Philipp Hoelzgen











Multiples Weiss, 2026

Haus des Papiers, Berlin (D)
As part of the exhibition Multiples Weiß at Haus des Papiers in Berlin, I presented the works Exoskeleton and Driver Protocol Not Supported.

The exhibition brings together artistic positions that explore paper as a material, medium, and conceptual starting point, highlighting its physical, spatial, and transformative qualities.

Exhibition Views: Christine Fischler

Oykos, 2026 

Artemis Gallery, Vienna (A)
For the exhibition Oikos at Artemis Gallery, I present Urban Friction I and Urban Friction II.

The works consist of aluminum composite panels showing cartographic excerpts of urban areas in Europe. By polishing the urban structures into the surface, their outlines emerge as reflective silhouettes. The resulting metal dust and abrasion remain visible as dark residues along the edges of the cities, clinging to them like shadows. These traces become a sediment of human intervention, material evidence of friction, activity, and the ongoing transformation of the environment.

Quiet Matters, 2026

OKP_Schwanzer Trakt, Vienna (A)
Quiet Matters looks at sound as a form of presence and power. The works use mechanical footsteps, tapping and repetition to explore how sound can extend the body beyond its physical space.

The installation was performed together with Ensemble Airborne Extended, combining the machines with harp, harpsichord, piccolo flute and alto recorder.


Cardio, 2025
Planetary gear motor
approx. 210 × 50 × 40 cm

Tap, 2026
Fishing rods, tap shoes
approx. 180 × 80 × 210 cm, height variable

Liminal Grounds, 2026

Amfissa, Xarmaina (GR)
For Liminal Grounds in Amphissa, Theodora Vasileiadou and I developed site-specific works for the former Charmaina leather workshops. The installation reflects on water, movement and the industrial history of the site, while aluminium is stretched like leather in the former drying room. A sound work approaches the neighbourhood itself as a machine shaped by leather production, accompanied by a video work on skin. Suspended from the ceiling, a cicada exuvia stretched in aluminium refers to the votive tradition of tamata and connects ideas of shedding, transformation and memory.

Driver Protocol not supported, 2026



A boxing-glove helmet sewn from photographic paper is mounted on a rolling tripod. Detached from the human body, this symbolic representation of fighting loses its original function and is transformed into a state of clinical-technical isolation. The title “driver protocol not supported” functions as a metaphor for systemic incompatibility: it describes the failure of the interface, where a physical connection exists but understanding does not flow. The hardware is connected, but the software produces error messages.

Gelatin Silver Prints,  Eylets, Roller Stand
165 cm (variable) x 85 cm x 85 cm

Super Safe, 2026



The helmet Supersafe transforms the principle of a welder’s mask into a textile darkroom. Through a red light visor, the surroundings are reduced to a monochrome and monotonous perception. This visual isolation creates a sharpened vantage point that radically shifts the focus toward acoustic clarity and immediate detail. The blackout fabric references high tech fiberglass used in industrial furnaces. These materials do not just cover the body but actively shape our planetary perspective. As a technological interface, the object becomes a tool for an isolated yet heightened presence within the space.


Blackout Acrylic Fabric, Darkroom Safty Glass
35 x 25 x 15 cm

Substrates of old Gardens, 2025

17 September - 9  November 2025
Kunstraum St. Virgil, Salzburg Austria


The exhibition presents works by Linda Luse and Philipp Hoelzgen developed during the Artist in Residence 2024 program at St. Virgil. Their works explore materials such as soil, stone, textiles and photographic paper as active elements shaped by time, memory and human intervention. Linda Luse’s Dry Pastures examines the ecological vulnerability of soil, while Philipp Hoelzgen’s Silhouettes of Terraforming reflects on Alpine shingle architecture and the ways construction transforms both environment and social space. The works unfold within the distinctive architecture of St. Virgil, where material, body and environment continuously intersect.

with Ceramics by Linda Luse
curated by Andrea Lehner-Hagwood

Click Clack, 2026



The installation Click Clack navigates power dressing as a raw gesture of claiming spatial presence. Hanging from hanger-like constructs, two empty suits stride through the room - almost ghostly. An audio track of old shoes clicking loops through the air, charting a presence coming and going. The work questions: How much acoustic space does one own?

Morphologies of Becoming, 2025

15 October - 18  October 2025
Kombinage, Wien


Morphologies of Becoming unfolds over four days as a live, evolving dialogue between Daniel Hill and Philipp Hoelzgen. Moving fluidly between photography, performance, and sculpture, the exhibition opens a space where bodies and materials, images and objects, the human and the more‑than‑human encounter one another. Each day brings new gestures and interventions: through their work with photographic materials, the artists gradually reshape the environment. Visitors are not passive observers but participants in the process mirrored, refracted, and implicated in the transformation of the space. The project inhabits a terrain of fragmentation and assembly, where identities shift, merge, and dissolve. Disorienting spatial relations and unexpected sensory triggers invite reflection on the instability of perception and the possibilities of dynamic, fluid futures. On the final day, the sculptural forms that have emerged carry the traces of performance, participation, and transformation. They appear not as a conclusion but as a collective composition — a visible convergence of processes that continue to resonate beyond the exhibition.


with Daniel Hill

Performance Photos by Selina de Beauclair

Mining Roots of Planets, 2025

Keramikos23, Athens, 2025


We have spent thousands of years practicing how to live on a planet. History feels like Pokémon evolution stages leading us to a future of artificial intelligence and drone warfare.  I wonder if we possess the Earth or if the Earth possesses us. From my studio I watch the satellite dishes and antennas. My work links the technosphere, biosphere and geosphere to form a network. I create objects to understand the thin lines between the living and the non-living

Portrait Cicada: Theodora Vasileiadou

Circular Reset, 2025

Performance, 11 min
Theodora Vasileiadou, Philipp Hoelzgen


Level Zero, 2025

Soundperformance, 15min 
Vasilia Georgiou, Philipp Hoelzgen
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