working is the beginning of all evil

26.10. – 07.12.24

On working is the beginning of all evil

“Everything that sets people in motion has to pass through their heads. But what form it takes in this head depends very much on the circumstances. It is quite possible to be a stockbroker and a socialist at the same time,” Friedrich Engels once wrote. Ferdinand Dölberg’s work lets the mind run - and thus fits in seamlessly. Into this broken world, full of contradictory longings, identity concepts and interpretative sovereignties, collapsing societies and ambivalent simultaneities.

– Hilka Dirks

Ferdinand Dölberg was born 1998 in Eisenach, Germany, studied fine arts until 2024 at the UdK Berlin under Prof. Thomas Zipp. Dölberg's works focus on questions about his own position within social structures, interpersonal relationships and the questioning of individuality. Fictional figures, mask-like faces and absurd body shapes, alongside changing gender identities, are the main subject of his paintings and drawings.