BIO/CV
Mariangela Pfahler is a German multidisciplinary artist born in 1998.
She is a Fine Arts graduate from the Düsseldorf Art Academy, Germany, where she studied between 2016 and 2021 and still lives and works there today. Her artistic practice includes painting, photography, graphic design, video art and performance.
Her particular interest lies in the visual language of abstraction, and how it is perceived and
interpreted.
Her painting and graphic design practice primarily engages with the most basic elements of
image making: Line, Color and Space. Through a diverse range of abstract compositions, she
analyses how these elements interact together to create an image, and how that image can then be
interpreted and read. She often works in series, where the same or similar versions of a work, with slight
changes in different parameters can then be compared with each other.
Her photographic practice seeks to use the transformational possibilities of the photographic medium,
to create images which explore the boundary between what is perceived as natural and unnatural.
In her photographs, a chosen subject matter can appear both as what it actually depicts, as well as something completelly different.
Through her deep understanding and command of abstraction, she creates images which bear
a distinctly unique, otherworldy appearance and aesthetic, simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar.
Sometimes, she uses the editing process to heighten this duality, and create images that blur the boundary between what is perceived as photography, and digitally generated imagery.
She has exhibited her work nationally in her country of birth, Germany, as well as internationally, in Greece, the UK, Switzerland and Serbia.
She does not work with AI in any part of the process to create any of her works.
For inquiries contact: mar1pfa@hotmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariangela_pf_mp/
Academic Education
2016 – 2021
Fine art
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, class of Prof. Marcel Odenbach
2017 - 2018
Guest student at class of Prof. Johannes Paul Räther for the performative arts
Exhibitions/ Collaborations
2016
„National Students’ Art Exhibition“, Mall Galleries, London
2018
Collaboration with fashion label „Funktion Schnitt,“ for T-shirt design of the „Re:Cycled: The Overstock Collection“ collection
Window display visual merchandising for Hermès, Düsseldorf
2019
“Animationen- Ein Film Programm und zwei loopende Projektionen”, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2022
„Die Grosse“, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
„Neon Sun: Principles of Light“, Raum für Kunst B10B/6, Düsseldorf
„POV“, BIAGOSCH x entrance, Düsseldorf
„Muse Photography Awards“, Silver Award
2023
„Art Artist“, Düsseldorf
„Absolvent*innen 2021-2022“, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf
„Imacres Awards“ Photography competition – Silver Award
2024
„B&W Athens Photography“, Serafio, Athens
“Chania International Photo Festival”, Chania, Crete
“LIGHT ROOM”, Rossart Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2025
"White", Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
„B&W Athens Photography“, Serafio, Athens
"dream, dream, dreaming on holidays", Radisson Collection Old Mill Hotel, Belgrade
„Movement and Light“, GISELA-Freier Kunstraum Lichtenberg, Berlin
„Chania International Photo festival “, Crete
"Moments of Color", Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
„Beyond the Horizon: Imagining the Unreachable“, Radisson Collection Old Mill Hotel, Belgrade
„Trieste Photo Days 2025“- Urban Animals, Sala U. Veruda, Italy
„Northernness“- Millepiani, Rome, Italy
„UP25“, MUSEC Museo delle Culture, Lugano, Switzerland
2026
„B&W Athens Photography“, “Serafio City of Athens”, Athens
„The Motif Collective“, „Minimalism“- Shortlist
„Annual Photography Awards“, „Fine Art“- Shortlist
„HOME-S“,Kapralos Museum, Agrinio, Greece
“Street Photography”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
“Red”, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens
“B&W International Photo Awards” - „Abstract Vision“, Honourable Mention
„Chania International Photo festival “, Crete
"Palaio Faliro Athens Riviera Photo Festival", Palaio Faliro City Hall Cultural Venue, Athens
“Between Books”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf