thinking through systems.
Edition / Etching
Etchings and Overpainted Etchings
Printed and overpainted works that connect line, edition, gesture and unique intervention.
Large Drawings / 2026
Large Drawings
Large scale works in which density, rhythm and observation become fields of perception.
Analog Practice / Woodcut
Lockdown Woodcuts
Analog woodcuts of broken digital displays, creating a deliberate counter movement to digital image culture.
Data Structures
Works in which traces, movement profiles, protocols and invisible infrastructures are condensed into visual or spatial form.
Beauty of Privacy
Movement profiles are translated into dense visual structures, revealing how personal data accumulates into collective form.
Data / Space / Light
Data to Light
Invisible data infrastructures are translated into a spatial system of light.
Public Space / Big Data
Freedom 2.0
A participatory social sculpture on Big Data, freedom and the movement traces of citizens in public space.
Social Systems
Participatory works, installations and public experiments in which social behaviour, observation, control and ethical tension become artistic material.
Archives of Possible Lives
A walk-in archive where AI, drawers and printed fragments transform biography from truth into a field of probabilities.
Social Experiment11 Days
Control, distance and participation become a radical experimental setting.
Forest / SurveillanceWaldprotokolle
The forest, as the last remaining sanctuary, is under surveillance, revealing the fragility of privacy under constant observation.
Surveillance / Video InstallationHumantracks
A multi channel video installation examining smartphones as instruments of surveillance and the loss of privacy.
Pandemic / Performance / Social DistanceSocial Distance Stacks
Ballett Stuttgart and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker become staged bodies of distance, vulnerability and collective presence.