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 and curating. 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 Weltmeisterschüler 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, functioning as thresholds between sensation and simulation, presence and disappearance.
Meisenberg’s recent solo exhibitions include Der Ekel, at Noplace Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, (2025) Reading the Bible at the Beach at Anton Kern Gallery (window), NYC, (2025), What does the smoke know of the fire? at Kate MacGarry, 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 Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, (Switzerland), Sammlung Harald Spengler (Munich), Sammlung Albert Kriemler (Zurich) the Boros Collection (Berlin), Wilh.-Otto-Nachfolg.-Smlg. (Cologne), Sammlung Becker (Cologne), Sammlung Köser (Krefeld), Vanhaerents Art Collection (Brussels), Collection Cesar Reyes (San Juan), Kiasma (Helsinki), Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin/Düsseldorf), Aachen Kornelimuenster, (Aachen), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, (Recklinghausen), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Sammlung Dietz (Stuttgart), The Pizzuti Collection (Columbus), Philara Collection (Düsseldorf), and the Zabludowicz Collection (London).
A monograph and an artist book published by Distanz Verlag offers in-depth look at his evolving practice.
