David Goldberg (Berlin/Munich) explores how contemporary systems shape perception and collective imagination. In his video works, installations, and performances, he examines the tension between technological progress and ethical responsibility, between economic growth and ecological necessity. His practice investigates how acceleration and efficiency, once promises of advancement, have turned into forces of disconnection. Drawing on traces of past ideologies and aesthetic residues, Goldberg reveals how patterns of control and belief persist within today’s visual and digital cultures. A central concern of his work is the use of narrative structures instead of statistical forms of communication—employing story and embodiment to translate abstract systems into perceptible experience. By doing so, he exposes their constructed nature and invites contemplation on how perception is guided, shaped, and reinforced by the systems that produce it.
SELECTED LIST OF WORKS & PERFORMANCES
11.04 - 26.04. 2014: Mycel / Performancee / Maximilliansforum / Munich / DE
26.7.2016 - 28.08.2016: Phaceta / Installation / Galerie der Künstler / Munich / DE
30.09.2016: Phoenix / X Super Plus / Performance / Nuit Blanche / Paris / FR
29.10.2016: Noise Signal Silence Festival / Performance / Munich / DE
18.11.2016: Metalage Installation / X Ivo Rick, Jonas Friedlich / Academy Gallery / Munich / DE
24.02.2017: Reclaimed Empire / X Adam Putnam / Performance / Kunstverein Munich / DE
03.05.2018: Ficciones / Performance / X Manuela De La Borde / Oberhausener Filmfestival / DE
01.08 2019: Acud Mach Neu / Performance / Berlin / DE
24.08.2019: Monta / Performance / St Petersbourgh / RU
27.02.2020: Berghain Säule / Performance / Berlin / DE
17 - 21.06.21: DeSchool / Installation / X Cloudgaenger / Amsterdam / NLD
03.07.2021: Common Sense / Performative Installation / Polyphon Festival / Gera / DE
22.09.2021: Rrouine / Performance / Basel / SW
16.06.2022: Celestial Random / Installation / Collegium Hungaricum / Berlin / DE
24.07.2022: SVS Collisions / Installation / Muffatwerk / Munich / DE
27.03.2023: Assemblage / VIdeo Works /X OBJ Studio / Saas Fee Pavilion / Frankfurt / DE
20.07.2023: (ANTI-)KÖRPER / Music&Composition / X Nicola Kötterl / Kunstpavilion / Munich / DE
08-13.02.2024: De:Buff / Installation / AdbK / Munich / DE
04.05.2024: Soft Errors / Installation / Various Others / Nebyula / Munich / DE
15.06.2024: Fragments Of Sonic Extinction Festival / Performance / Zirka Space / Munich DE
08.08.2024: Rooms In Rooms / Installation / Ear Ear Space / Munich / DE
18 - 19.07.2025: Relapse / Performance / X Deva Schubert / Lothringer Halle 13 / Munich DE
19 - 21.09.2025: Protect Yourself / Video Works / X Caner Akdeniz / Schwere Reiter / Munich DE
EDUCATION
2016 - 2024 Diplom Freie Kunst & Bildhauerei / Klasse Olaf Nicolai / Akademie der bildenden Künste / Munich / DE
2018 -2022 Master Soundstudies & Sonic Arts / Universität der Künste / Berlin / DE
2014 - 2015 International Munich Art Lab / IMAL / Munich / DE
2011 - 2013 Sabel / Productdesign / Berlin / DE
2008 - 2010 SAE School of Audioengineering / Berlin / DE
RESIDENCIES
15.08 - 30.08.2016: 4D Spatial Sound Institute / Residency / Budapest / HU
01.08.2018 SVS / Residency / Córtex Frontal Arraiolos / PRT
28.07- 08.08.2021: SVS Collisions / Residency / Underground Research Lab Canfranc / ESP
FUNDINGS
2021 - Ghosts of Now / Project Funding / VFDBK
2024 - Relapse / Project Funding / VFDBK
2025 - Soma Festival / Co - Production for Performance / Lothr13