About KUENZELZELLER

In the practice of KUENZELZELLER, Bildkreation means composing imagery by interrogating image-generating systems.

The work moves through the compressed layers of collective visual memory: digital archives, shared imagery, the face at closest range. The true surface of skin, proximity, the point where the individual and the collective converge — this is the territory. I approach every image as a print: a document beyond editing. A print states: this was a condition of seeing, of depicting.

Analogue sensibility meets algorithmic process. Working with AI tools feels less like production and more like study: I formulate, ask, draw out what the system knows and something forms in the exchange. I arrange, shift, refine. Framing, colour, texture, selection, sequencing. What begins in the digital resolves, finally, into a physical object. More on this topic here.

"Work that exists on the boundary between the deeply human and the almost non-human."

About Fabian

Fabian Künzel-Zeller is a German visual artist.

Trained as a graphic designer, studied fashion design, and worked in London, Stockholm, Berlin, and Leipzig in design and brand communication.

Select collaborations — for interiors, publications, or institutions — are considered on inquiry.