THOUGHTS AND PRACTICE
Fabian Faylona is a Filipino-German freelance artist and designer based in Berlin. His interdisciplinary practice ranges from concept development to hands-on spatial design projects, as well as artistic interventions and research of local environments.
As part of his bachelor's degree in Industrial Design he specialized in activating local living environments through participatory formats, such as the collective construction of public spaces. He facilitates building and design workshops centered around topics of cooperation, cohabitation and sustainability. The integration of site-specific resources and the experimentation with material qualities play a crucial role in his participatory formats as well as his own design practice.
His artistic research draws from phenomenology, environmental humanities and post-colonial theory. It is shaped by questions regarding the necessity of categorical boundaries, limits of representation, subaltern agency and the possibility of art to mediate through hegemonic imbalances of power. This ongoing exploration has so far manifested itself in the shape of spatial installations, sculptures and objects as well as a series of photographs, drawings and publications.
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RESUME
2022 October – Ongoing
M.A. Art in Context // University of the Arts, Berlin
2024 June – August
Exhibition // 'Alte Schule' Gallery, Adlershof, Berlin
2024 June – July
Art Mediation // Alte Schule Gallery, Berlin
2024 June
Activation // Radical Playgrounds, Gropius Bau
2024 June
Artistic Direction // Summer Camp, S27, Berlin
2024 April – May
Artistic Direction // Basic Lab, S27, Berlin
2023 July
Internship // ConstructLab, Belgium
2023 July
Publication // Awhām Magazin, Berlin
2023 April – September
Exhibition // Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Pforzheim
2022 April
Art Residency // Neubad, Lucerne
2021 July – August
Integrative Furniture Workshop // S27, Berlin
2020 September – December
Design Residency // Garden X, Portugal
2020 June – August
'Fidelio' Collaboration // Theater Pforzheim
2019 October – 2020 August
A Fair Land Pforzheim // Pforzheim University
2019 October – 2020 August
Design Drawing Teacher // Pforzheim University
2019 Juli
B.A. Industrial Design // Pforzheim University
2018 October – 2019 October
Working Student // Bosch 'Platform 12', Renningen
2018 June – October
Internship // Abertausend, Stuttgart
2018 March – June
Internship // Bosch 'Platform 12', Renningen
2017 February – July