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) is a French-German artist based in Berlin. Spanning sculpture, kinetic installation, sound, light, and photography, his practice examines how technological systems organise belief, perception, and relations to the natural world. He constructs physical apparatuses in which ritual, ecological processes, and technological control become entangled, from mechanised devotional objects and artificial suns to extinct birdsong, simulated weather, and responsive sound systems.
Prayer becomes an interface, cultural memory a transmission system, and extinction an acoustic archive. This relation to apparatus began with the instrument. Trained as a cellist from childhood, he studied at the Conservatoire National de Région in Paris before moving alone to Berlin at age 15. After selling his cello out of necessity, he built an electric one himself. It was the first apparatus he authored, and its logic has shaped his work ever since.
Fischer-Dieskau worked in Olafur Eliasson’s studio, studied photography at Lette-Verein Berlin and ArtScience at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and completed his Meisterschüler with Karsten Konrad at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2024, where he has taught since. His work has been presented at HEK Basel, Städtische Galerie Speyer, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, and Kunstverein Göttingen. He received the Markus Klammer Preis and was Artist in Residence at the SchUM UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mainz in 2026. He is represented by Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin.
Education
- 2024Meisterschüler Fine Arts with Prof. Karsten Konrad — Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2019–24Fine Arts — Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2018–19ArtScience — Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
- 2014–17Photography — Lette-Verein, Berlin
- 2009–11Violoncello — Universität der Künste, Berlin
- 2008–09Violoncello — Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin
- 2002–08Violoncello — Conservatoire National de Région, Paris
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
- 2026The Magenza Protocols — Transmission After Rupture — Alte Judenwache & Sali-Levi-Haus, Mainz
- 2026Markus Klammer Preis — Städtische Galerie Speyer
- 2026CHURCH — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2026Nach dem Wald — SPACED OUT, Gut Kerkow
- 2024Rain Machine — Galerie im Turm, Berlin
- 2024Introducing Xuejing Wang & Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau — RKSI / Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2024Wake up before Dawn — SMAC, Berlin
- 2023fuenfzehnsonnen — benzin.LAB, Berlin
- 2022objects — modus.konzept, Potsdam
- 2020Ok, contact allowed — Edel Extra, Nuremberg
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2026Tending Loss — RADIUS CCA, Delft
- 202610 years Galerie Russi Klenner — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2025Frequency: Dark & Stormy — HEK, Basel
- 2025Berlin Art Week — Wilhelmhallen, Berlin
- 2025Mind the bats — Kunsthalle, Lehnin
- 2025Georg Meistermann Stipendium Auswahlausstellung — Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
- 2025Ortung 14 — Kunstbiennale, Schwabach
- 2025Transmute — Heilandskirche, Berlin
- 2025Collapse is not a Destination, it is a Process — Kunstverein Göttingen
- 2025In Good Company — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2024Collapse is not a Destination — Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin
- 2024Kopf oder Zahl — BOLD, Berlin
- 2024A promise of tomorrow — Frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin
- 2023AMTSALON (with Galerie Russi Klenner) — Berlin
- 2023sans transition — Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
- 20234 Elemente — Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
- 2023I found it in my stuff — BCMA, Berlin
- 2022/wieviele — Feldfünf, Berlin
- 2022Diagonale / 4 Transfinity — Verwalterhaus, Berlin
- 2022Hyperlink — Bunker am Kaiserdamm, Berlin
- 2022Konrad, Wang, Fischer-Dieskau — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2022Operativ künstlerischer Sektor — Villa Heike, Berlin
- 2020Untitled — AIV, Berlin
- 2019Mythocracy — Nest, The Hague
Grants & Awards
- 2026Markus Klammer Preis — Markus Klammer Stiftung, Speyer
- 2026SchUM artist in residence — SchUM UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mainz
- 2024Special Jury Prize — 45th Takifuji Art Award, Japan
- 2023Sonderpreis 4 Elemente — Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
- 2021–24Stipend — Cusanuswerk, Germany
Representation
- Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin — artist page
Teaching
- 2024–Lectureship — Universität der Künste, Berlin & Art School for the Youth, Berlin
Press & Publications
- 2026Berliner Morgenpost — Wenn die KI zur Beichte bittet
- 2026SWR Kultur — Kunstinstallation für die SchUM-Stadt Mainz
- 2026MOZ — Nach dem Wald, Gut Kerkow
- 2026ART at Berlin — CHURCH exhibition text
- 2026Galerie Russi Klenner — CHURCH exhibition text (PDF)
- 2026Die Rheinpfalz — Markus-Klammer-Preis 2026
- 2026Stadt Speyer — Markus Klammer-Stipendium 2026
- 2024Kunstleben Berlin — Rain Machine
- 2024FluxFM Radio Arty — feature
- 2022Berlin Art Link — The Trio Show
Contact
For studio visits, press inquiries, and general correspondence: r@rfdieskau.com
Instagram: @rfdieskau