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Maximilian Zschiesche (born 2000 in Karlsruhe) is an interdisciplinary artist. He studied Exhibition Design and Scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG Karlsruhe) as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), with minors in Media Art and Media Philosophy, as well as an exchange semester at The New School in New York in the Department of Media Studies. 

His work explores the concepts of the natural and the artificial, focusing particularly on questions of perception and the relationships that arise from them. To manifest his observations and reflections, he translates them into entities with a prop-like character, which he often produces in collections/editions and presents as loosely interwoven installations, videos, or performances. Aiming for patterns of perception and relations to become playfully tangible.

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EDUCATION

2025

2023

HfG Karlsruhe, scenography diploma (M.A.)

The New School (New York), exchange semester Media Studies

SCHOLARSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

2025

2023

 

2022

2019

Sprint residency of the hoepfner foundation

scholarship of the German Academic Foundation

(Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

exchange scholarship of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation

(Baden-Württemberg Stipendium)

nominated for the festival of youth theater (Theatertreffen der Jugend)

Masterclass scholarship of ZKM

Try Out scholarship from the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe

EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2025

2024

2023

2022

2019

Enter, Exit, Enter, Enter, Exit. / Orgelfabrik /  Karlsruhe, Germany

Ambassadors / ZKM Pavillion / Karlsruhe, Germany

Memory Rhythm (Performance) / Post Colonia festival / Marina di Massa, Italy 

My Little Farm / Badischer Kunstverein (Art Karlsruhe) / Karlsruhe, Germany

Komm nach hause bevor es dunkel wird / Studio Hö / Karlsruhe, Germany

​Einstürzende Neubauten / ZAK Zitadelle Spandau / Berlin, Germany

Masterclass #10 / ZKM / Karlsruhe, Germany

How do we play? / 111 Conselyea Street / New York, USA

Einstürzende Neubauten / Goethe-Institut Angola / Luanda, Angola

​Disruptive Worlding / ZKM Pavillion / Karlsruhe, Germany

​Die Sippe (Performance)/ P8 / Karlsruhe, Germany

​Masterclass #5 / ZKM / Karlsruhe, Germany

Kaputt (Performance) / Badisches Staatstheater / Karlsruhe, Germany ​​

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