Virtual Sun
Virtual Sun is an ongoing series of artificial suns. A 5000K LED, capable of reproducing 98% of the visible sunlight spectrum, is focused through a Fresnel lens — originally developed for lighthouses, now embedded in most screens — to produce the illusion of a three-dimensional glowing light sphere.
Each iteration places the artificial sun in a different material and architectural context: wood cases, baroque rosettas of cathedral glass, salvaged car reflectors, modular transport crates. The series tracks the post-Romantic condition of mediated nature — light as resource, as commodity, as spectral surrogate for transcendence.
The works ask what we are basking in when the sun becomes a product.
Works in this series
A reconstructed moon phases behind fractured cathedral glass; nocturnal cosmology rebuilt as luminous interface.
Artificial sunrise and eclipse staged on domestic display hardware; daylight as appliance.
An artificial sun on maritime railing; navigational technology repurposed as atmospheric appliance.
An artificial sun routed through salvaged automotive optics; industrial debris as celestial substitute.
Eighteen modular artificial suns packed in transport crates; daylight as logistics.
The earliest artificial sun in the series; sunlight as installable architecture.
Exhibition history
- 2026Markus Klammer Preis (solo) — Städtische Galerie Speyer
- 2026CHURCH (solo) — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2025Georg Meistermann Stipendium Auswahlausstellung — Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
- 2024Wake up before Dawn (solo) — SMAC, Berlin
- 2024Introducing Xuejing Wang & Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau — RKSI, Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2024Kopf oder Zahl — BOLD, Berlin
- 2023fuenfzehnsonnen (solo) — benzin.LAB, Berlin
- 2023AMTSALON (with Galerie Russi Klenner) — Berlin
- 2023sans transition — Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
- 2023I found it in my stuff — BCMA, Berlin
- 2022objects (solo) — modus.konzept, Potsdam
- 2022Konrad, Wang, Fischer-Dieskau — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2022/wieviele — Feldfünf, Berlin
- 2022Diagonale / 4 Transfinity — Verwalterhaus, Berlin
- 2022Hyperlink — Bunker am Kaiserdamm, Berlin