Nils-Benedikt Fischer

Nils Benedikt Fischer is a visual artist who combines sculpture, engineering and filmmaking. His work explores how individual experiences and memories converge to form a ‚personal history’ and lay the foundation for a process of worlding. By using self-developed projection machines which embody an essence of the medium they project, Fischer shifts the idea of the machine as a reproducible and potent tool to an individual vessel that represents states of fragility, doubt and the search for identity. Often incorporating organic materials such as plants, hair or fingernails and combining them with industrial components and sculptural materials, his works evade categorization and create an autonomous sphere that host the nucleus of a story.
Nils Benedikt Fischer was raised in Dessau and lives in Berlin.

Artworks 

Inhabited Basins (2024),  kinetic object.

The series Inhabited Basins (2024) unfolds an inner landscape and questions past decisions that have led to profound changes in the artist’s life. The works consist of basins filled with a cooling lubricant and platforms that set the basins in motion. Each basin moves at a certain speed and radius, creating its own temporal metric. The cooling liquids have varying degrees of turbidity, veiling pictorial arrangements that serve as markers for the biographical crossroads displayed on a map in the center of the installation. The map consists of various landscapes which refer to biographical contexts of the artist. Overlapping one another, these landscapes lose their geographical validity and become an imaginary place of memory. A basin in the center collects drops of cooling liquid and periodically pours them onto different sections of the map. The seasonal flood (a familiar experience during the artist’s childhood) activates different areas of memory and serves as the fertile source to replenish the adjacent basins.

Flying Carpets (2024), kinetic obejct

Encountering the disturbed reflections of the past is also a central theme in the series Flying Carpets (2024), in which sheets of Kodak clear film move over polished aluminum plates. Each film contains the image of a space once inhabited by the artist. Through a process of encryption, the original content has been transformed into patterns resembling the geometry of carpets. Floating above the water-like aluminum surfaces, these carpets are kept in a permanent dance
with their own mirror images.

Constellation, Courtesy Nils-Benedikt Fischer.

Nils Benedikt Fischer is a visual artist who combines sculpture, engineering and filmmaking. His work explores how individual experiences and memories converge to form a ‚personal history’ and lay the foundation for a process of worlding. By using self-developed projection machines which embody an essence of the medium they project, Fischer shifts the idea of the machine as a reproducible and potent tool to an individual vessel that represents states of fragility, doubt and the search for identity. Often incorporating organic materials such as plants, hair or fingernails and combining them with industrial components and sculptural materials, his works evade categorization and create an autonomous sphere that host the nucleus of a story.
Nils Benedikt Fischer was raised in Dessau and lives in Berlin.

Constellation, Courtesy Nils-Benedikt Fischer.

Termninal, Courtesey Nils-Benedikt Fischer

                                                                                    Termninal, Courtesey Nils-Benedikt Fischer

Flying Carpets, Courtesy Nils-Benedikt Fischer

Flying Carpets, Nils-Benedikt Fischer.

CV
2011 - 2016 BA Fine Arts University of the Arts Berlin
2017 Meisterschüler of Tilman Wendland, University of the Arts Berlin

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Reservoir, Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin 2024
Zeit fragt Wetter, feld5, Berlin 2022
Retina, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin 2020
Preis des Präsidenten der Udk Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 2018
Kombinat Exquisit, Bar Babette, Berlin 2017
Konstellation, UdK Berlin, 2017
Davor (die Kunstkurzfilmserie), Freiluftbühne Weißensee, Berlin 2016
The Attachment, Willner Brauerei Berlin 2014

PRIZES AND GRANTS
Neustart-Kultur Stipendium, Kunstfonds Bonn, 2022
Neustart für Bildende Künstler und Künstlerinnen, Deutscher Künstlerbund 2021
Research Scholarship Fine Arts of the Culture Department of Berlin 2020
Creative Prototyping Scholarship of the ESF and the UdK Berlin 2019
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin (NaFöG) 2018/19
Preis des Präsidenten der UdK Berlin für Meisterschülerinnen
und Meisterschüler 2018