Immanuel Birkert

Immanuel Birkert explores how art can be integrated into everyday life. The forms he develops — particularly through his ceramic sculptures — are deeply rooted in art history, echoing shapes that artists have revisited and reinterpreted for generations. His practice moves between naturalism and abstraction, especially in his exploration of the human body, which he approaches not as an anatomical study but as a formal and emotional medium. Birkert’s work reflects a deep affection for Romanticism, understood not as nostalgic idealism but as a living attitude towards the world, shaped by sensitivity, wonder, and emotional engagement with nature, art, and daily experience. His approach is not based on a longing for the past, but in tracing and reinterpreting Romantic modes of perception in a contemporary context.

Born in 1989 in Frankfurt am Main, where he also lives and works, Birkert studied at the Städelschule Frankfurt (class of Tobias Rehberger) and The Cooper Union in New York (class of Pam Lins). Recent solo exhibitions include Acedia, Galerie Tobias Naehring (2025); Maps of my Ceiling 2, Las Palmas, Berlin (2024); and Shady Garden, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (2023).