Artists

Ferdinand Dölberg

Press release

In his new body of work, the artist Ferdinand Dölberg addresses internal dialogue and the innermost thoughts we all have. His paintings formally recall cinematic techniques, and they are installed in ways that mirror the monadic nature of our consciousness. What if we could hear and see the innermost thoughts of others? The paintings and prints refine familiar motifs from Dölberg's practice: communication, estrangement, work, and the ambivalence between joy and constraint that his characters experience within the systems he sketches for them. Dölberg undertakes an analysis of sociality and consciousness, while also pushing painting to its limits by staging it in the space. – Philipp Hindahl Ferdinand Dölberg was born 1998 in Eisenach, Germany, studied fine arts until 2024 at the UdK Berlin under Prof. Thomas Zipp. Dölberg's works focus on questions about his own position within social structures, interpersonal relationships and the questioning of individuality. Fictional figures, mask-like faces and absurd body shapes, alongside changing gender identities, are the main subject of his paintings and drawings.