NEXUS Artist talk
Arnold Dreyblatt
with stephan römer

16 june 2023

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.