Pascal Marcel Dreier (he/they) explores and narrates more-than-human stories. To do this, they combine aspects of aesthetic research with activist, forensic, and ethnographic methods.
They are a fellow of the Multispecies Studio, a member of Minding Animals Germany, a contributor at OktoLab, and part of the German Society for Media Studies. Pascal is an alumnus of the German National Academic Foundation where they co-organized the foundation's first academic workshop on artistic research "Artistic Research und das Forschen an den Dingen". In 2022, they co-founded the non-profit research studio TRACES Studio for Creative Investigation gGmbH.
Pascal teaches and conducts workshops and lectures at universities and art institutions globally, including the University of Cambridge, the University of Western Australia, University of Siegen, and the Köln International School of Design.
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2023, ‘De Profundis’, Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen, DE
2022, Talk to me: Other Histories of Nature, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE
2022, At the Edge of Safehouse, Safehouse, London, UK
2021, ‘Live Stock / Live Animals’, KHM Open, Cologne, DE
2020, ‘Octopus Encounters: An Immersive Library of Octopus Aesthetics’, Glasmoog, Cologne, DE
2020, ‘Perron Art Price’, Stadt Galerie Frankenthal, DE
2019, ‘Goodbye Cruel World, it’s Over’, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf
2019, ‘Animal Ludens’, Next-Level Festival for Games, Zollverein Essen, DE
2019, ‘Practices of Approximation’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE
2019, ‘we, animals: multispecies narrations’, MEINBLAU Berlin, DE