“My artistic practice is based on a process-oriented approach to action, materiality, and corporeality. My motivation is rooted in questions of perception, tactile experience, and the viewer’s presence in space. I’m interested in the themes of the inseparability of naturalness/nature and artificiality, humanity’s technological interventions in nature, and the repercussions of the virtual world. How have the relationships between object, viewer, and space changed as a consequence of experiences with virtual spaces? Occasionally, the audience is invited to take an active role, constituting the works with their physical movement and mental projections. This approach is pursued across various artistic mediums, ranging from sculptures, large-scale installations, and videos to processual environments. My primary focus lies in exploring the structure of materials, particles, sediment, and density, as evidenced by an ongoing engagement with the formation of imagery and the ambiguity of meaning. Alongside objects asserting themselves in three-dimensional space, performative approaches, minimal and maximal interventions play a role in inducting the viewer into a “space of seeing.” My works open up spaces of experience in which the viewer can immerse themselves in their perception”.

In Messner’s work, intellectual processes find their expression in a highly diverse range of artistic means. Born in Bolzano Italy, lives in Berlin and Munich Germany. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Éc le nationale supérieure des Beauxarts in Paris. His works have been exhibited at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich 2022, Museum im Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd 2021, Ludwigforum Aachen, (2019) Bienal de Curitiba (2019), Neues Museum Nürnberg (2018), Museion, Bolzano (2017), Stadtmuseum Munich (2017), Yarat Contemporary Art Space, Baku, (2017) at Fei Contemporary Art Center Shanghai (2013), ERES Foundation in Munich (2016). as well as Galeria Foksal in Warsaw (2011). His works are part of public and private collections, including the Collection of the Federal Government Bonn, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Collection of the Bundestag Berlin in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Museion Bolzano, Stadtmuseum Munich.