
Felix Sattler
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2024
• Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories, Tieranatomisches Theater
2022 & 2023
• UnBinding Bodies. Lotos Shoes and Corset — co-curated with Jasmin Mersmann and Evke Rulffes, MARKK – Museum am Rothenbaum Künste und Kulturen (Hamburg) & Tieranatomisches Theater
2022
• DAOULA | sheen. West African Wild Silk on Its Way — co-curated with Karin Krauthausen and Laurence Douny, Tieranatomisches Theater
2019 – present
• Meshwork of Things: The Sammlungsschaufenster of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — co-curated with Sarah Becker and Jessica Korp, Tieranatomisches Theater
2018
• The Dead, as far as [ ] can remember, Tieranatomisches Theater
2017
• Replica Knowledge. An Archaeology of the Multiple Past — co-curated with Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Tieranatomisches Theater
2016
• Orobates. Reanimated after 300 million years — project lead together with John Nyakatura, Michael Ott, and Matthias Schmitt, Phyletisches Museum (Jena) & Tieranatomisches Theater
2015, 2017 & 2021
• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: SINUS, SYNTH & Helmholtz VOOCAAL, Tieranatomisches Theater
2015
• More of Less. The longing for simplicity and the desire for excess — curated by EXPONENTEN (Nina Wiedemeyer and Felix Sattler), Vögele Kulturzentrum (Pfäffikon/SZ)
2014
• Our Animals (Unsere Tiere) — co-curated with Michael Fehr, Frank Steinheimer, and Renate Schafberg, Tieranatomisches Theater
2010
• Domestication, Phyletisches Museum (Jena)
2008/09
• Diatomeen – Formensinn (Diatoms – The Sense of Form), Phyletisches Museum (Jena)
Felix Sattler is a curator, artist, and museum researcher. Since 2013, he has directed the TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a venue and laboratory for aesthetic knowledge practices. Across more than 40 international exhibitions, his work has engaged with topics such as the art and design history of unicellular algae, the epistemic history of archaeological replicas, and postcolonial controversies surrounding human and animal remains in museums. Since 2024, he has been researching multisensory, inclusive perspectives on deep-sea ecology.
Research interests: multisensory museum, decolonial exhibition practice, multimodal knowledge practices, artistic research.
Research projects
- ProjectOther foundations in Germany01/2021 - 12/2022
SPS – Ausstellungsprojekt “BINDING BODIES. Perspektiven auf gebundene Füße”
Project management: Felix Sattler
- Project04/2016 - 09/2017
Exhibition: THE HEIRS TO THE THRONE – Replica knowledge
Project management: Prof. Dr. phil. Wolfgang Schäffner, Felix Sattler