Andreas Tobias

Artist · Independent Curator · Cultural Advisor

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Biography

Born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1984, Andreas Tobias worked for many years as an actor on stages in Hamburg, Munich, Basel and Brussels, as well as in international film productions. His sustained engagement with roles, bodies and the mechanisms of staging eventually led him to visual art, which became his primary means of expression. His artistic practice encompasses photography, light sculptures and conceptual installations. At its centre are questions of identity and projection, inner psychological landscapes and the interplay between reality and staging. Based in Berlin, he now works internationally at the intersection of art, advisory practice, publishing and institutional development.

His work as an independent curator and cultural advisor evolved from his artistic practice, the founding and ten year direction of his own gallery, and an international network developed over many years. He advises private collectors, companies and institutions on acquisitions, commissions and the development of artistic concepts. He also conducts focused research at international art fairs, supports the creation and development of collections, and connects artists, galleries, collectors and cultural institutions.

Alongside his independent practice, Andreas Tobias works as an editor and Creative Lead for a Berlin based cultural publishing house. His experience as an artist, gallerist, curator, collector and writer informs an approach that combines aesthetic judgement with rigorous research, personal guidance and an instinct for unexpected connections.

Artist Statement

My artistic work often begins with lived experience, personal encounters and inner states. I translate them into photographs, light sculptures and conceptual installations in which the personal resonates beyond itself. I am interested in the thresholds between lived reality and staging, external perception and inner projection. People, landscapes and spaces become carriers of psychological and emotional processes.

For me, light is not merely a technical medium, but both material and a mode of thought: it reveals, transforms and deceives. My work asks what lies beneath visible form and what only emerges when we look for long enough.

In series such as Doch-Orte, I explore apparent non places as spaces of personal retreat. The Island uses Iceland’s raw landscape as a surface upon which inner states are reflected. For How to Cry, I photographed people in the act of crying over a period of several years, examining vulnerability, intimacy and the limits of representation.

“I want to see the reverse side of shadows.” This sentence encapsulates my search for images that are not merely seen, but experienced physically and emotionally.

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