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Niels Tofahrn, Rosa, 48 cm x 52 cm 33 cm, ceramics, 2025
Since 1991, he has been represented in numerous exhibitions in Germany, France, Switzerland, and Belgium, and in 2016 at Scul...pture by the Sea in Cottesloe, Australia.
In 1993, he received an award for his design of a Jewish memorial for the Buchenwald Memorial, and in 2013, he received the Markgräfler Art Prize.
His work focuses on sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing. Niels’ current works sit at the intersection of digital, mechanical, and manual design.
He lives and works in Weil am Rhein, Germany and is represented by the Galerie Stahlberger. Read more
Niels
27 cm x 32 cm x 20 cm
ceramics
2024
27 cm x 32 cm x 20 cm
ceramics
2024
Soldat (Soldier)
48 cm x 38 cm x 26 cm
ceramics
2026
48 cm x 38 cm x 26 cm
ceramics
2026
Paula
48 cm x 52 cm x 33 cm
ceramics
2025
48 cm x 52 cm x 33 cm
ceramics
2025
As an artist, I absorb my surroundings. Knowledge, experiences, and emotions flow into my decisions about media, materials, and processes and are in constant interaction. The result is my art.
The starting point of my current sculptures are 3D scans of a person. The coincidences, disruptions, and errors that occur in this process are not seen as flaws, but as creative impulses that open up new aesthetic and conceptual paths. The resulting data is digitally processed, printed in clay, and the still soft raw forms produced are then further shaped by hand, fired and glazed.
The works emerge within the tension between digital, mechanical, and manual modes of production. They operate at the intersection of virtual and physical presence and address their entanglement.
The photographs are also based on 3D scans. Depending on the handling of the device, “mistakes” occur. Things get mixed up or blurred, poorly captured areas are “somehow” supplemented by the program.
In this virtual three-dimensional scene, I now look for the right perspective for the shot.
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