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Statement

Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau’s sculptural and installation practice examines how technological systems absorb functions once organized through religion, ecology, and collective forms of orientation. Working across sound, light, kinetic sculpture, and computational production, he constructs environments in which ritual behavior, atmospheric simulation, and infrastructural control converge. Artificial suns, AI confessionals, extinct birdsong, mechanized devotional objects, and closed climate systems recur throughout the work as material reflections on a historical condition in which transcendence, weather, intimacy, and memory are increasingly reconstructed through technological mediation.

His installations combine handcrafted fabrication with industrial hardware, sensors, stained glass, motors, terracotta, optical systems, and synthetic voice technologies. Visitors kneel before machines, encounter simulated atmospheres, or enter spaces where ecological and spiritual experience persist as managed infrastructure.

Biography

Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau (b. 1993, Berlin) works at the intersection of post-secular materiality and the post-natural condition. His practice spans sculpture, kinetic installation, sound, and light, examining how technological systems organize belief, perception, and contemporary experience after the disappearance of shared metaphysical horizon.

Fischer-Dieskau initially trained as a cellist at the Conservatoire National de Région in Paris and at the Universität der Künste Berlin, before turning to the visual arts through a year-long internship with Olafur Eliasson. He subsequently studied photography at the Lette-Verein Berlin and ArtScience at the ArtScience Interfaculty of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, completing his Meisterschüler in Fine Arts with Prof. Karsten Konrad at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2024.

Recent solos include CHURCH at Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin; the Markus Klammer Preis at Städtische Galerie Speyer; and The Magenza Protocols — Transmission After Rupture at the SchUM UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mainz. Group exhibitions include Frequency: Dark & Stormy at HEK Basel (2025), Collapse is not a Destination, it is a Process at Kunstverein Göttingen (2025), and the 4 Elemente exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (2023).

Fischer-Dieskau is the recipient of the 45th International Takifuji Art Award (Special Jury Prize, 2024), the Markus Klammer Preis (2026), and the Sonderpreis 4 Elemente of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (2023). He held a Cusanuswerk stipend from 2021 to 2024. Since 2024 he has taught at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Biography (short)

Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau (b. 1993, Berlin) is an artist working in sculpture, installation, sound, and light. His practice examines religious devotion, ecological rupture, and the technological infrastructures through which both are now organized. He studied at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Meisterschüler with Prof. Karsten Konrad, 2024) and at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. His work has been recognized through multiple national and international awards and stipends.

Contact

For studio visits, press inquiries, and general correspondence: r@rfdieskau.com

Instagram: @rfdieskau