Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler

Liebl and Schmid-Pfähler have worked as an artist duo since 2012. Both graduated from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach in 2017 and, together with nine other artists, opened a joint studio in 2019 serving as a platform for exchanging practices. Incorporating elements of sculpture, kinetics, robots and installation, the duo's work addresses the effects of technological development on the aesthetic and social aspects of human and non-human life. Its medium (technology) is at the same time a carrier of social convention and pictorial material. His objects expressing different energies examine the nature of electrical energy and humanity's self-perception of it.