Fabian Raphael Sokolowski (b. 1997, Würzburg) lives and works in Düsseldorf. His work examines the tension between positive and negative freedom — between collectively constructed agency and the mere absence of constraint. He is interested in how images produce responsibility: how they make ecological, political and economic entanglements perceptible, and how they shape the conditions under which perception becomes political.

His process-oriented practice moves between painting, installation, sound, light and digital imagery. He understands these media not as isolated forms but as interrelated systems. Materials and motifs drawn from different geographic and cultural contexts — from environmental phenomena to industrial and ritual structures — are brought into relation. Painting expands into space, images are layered, printed, disrupted and overpainted; surfaces develop as fields in which natural, technological and social processes intersect.

Alongside his artistic work, Sokolowski is active as a curator, theorist and lecturer. Trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, his practice is informed by discourse in sociology, philosophy and cultural policy. Across his projects, he approaches art as a form of inquiry — one that asks how collective responsibility and new forms of being-together can be articulated under contemporary conditions.