*Innocent Questions*, Holocaust Museum Oslo, 2006
Permanent Installation, Sandblasted Two-Way Glass, LED Displays

Arnold Dreyblatt

Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is an American media artist and composer. He has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Since 2007, Dreyblatt is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and is the Vice-Director of the Visual Arts Section. He was Professor of Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany from 2009 to 2022. His artistic practice of the last 30 years has ranged from large staged multi-day performances, involved installations and lenticular wall works such as "Ephemeris Epigraphica" as well as interactive artistic research projects like “Performing the Black Mountain Archive” (2015) at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art. At the same time, he has continued to develop his unique work in composition and music performance. Dreyblatt's visual artworks create complex textual and spatial visualizations for memory. These projects, which reflect on such themes as recollection and the archive, include permanent installations, digital room projections, dynamic textual objects, and multi-layered lenticular text panels and public artworks.

Artist Text

Selected ArtWORKs

Last Europeans?, 2022

3 lenticular transparent prints, lightbox, frame. 230 x 160 cm with texts in German, English and Esperanto by Agnes Heller, Ludwik Zamenhof, Bernard-Henri Lévy, André Glkucksman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Jaques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas. Jüdisches Museum, Munich.

The Black List (Die Schwarze Liste), 2021,

Memorial to the book burnings 1933, Königsplatz Munich. Photo: Connolly Weber Photography

Protocols Of The Future, 2018, 2021

Installation & Performance, Posters, Neon Color; 4 Tables, 8 Chairs, Platform. Exhibition “République Géniale“, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. Photos: Arnold Dreyblatt

The Resting State, 2019

Installation, White wall text, SD video projection B&W, 4:3, four-channel Audio. Neue Berliner Kunstvereien (n.b.k.). Photo: Jens Ziehe

Innocent Questions: Dark Numbers, 2016

Data projection, generative software, lightbox, color transparencies. Exhibited and commissioned by: “Uncertain States: Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency”, Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Photos: Arnold Dreyblatt

Inventar / Inventur, 2008

Table, Chair, Data Projection, Slide Projection
Installed in the exhibition: Recollecting, Looted Art and Restitution, Museum of Applied Art (MAK), Vienna, 2008, Photos: Wolfgang Woessner

Innocent Questions, 2006