Raphaela Vogel

Raphaela Vogel (b. 1988, Nuremberg, Germany) Raphaela Vogel studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. She has been a visiting professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe and is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Raphaela Vogel’s practice is installation-based, fusing sculpture, sound, and film, often appearing in iterations of the latter as herself. Vogel plays with varied media and materials to generate energy and tension, finding uncanny harmonies among seemingly disparate source imagery. Through her works, Vogel pushes the viewer into disruptive, fantastical territories. Raphaela Vogel’s debut exhibition with Petzel, titled In the Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox? , was on view in January 2024, and was complemented by an artist talk and live performance event at the Goethe-Institut New York. Vogel was included in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition The Milk of Dreams , curated by Cecilia Alemani, and has had recent solo exhibitions at institutions such as Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2025); Kunsthalle Gießen, Gießen (2024); Centre d’art contemporain – la synagogue de Delme, Delme (2024); Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (2024); De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg (2023); Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2023); Kleiner Wasserspeicher, Berlin (2021); Neues Museum, Nürnberg (2020); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2019); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019); Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren (2018); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2018); Kunstpalais, Erlangen (2018); Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster (2016); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2015); among others. Vogel's works have also been acquired by select institutions, including Centraal Museum, Utrecht and Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht. Raphaela Vogel lives and works in Berlin, Germany. "Almost a decade on from her meteoric debut, Vogel’s work remains as perplexing as it is fascinating. Even a shallow dip into Vogel’s wildly varied oeuvre – room-size metal frames draped with painted animal skins; dizzying videos starring the artist (and sometimes her dog) shot with a 360-degree camera; monumental sculptures featuring huge portable toilets or giraffes tethered to spliced-open genitals – reveals that she can’t be slotted into the canon’s existing pigeonholes. ‘I’m interested in entertaining myself,’ she said during one of our encounters in Berlin this winter, without irony or arrogance. ‘Or creating a first draft of a world.’" —Kimberly Bradley, "Raphaela Vogel," Frieze, April 2023