My artistic practice is predominantly research-based and takes the form of sculpture and video installations as well as of image and text-based works. I am concerned with the narratives through which history is constructed and imparted in public space, museums and media. Rather than to develop self-contained finalized ‘works’, I aim to spark discourse and to initiate continuous processes, that take effect in a multitude of contexts. The practice of exhibiting is therefore not an end in itself, but should rather be understood as processual, generating provisional arrangements, that can be reflected and added on to, sparking dialogue with an among the audience.

In my long-term research project on catastrophe modelling, I am investigating how historical as well as future catastrophic events are visualized and imparted, commemorated and predicted, with a particular focus on the role that models and modeling processes play in these contexts. Results were shown in solo exhibitions in Tokyo (Modeling Catastrophe – A Test Arrangement , Studio 1-8-5, 2013), in Berlin (Risikolandschaften, Meinblau Project Space, 2022), in Sendai (Promethean Leaps, Turn Another Round, 2022) and in contributions to several group exhibitions (e.g. at Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin , Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, 2015; Deep Inside, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 2017; Nakanojo Biennial , Japan 2019 and as part of Tipping Point , Memphis Art Space, Linz, Austria 2021).
In conjunction with Goldmann’s contribution to Nakanojo Biennial in 2019,  Modeling Catastrophe.
Preliminary Remarks (AKV Berlin) was published in both English and Japanese.

CV

Florian Goldmann is a visual artist and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. He studied sculpture and
media art in Edinburgh, Athens and Berlin, graduating in 2012 with the publication of ‘Flexible Signposts
to Coded Territories’, in which the graffiti of football fans in Athens is analyzed for its potential function
as a system of fluid signage.
From 2014 to 2018 he was a fellow at the research training centre ‘Visibility and Visualisation – Hybrid
Forms of Pictorial Knowledge’ as well as the Brandenburg Centre for Media Studies at Potsdam

University with a project on the utilization of models as means of representing, commemorating and
predicting catastrophic events.
With the collective STRATAGRIDS contributions to publications and exhibitions were developed (e.g. in
the context of House of the Cultures of the World Berlin’s Anthropocene Project (2014) or at ‘How the
Bauhaus Came to Weimar. An Archive of Heat and Cold‘, at the Thuringian State Archaeological
Museum, Weimar (2018).

Solo/Duo exhibitions, Communal efforts

2022 – Promethean Leaps, Turn Another Round, Sendai, Japan.
2022 – Risikolandschaften, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, Germany.
2021 – Fear Filter, Marzahner Promenade 40, Berlin, Germany.
2021 – Tipping Point (with Som Supaparinya), Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, Austria.
2018 – Standardized Waters (with SERAPIS), Seccma Trust, Athens, Greece.
2017 – Green Room (group exhibition curated with STRATAGRIDS), PiK, Cologne, Germany.
2016 – Width Gap Infinitude (with STRATAGRIDS), Minibar, Stockholm, Sweden.
2016 – The Greece of Asia, Daegu Foundation for Culture, Daegu, South Korea.
2015 – Worlds Waiting to Happen (with STRATAGRIDS), MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.
2015 – Customized Risk (with Vincent Grunwald), Earth Gallery, Dresden, Germany.
2013 – Modeling Catastrophe. A Test Arrangement, Studio 1–8–5, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.
2012 – Fantasdyne (with Kevin Kemter), Kunst und Seele, Berlin, Germany.

Group exhibition contributions (selection)

2021/22 – Do You Miss The Future?, Hyundai Motor Studio, Busan, South Korea.
2020 – SOLO, Kino Babylon Kreuzberg, Berlin.
2020 – Kartoffelmuseum Nr.7, Stallmuseum, Groß Fredenwalde (Uckermark), Germany.
2019 – Nakanojo Biennale, Gunma, Japan.
2019 – Engaging with Histories, Römerstrasse, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.
2018 – Architectural Ethnography: Portraits on Livelihood, Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice
Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy.
2018 – Archive of Heat and Cold. How the Bauhaus Came to Weimar, (with STRATAGRIDS),
Kunstfest Weimar, Museum of Pre- and Ancient History and ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany.

2017 – Wayfarer, Korean Cultural Foundation, Berlin, Germany.
2016 – Micro City Lab, Indie Art Hall Gong, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 – Staging Distance (with STRATAGRIDS), Zeiss Großplanetarium, Berlin, Germany.
2016 – Collapse, Hapjeongjigu, Seoul, South Korea.
2016 – CHEZ EUX: Unseen Collections, Circuits and Currents, Athens, Greece.
2016 – Deep Inside, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia.
2016 – Trembling Spaces, Römerstrasse, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany.

Publications

2020 — 大災害のモデルをつくるー試みとしての構想 [Daisaigai no moderu wo tsukuru.
Kokoromi to shite no kōsō], AKV Berlin.
2019 – Modeling Catastrophe. Preliminary Remarks, AKV Berlin.
2014 – Measuring Infinity. A Test Arrangement, STRATAGRIDS (ed.), AKV Berlin.
2012 – Flexible Signposts to Coded Territories, AKV/UdK Berlin.”

LINK

https://floriangoldmann.com/

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