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Florian Meisenberg (b. 1980, Berlin) is a German-born artist based in New York whose practice is rooted in painting and extends into video, installation, and digital media. His work explores the porous boundary between virtual and physical space, often engaging themes of perception, intimacy, and the role of technology in contemporary existence.
After initially studying media design, Meisenberg attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he graduated in 2010 as a Meisterschüler under Peter Doig. In 2009, he participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Since relocating to New York in 2010, he has developed a distinctive visual language often incorporating marble dust, raw canvas, translucent overlays and oil stains, his paintings operate simultaneously as windows, mirrors, and membranes - thresholds between sensation and simulation, presence and disappearance.
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Meisenberg’s recent solo exhibitions include What does the smoke know of the fire? at KateMacGarry, London (2023); Confessions of a Mask at E.A. Shared Space, Tbilisi (2022); and A story is always told into two ears at Simone Subal Gallery, New York (2021). Institutional presentations of his work include exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Koelnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Kasseler Kunstverein Fridericianum, Kassel, ICA Philadelphia, Queens Museum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2019, he debuted Pre‐Alpha Courtyard Games (raindrops on my cheek) at the Zabludowicz Collection in London, a virtual reality installation merging simulation, sculpture, and painting.
His work is held in public and private collections such as the Boros Collection (Berlin), Wilh.-Otto-Nachfolg.-Smlg., (Cologne), Vanhaerents Art Collection, (Brussels), Collection CesarReyes, (San Juan), Kiasma (Helsinki), Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin/Düsseldorf), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Sammlung Harald Spengler (Munich), Sammlung Albert Kriemler, (Zuerich), Sammlung Dietz (Stuttgart), The Pizzuti Collection (Columbus), Philara Collection, (Düsseldorf) and the Zabludowicz Collection (London).
A monograph published by Distanz Verlag offers an in-depth look at his evolving practice.
With a playful, sometimes melancholic sensibility, Meisenberg’s work invites viewers to consider how consciousness and embodiment shift in an age shaped by screens, systems, and simulated encounters.
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