Mathias WeinfurterGermany

Mathias Weinfurter (b. 1989 in Frankfurt am Main, DE) works with ordinary, industrial, and everyday materials that are familiar from urban and domestic environments—such as steel fences or façade panels. By using materials that deliberately resist traditional notions of artistic value, his works explore how form, function, and materiality reflect social hierarchies and collective memory.

In many of his installations, Weinfurter employs modular structures and repetitive patterns—strategies derived from industrial production—that he subtly disrupts through interventions reminiscent of digital glitches. These disruptions open a visual and conceptual space in which boundaries, both physical and symbolic, become negotiable.

His recurring interest lies in the social and political dimensions of space: how fences, grids, and façades define territories, delineate power, and shape everyday perception. Questions of demarcation—between public and private, inclusion and exclusion—run like a thread through his work, revealing the quiet violence and fragility inherent in built environments.

A further strand of his practice is the engagement with remembrance culture and politics. Weinfurter investigates how memory is materially and spatially preserved, and how narratives of the past continue to influence collective identity. Through installations that translate architectural fragments and familiar materials into new constellations, he reflects on the persistence of history in the contemporary landscape—bridging the past and present while questioning how we inhabit spaces marked by memory.