Fabian Dehi (b. 1978, Offenbach am Main) works with recurring forms that behave like bodies without depicting them. They have the qualities of vessels: an interior that carries content, and an exterior that makes them visible. His practice begins between the two. In painting, transfer sequence and object, Dehi creates conditions and negotiates with material and process where the forms hold and where they give way. Since 2025, these processes have come together in the body of work Belastbarkeit.
Dehi's works pose their questions in material: what passes from one state to the next, and what is lost along the way? How much permeability does it take for an interior to take in from outside and release outward? And how much can this balance bear before it – and the form with it – gives way?
Fabian Dehi studied Fine Arts at the HFBK Hamburg (B.F.A. 2018). He lives and works in Hamburg.
Education
2013–2018 Fine Arts, University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK), B.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Fabian Dehi X THE RAUM OBJECTS, Galerie | raum |, Hamburg
2020 1 raum – 1 künstler – 1 werk: Fabian Dehi X Tom Gaza, Galerie | raum |, Hamburg (online)
2019 Ausstellung No. II – Neue Natur, Galerie | raum |, Hamburg
2018 Ausstellung No. I – Melo, Galerie | raum |, Hamburg
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2026 WILDE MISCHUNG 9, konsum163, Munich
2025 Licht und Luft – an aesthetic bang, konsum163, Munich
2024 Lycra x THE SPACE //, THE SPACE //, curated by Sarice Brudet, Hamburg
2024 El Muro Majahua, Troncones, Mexico
2019 Kunst- & Warenhandel / New Etch, Galerie | raum |, Hamburg
2014 HFBK Design Prize of the Leinemann Foundation for Education and Art, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
With the work Rosa Rote Fiktion (with Moritz Führer); featured in: Hinz&Kunzt, no. 262, Hamburg
2014 The Open Shelter, project of the class Design for the Living World (Marjetica Potrč), Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen
Publications
2026 Cover art HOLD ME, 2025, for Benjamin Gucciardi, Arguments, Persea Books, New York
Awards and Nominations
2014 Nominee, HFBK Design Prize of the Leinemann Foundation for Education and Art (with Moritz Führer)
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