Protey Temen
Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist.

Protey Temen’s practice is centered around using drawings, videos, books, and installations to create abstract visuals that explore and visualize the intersections between science and visual data. By utilizing the poetry of everyday life processes, he can create a deeper understanding and connection to the world around us. He sees science as a universal language, expressed through the synthetic methods of written text, calculations, and drawing. The goal of his practice is to bridge the gap between science and everyday life, encouraging viewers to question their understanding of the world and their place in it.

 

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“The essential topic that Protey Temen works with is researching the symbolical environment and analyzing it with the plastic language of abstract art. From pagan myths to the method of “sur-ritualism” discovered by him, Protey approaches step-by-step a quasi-scientific way of interpreting the world. What is the information and how can it be processed, what physical material is used in the composition of a particular object, why do we see a spot and perceive a symbol in a definite way, how do we influence our surroundings in order to execute various processes? All of these questions may be conventionally laid into the sphere of the sensitive, reflexive personal experience – facts that cannot be checked are codified and converted into common popular knowledge by Protey. To prove his hypotheses, he explains his own intuitive discoveries about the world’s structure by using the approach and verbal/visual glossary of a quantitative scientist. The artist packs these pieces of knowledge into text, illustrative materials, schemes, and visual aids as he returns the aesthetic focus to a theory’s dry language. The scientific process usually implies the abandonment of aesthetics in favor of a didactic understanding of the meaning. Protey combines the emotional experience and he manifests to us as spectators and students of his “Inner School of Open Studies” the similarity of fundamental strategies of the scientific approach and art practices aimed at the revelation of the only true and faithful version of reality.” — Introduction by Yulya Yusma

Projects in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, Mantova, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, Seoul, Sofia, Sydney, São Paulo,  Turino, Venice, Verona

 

List of Exhibitions
Solo
“Soft Links”, Galerie Watson, Paper Positions, Berlin, Germany, 2023
“Now. After. What”, Corraini Gallery, ARTISSIMA Art Fair, Torino, Italy, 2021
“Joint Studies”, Galleria Maurizio Corraini, Mantova, Italy, 2021
“Probability of Chance”, Corraini Gallery Bookstore, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMBo), Bologna, Italy, 2020
Kasseler Woche der Museen, Trafohaus, Kassel, Germany, 2020
“Total Timeline”, Corraini Gallery, ArtVerona, Verona, Italy, 2019
“Total Timeline”, Corraini Gallery, +121, Milan, Italy, 2019
“Everything is Gonna Be Fine”, Social Club Creative Space, Los Angeles, California, 2018
Pop-up exhibition and residency, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2018
“Shaders”, Open Studio, Berlin, Germany, 2009
“Breakfast Heroes”, Open Studio, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Group
“Unknown Unknowns”, 23rd Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy, 2022—2023
Exhibition 2, The Ballery Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2023
The Sensation of Biting a Peach, ENTKUNSTKUNG & Herwig Scherabor, Dock 11, Berlin, Germany, 2022
“Uncertain Praxis”, CADAF (Contemporary and Digital Art Fair), New York, USA, 2019
Aperto Raum, Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM / transmediale, Berlin, Germany, 2019
ARTE LUCE, extended mind, Light Art Weekend, Alte Münze Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2018
First Person exhibition / Magazijn, Amsterdam Art Weekend, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017
“Horror Vacui”, Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2018
“Knowledge of”, with Lucas Gutierrez, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2017
META – The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, 180 Creative Camp, Abrantes, Portugal, 2014
“Passion the Movie”, Nova Festival, Auditório MIS, Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2012
Internet Pavilion, Bring Your Own Beamer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2011

Talks & Publications
Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context, Max Planck Institute, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany, 2022
Slanted Magazine #34—Europe, Slanted Publishers, Germany, 2019—2020
ARTE LUCE, extended mind, Light Art Weekend, catalog, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Flaneur Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Performativer Dialog, Protey Temen & Fabian Saul, Aperto Raum, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Artworks exhibition, FLANEUR Magazine, Berlin, Germany, 2017
FLANEUR Magazine, Issue 06, Berlin, Germany, 2017
Berlin Independents Guide 3Pigs, Berlin, Germany, 2017
Los Logos 6, Gestalten, Germany, 2012
Porträt der Woche, Page Online, Germany, 2011
Precursor: The Creativity Watchlist, Gestalten, Germany, 2011
Pictoplasma Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, 2009

Full List of Exhibitions