Franco-German Artist | Painting · Sculpture · Installation · Public Art
Based in Alsace, France, and Berlin, Germany.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026
From the Osh to the Universe (KELP) — Solo exhibition, Galerie SEPT, Knokke, Belgium
Dunes — Duo exhibition, Künstlerkreis Offenburg, Germany
Kunstweg am Reichenbach — Public art intervention, Gernsbach, Germany
2025
breather. — Solo exhibition, la maison, Villa Benazet, Baden-Baden, Germany
In Between — Group exhibition, curated by Gianna von Haehling, galerie burster, Berlin, Germany
Room of Wonder — Duo exhibition with Enrico Bach, Galerie SEPT, Belgium
Enter Art Fair — Duo presentation with Lee Hyun Joung, Galerie SEPT, Copenhagen, Denmark
Inside Out — Group exhibition with Ivan Lardschneider and Gary Schlingheider, Galerie SEPT, Belgium
Offenburg OPEN — Public art project, Offenburg, Germany
2024
Light – Dark – Repeat — Duo exhibition with Sebastiaan Knot, Galerie SEPT, Brussels, Belgium
Mirrors of Perception — Group exhibition, Galerie SEPT, Knokke, Belgium
Parallel Realities — Duo exhibition with Lee Hyun Joung, Galerie SEPT, Brussels, Belgium
Sans Titre — Group exhibition, Galerie SEPT, Brussels, Belgium
The Voids — Group exhibition, la maison, Kauffenheim, France
Prints & Paperworks — Group exhibition, la maison, Germany
art KARLSRUHE — Solo presentation, la maison, Karlsruhe, Germany
2023
Kunstsommer — Group exhibition, Galerie K, Staufen, Germany
Essenz II — Group exhibition, la maison, Baden-Baden, Germany
art KARLSRUHE — Solo presentation, la maison, Karlsruhe, Germany
2022
Essenz I — Group exhibition and catalogue publication, la maison, Baden-Baden, Germany
SELECTED ARTISTIC PROJECTS
2021
Meta — Sound installation in collaboration with Malcolm Gompf, group exhibition, la maison artist residency, Kauffenheim, France
Artist Residency — la maison, Kauffenheim, France
2018–2023
Arts & Nature Social Club — Interdisciplinary art project conceived as strategic activism and social sculpture, bringing together art, science, ecology and social transformation.
Berlin, Munich, Los Angeles and Baden-Baden
2014–2020
Kreise — Ongoing meditative drawing practice and conceptual works on paper, Berlin, Germany
2005
Heads — Photographic art project, published in Loop Magazine, Berlin, Germany
2003
RED — Performative photographic art project, published in Stamm Art Magazine, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2026
Ui.Ja — Tobias Rehberger — Public art exhibition, kunst findet stadt, Kurgarten Baden-Baden, Germany. Co-curated with Prof. Dr. Florian Matzner
2024
Erwin Wurm — Public art exhibition, kunst findet stadt, Kurgarten Baden-Baden, Germany. Co-curated with Prof. Dr. Florian Matzner
2023
Nevin Aladağ — Public art exhibition, kunst findet stadt, Kurgarten Baden-Baden, Germany. Co-curated with Prof. Dr. Florian Matzner
2001–Present
Independent curatorial practice spanning more than two decades, with exhibition projects and collaborations involving international artists including JR, Hermann Nitsch, Julian Schnabel, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Sister Corita Kent, Nevin Aladağ, Erwin Wurm and Tobias Rehberger.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
2026
SALON Magazine — Eight-page artist portrait and interview, February 2026
OUR HOUSE — Der SALON Podcast — Episode 60, Das Bauernhaus in Kauffenheim, Elsass, February 2026
2025
Le détail comme monde — POLLEN, July 2025
A Vision of Art: Where Connection Meets Creativity — POLLEN, February 2025
2022
Meta — Exhibition catalogue featuring Prof. Jürgen Werner Schulz, Malcolm Gompf and Johann Alexis, la maison
2019
Essenz — Group exhibition catalogue, Circle Culture
2003
RED — Eight-page photographic art story, Stamm Art Magazine
FILM
2025–2026
breather. — Documentary artist portrait, 37 minutes
Directed by Stefan Armbruster. Featuring Johann Alexis in conversation with Çağla Ilk, former Co-Director of Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Co-Curator of the German Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), and Artistic Director of the Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin.
With personal reflections by Gianna von Haehling, a contribution by Prof. Dr. Maja Göpel, and original music and sound by Malcolm Gompf.
Filmed in Kauffenheim, Alsace, France, and at Villa Benazet, Baden-Baden, Germany.
SELECTED TALKS, FELLOWSHIPS & TEACHING
2026
Artist Talk — Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, in conversation with Florian Trott, Museum Director
Tomorrow Thinking — Host and initiator of an interdisciplinary podcast exploring the intersections of art, science, technology, ecology and societal transformation
2025
BBUG Fellowship — Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche, September–December 2025. Research and development of an interdisciplinary project connecting artistic thinking with social and economic transformation
Teaching
Lecturer in Artistic Thinking and Entrepreneurship, Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW), Karlsruhe, Germany
EDUCATION
1998–2001
Political Science, University of Potsdam, Germany
Multimedia Arts, SAE Berlin