Felix Klee

Close-up, black and white image of a horse's eye and part of its face, showing details of its skin, eyelashes, and some small insects.

Hoamweh Lung 2021, Video, Full HD, 14:39 min, photo: Felix Klee

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A pile of old black and white photos scattered in the grass, showing images of buildings, people and animals in a rural setting.

Hoamweh Lung 2021, Video, Full HD, 14:39 min, photo: Felix Klee

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A black and white image of a small wooden shed surrounded by tall plants and sunflowers at night. A flashlight illuminates the vegetation in the foreground. The background is dark and shady.

Hoamweh Lung 2021, Video, Full HD, 14:39 min, photo: Felix Klee

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A faint pencil sketch of a simple house frame in isometric view appears on a soft, blurred grayscale background with the shadowy outlines of leaves and stems.

Brennnesselhütte 2022, Zeichnung, 15 × 21 cm, photo: Felix Klee

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A black and white picture showing various animals, including a ladybug, a frog, a starfish and an insect, arranged close together on a black background.

Mi cuerpo es un animal 2025, Video, Full HD, 17:22 min, photo: Felix Klee

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A grayscale image of an animal skull, possibly a cow or a horse, floating in front of a black background and surrounded by several flies.

Mi cuerpo es un animal 2025, Video, Full HD, 17:22 min, photo:
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Bones and stones float under a clear sky above a barren, rocky desert landscape. Mountains can be seen in the background. The picture is black and white.

Mi cuerpo es un animal 2025, Video, Full HD, 17:22 min, photo: Felix Klee

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A dark, vaulted room with barred windows and heavy shadows. The ghostly, blurred outline of a dinosaur appears in the foreground, merging with the eerie, monochrome surroundings.

A farm full of animals that died decades ago 2025, Video, Full HD, photo: Felix Klee

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Abstract shapes and objects, including lamps, baskets and nets, are sketched in white chalk on a dark blackboard, with faint reflections and indistinct objects in the background.

A farm full of animals that died decades ago 2025, Video, Full HD, photo: Felix Klee

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A black and white photo shows the blurred silhouette of a moving horse in a fenced yard near a house. Bare trees and a forest can be seen in the background. The image appears faded or double-exposed.

A farm full of animals that died decades ago 2025, Video, Full HD, photo: Felix Klee

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A black and white image shows two desperate figures crouching near a wall covered in horizontal stripes, their faces obscured by a dark, circular vignette.

Norden Süden Norden 2014, Watercolor and oil on paper, 32 × 24 cm, photo: Felix Klee

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A watercolor painting shows four working figures with large white blocks on a dark, shadowy background. Black, jagged shadows hang over them, creating a dramatic and intense atmosphere. The picture is in grayscale with high-contrast lighting.

Cosecha 2024, Watercolor on paper, 20 × 24 cm, photo: Felix Klee

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Several people are bent over working in rows in a green field of grain. A small brown building and some trees can be seen in the background under a clear sky. It looks like a digital design.

Loop Labor 2022, Videostill, Full HD, 15:00 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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A group of people walk along a dusty gravel road past signs and a caravan in a rural area with mountains in the background, under a clear blue sky. This is probably a digital design.

Loop Labor 2022, Videostill, Full HD, 15:00 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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A woman in casual wear stands on a red vehicle in the middle of a fiery, chaotic scene with burning cars and smoke, under a bridge with palm trees and a hill in the background. This is probably a digital design.

Loop Labor 2022, Videostill, Full HD, 15:00 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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A dimly lit room with a large table in the middle on which two projectors are placed. Two rectangular projections of outdoor scenes can be seen on the wall behind the table. The floor is shiny and reflects some light.

Loop Labor 2022, Exhibition view of the 2-channel installation, analog slide projection, digital projection, single-board computer, servo motors, 15:00 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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A dark room with purple lighting and a curved LED strip on the wall. A large screen shows a video game scene with a person kneeling in the grass and mountains in the background. Two seats with headsets are facing the screen.

Loop Labor 2022, Exhibition view of the 1-channel version, video, Full HD, 07:26 min, group exhibition with Total Refusal »Every strike hits dead center« Digital Art Center Taipei, photo: Total Refusal

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A huge wave floods a city highway, sinking vehicles and causing chaos. Skyscrapers stand in the background, and trucks and cars are overturned or partially submerged in the rising water. This is probably a digital design.

Behold me through the water's wrath 2024, Video, Full HD, 05:08 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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A chaotic street scene with cars and a truck hovering in the air and a large shark jumping out of the water suggests a surreal disaster scenario. Buildings and streetlights can be seen in the background. This is probably a digital design.

Behold me through the water's wrath 2024, Video, Full HD, 05:08 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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Several people and a shark hover in the air at night above a pile of wrecked cars on a dark city street. Palm trees and power lines can be seen under a cloudy sky. This is probably a digital design.

Behold me through the water's wrath 2024, Video, Full HD, 05:08 min, photo: Felix Klee and Gisela Carbajal Rodríguez

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Biography

  • 1990

    born in Passau

  • since 2025

    Research assistant in the department of media studies, University of Television and Film Munich

  • 2024-2025

    guest studies in the »Emergent Digital Media« class, with Prof. Hito Steyerl, Academy of Fine Arts Munich

  • 2022-2025

    Movie montage at University of Television and Film Munich, with Prof. Beatrice Babin and Prof. Michael Palm

  • 2015-2025

    Film direction for documentary at University of Television and Film Munich, with Prof. Heiner Stadler and Prof. Karin Jurschick

  • 2014-2016

    Painting, with Prof. Pia Fries; digital and time based media, with Prof. Julian Rosefeldt, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Diploma degree

  • 2012-2014

    Painting, with Prof. Thomas Hartmann, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg

Jury statement

What attracts the jury to Felix Klee’s practice is his use of both new and traditional media in communicating his critique and proposals. The artist employs a certain reverse irreverence in examining anthropocentric relationships with non-human life. Based on his portfolio, his artistic investigations excite us – particularly in how he surfaces knowledge and experiences from other geographies and milieus, combining them with more accessible references from gaming, consumerism, entertainment, and daily life.

The jury believes that his tools can be more effective and long-lasting when immersed in other creative technologies of art production. We look forward to following his practice and his collaborations with non-human agents of the world as he disrupts our normative ways of seeing.

Renan Laru-an, jury member

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2025

    27th Federal Competition Federal Prize for Art Students, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn

  • 2024

    Another world is possible, Science Gallery London, GB

  • 2023

    Every strike hits dead center with Total Refusal, Digital Art Center Taipei, TW

  • 2023

    Sickhoes, Rijks Museum Twenthe, NL

  • 2023

    Carnival of the ancestors, Ghetto Biennale, HT

  • 2022

    Come alive, Het Nieuwe Muntgebouw, NL

  • 2021

    Videodox, Videokunst Biennale, Galerie der Künstler*innen München

  • 2020

    KIRJASTO/LIBRARY, Gallery Forum Box, Helsinki, FI

  • 2019

    Wanderlust, Landkreis Gallery, Neuburg am Inn

  • 2018

    Against Interpretation?, Gallery Vogdt, München

  • 2016

    Anderswelt, Kunstverein Passau

Grants and awards

  • 2025

    Federal Prize for Art Students, Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth

  • 2023

    Semifinalist 50. Student Academy Awards, US

  • 2023

    Best experimental documentary, Experimental Superstars Festival, RS

  • 2022

    FFF-Förderpreis documentary, DOK. Fest München

  • 2022

    Grand Prix, Diversions International Short Film Festival, HR

  • 2022

    Best visual innovation, Filmfest Bremen

  • 2022

    Starter Film Preis, City of Munich

  • 2022

    FFF-Förderpreis« International Short Film Week Regensburg

  • 2022

    Best Fiction Short Film, aluCine Latin American Film & Media Arts Festival, CA

  • 2022

    Best Short Film, Festival Internacional de Cine Cuenca, EC

  • 2022

    Media art scholarship and 12-month artist residency of the Kirchstiftung, University of Television and Film Munich and Regina Hesselberger

  • 2021

    Preis des Regionalfensters, Regensburg International Short Film Week

  • 2019

    Best short film award, Academia Film Olomouc, CZ

  • 2019

    Special prize of the media arts scholarship at the University of Television and Film Munich, enabled through Kirchstiftung and Regina Hesselberger

  • 2019

    PROMOS scholarship for realization of a project in Mexico

  • 2016

    Oskar-Karl-Forster-Stipendium

  • 2015

    Young talent cultural award, County of Passau

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