Felix Kultau's sculptural practice investigates how objects, images, and materials acquire meaning through cultural narratives and collective memory. Drawing on industrial materials, found objects, and references to architecture, design, and popular culture, Kultau creates works that blur the boundaries between sculpture, installation, and spatial intervention.
Central to his practice are the mechanisms of nostalgia and the construction of collective imagination. Kultau examines the visual languages of mass media and popular culture as systems that have shaped ideals of success, masculinity, and identity while profoundly influencing how reality itself is perceived. Rather than treating these images as neutral cultural artifacts, his work reveals their role in producing and reinforcing narratives that continue to inform everyday life.
Through subtle acts of displacement and reconfiguration, familiar forms are detached from their original function and reorganized into open-ended constellations that oscillate between familiarity and estrangement. Balancing formal precision with conceptual openness, Kultau's work questions the relationship between spectacle and authenticity, surface and meaning, while critically reflecting on the material and visual structures through which contemporary culture constructs our understanding of the world.
Felix Kultau (*1984, DE) is a german artist living and working in Berlin. He studied at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the classes of Amy Sillman and Monika Baer and got his masterdegree with Monika Baer in 2015.