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Tobias Post — Painting, digital light art and sculpture

As of September 28, 2026

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Tobias Post combines painting, digital light art and sculpture. The Bochum-based artist develops paintings, interactive installations and sculptural works from the interplay of free gesture, set rules and spatial relationships. With digital tools he has developed himself, he extends his painterly work into time and interaction. The theoretical framework is formed by his post-digital model of positing and his engagement with complexity as an artistic decision. Post leads the BBK exhibition team for IGA 2027 in Dortmund. He is regional spokesperson for the Western Ruhr at BBK Westfalen, and thus a member of its extended board, as well as a delegate to BBK NRW. His works have been shown at venues including the Westfälische Salzwelten, the Wendener Hütte and the Kokerei Hansa.

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Tobias Post is an artist from Bochum. He combines painting, digital light art and sculpture and, with digital tools he has developed himself, extends his work into movement and interaction. Post leads the BBK exhibition team for IGA 2027 in Dortmund and is regional spokesperson for the Western Ruhr at BBK Westfalen.

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Tobias Post combines painting, digital light art and sculpture in an artistic practice in which colour, form and movement reach beyond the limits of any single medium. The Bochum-based artist develops paintings, interactive installations and sculptural works from the interplay of free gesture, set rules and spatial relationships. With digital tools he has developed himself, he extends his painterly work into time and interaction: pictorial spaces change, forms rearrange themselves, and the movements of the audience become part of what happens in the work.

Alongside his own work, Post takes on curatorial and cultural-policy responsibility. He leads the BBK exhibition team for the International Garden Exhibition 2027 in Dortmund. His area of responsibility covers the exhibition projects in the compressor hall of the Kokerei Hansa, the Alte Schmiede and an administration building in Dortmund-Huckarde. Post is regional spokesperson for the Western Ruhr at BBK Westfalen and, in this role, a member of its extended board; he is also a delegate to BBK NRW. For “Giganten & Kunst” at the Kokerei Hansa he was part of the curatorial team in 2026 and at the same time showed his own works.

Post sets out the conceptual framework of his work in the “post-digital model of positing”. In it, art arises from decisions about forms, rules, gestures and connections. Art informel, concrete art and figuration serve him as points of reference for developing and examining his own work. Perception, too, plays an active part: which objects, orders or meanings come to the fore in a work depends on the chosen points of view. For Post, digital processes are a natural part of this artistic present.

One focus lies on complexity as deliberate design. Post investigates how individual forms build groups, how repetitions and deviations create rhythms and how different orders interlock. He works with concentration and reduction as well as with superimposition, contradiction and accumulation. The result is groups of works of differing character, connected by his engagement with these relationships.

There are concrete connections between the media. Colours and structures from his painting become components of digital works; digital forms are developed further as pictures and sculptural objects. The Studio and the Sculpture Garden document this ongoing work. The interplay of projected image, virtual form and physical sculpture extends his investigation of surface, space and figuration.

His installations show how closely these questions are tied to the individual work: “FLACHER RAUM” explores the shift between flat appearance and form that can be experienced in space. For “Giganten & Kunst”, Post developed the group of works “BRUTAL VERDREHT”, which takes up the rotation, compression and flow of the historic compressors at the Kokerei Hansa. “DORNENSTAUB” carries colours and structures of the painting series “VERLUST” into interactive image processes. The exhibition venue, the painterly origin and the movement of the viewers become part of the works in different ways.

Post’s exhibition activity includes, among others, the Westfälische Salzwelten in Bad Sassendorf, the Museum Wendener Hütte, the Kokerei Hansa in Dortmund, the Forum Kunst & Architektur in Essen, the Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund, the Kunstverein Duisburg, the Artothek Oberhausen and the Deutsches Elektrizitätsmuseum in Recklinghausen. His paintings have also been shown at the LWL-Museum Henrichshütte in Hattingen and at the Hoesch gasometer on Phoenix-West in Dortmund. The different museum, industrial and sacred spaces each give his works their own spatial and thematic references.

His writing accompanies his artistic practice. In texts on the post-digital model of positing, on complexity and on transparent art juries, Post deals with authorship, perception and the standards of artistic judgement. He asks how decisions in the work and in its evaluation can become visible and open to discussion.

Tobias Post was born in Bochum in 1969. He studied computer science with art as a minor subject at TU Dortmund and ended his studies early in favour of founding his own company. His many years as a software developer and entrepreneur form the technical basis of his present artistic independence. Since 2022, artistic practice has been at the centre of his work. Post is a member of BBK Westfalen and of the Werkkreis Bildender Künstler (WBK).

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Tobias Post

  • Tobias Post in his studio, a painting in the background Tobias Post in his studio, a painting in the background Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Portrait of Tobias Post, smiling, against a colourful background Portrait of Tobias Post, smiling, against a colourful background Still from the cube4arts art podcast Original · 1080 × 1080 Web · 1080 × 1080
  • Tobias Post at the easel in his studio Tobias Post at the easel in his studio Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Tobias Post at the easel, working on the series VERLUST Tobias Post at the easel, working on the series VERLUST Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Portrait of Tobias Post against a colourful background Portrait of Tobias Post against a colourful background Still from the cube4arts art podcast Original · 1080 × 1080 Web · 1080 × 1080
  • Tobias Post painting, brush in hand Tobias Post painting, brush in hand Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Tobias Post working on a large-format painting Tobias Post working on a large-format painting Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Tobias Post in profile, close to the canvas Tobias Post in profile, close to the canvas Still from “Atelier Inside”, cube4arts Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900

Exhibitions

  • Kristallbett, view 5 Farbexplosion Ferromone family festival at the Westfälische Salzwelten · 2026 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • UHRWERK – immersive work by Tobias Post in the exhibition “Zeit fließt”, Forum Kunst & Architektur Essen Forum Kunst & Architektur — Zeit fließt 70 Years of WBK — Uhrwerk · ESSEN · 2026 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • Kokerei Hansa — Giants and Art Kokerei Hansa — Giants and Art Kokerei Hansa — Compressor Hall · DORTMUND · 2026 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • Museum Wendener Hütte Museum Wendener Hütte Synthesis — BBK Westfalen · 2026 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • Museum Wendener Hütte — Mill Day Museum Wendener Hütte — Mill Day Mill Day — Flacher Raum · 2026 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • cube4dev EXHIBITIONS Museum Westfälische Salzwelten DIE FALTUNG · 2025 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • The German Museum of Electricity The German Museum of Electricity Bruchkante Konkret · ELEKTRIZITÄTSMUSEUM · 2025 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067
  • Kunstverein Duisburg Kunstverein Duisburg Open Studio · 2025 · Installation view Original · 1920 × 1280 Web · 1600 × 1067

Studio

  • Sculpt – Würfelringe – Two cube rings around a core Sculpt – Würfelringe 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt – Kugelringe – Two sphere rings in motion Sculpt – Kugelringe 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Color – Kugelschläuche – Chains of spheres around a column of cubes Sculpt Color – Kugelschläuche 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Color – Kreisel – Cube rings around a core of spheres Sculpt Color – Kreisel 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Dark – Ringkern – Black on white Sculpt Dark – Ringkern 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Dark – Perlenturm – Black on white Sculpt Dark – Perlenturm 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Dark Color – Perlenturm – A coloured tower Sculpt Dark Color – Perlenturm 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sculpt Dark Color – Kugelschläuche – A coloured column Sculpt Dark Color – Kugelschläuche 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Spalten – The basic movement: up and down in tracks Spalten 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Takt – Movement in steps Takt 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Leere – One or two objects – the ground beneath carries the image Leere 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sphere – Spalten – The basic movement: lanes around the sphere Sphere – Spalten 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sphere – Versatz – Phase-shifted lanes, diagonals emerge Sphere – Versatz 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Sphere – Schwelle – A halt at one point, then onwards Sphere – Schwelle 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Ring – Schiene – Bands all round Ring – Schiene 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900
  • Ring – Versatz – Courtyards and offset lanes Ring – Versatz 2026 · View of the work, digital real-time graphics Original · 1920 × 1080 Web · 1600 × 900

Facts and milestones

Roles

Curatorial projects

  • 2027 · In preparationIGA 2027Nature & Art — How the future grows · Head of the BBK exhibition team
  • 2026 · CompletedGiganten & KunstCuratorial team · Group exhibition of BBK Westfalen · Kokerei Hansa, Dortmund

Memberships

  • since 2026WBK e.V.Admitted unanimously as a member of the Werkkreis Bildender Künstler
  • since 2025BBK Westfalen e.V.Bundesverband Bildender Künstler*innen Westfalen, admitted unanimously
  • VERA e.V.Verband für Ausstellungsgestaltung — association for exhibition design
  • VG Bild-Kunst

Biography

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