Florian Dombois, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Florian Dombois

German artist

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1966

Place of Birth: Berlin

Profession: artist, university teacher, geophysicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Florian Dombois (born 1966 in Berlin) is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats. Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his PhD in Amsterdam and Berlin.
After that, he has developed a concept of "Art as Research" to challenge modernism in art and scientific modes of expression.
His oeuvre includes spatial and sound installations, but also happenings and performances.
2003-2011 he was heading the Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y), and was president of the research council at Berne University of the Arts.
Since 2011 he is professor at Zurich University of the Arts.
In 2010 he received the German Sound Art Prize.