Tobias Piero Dohm is an interdisciplinary artist exploring the relationship between body, object, space, and the perception of time as a physical and sensory phenomenon. Using natural materials such as sand, he creates ephemeral visual worlds where the fleeting and the unspeakable become tangible. His works open performative spaces that reveal the invisible and invite audiences to sensuously experience their connection to time and space.

His artistic approach is grounded in a biographically shaped exploration of movement, resilience, healing, and transformation. Combining self-taught methods with research-driven practices, he focuses on visual reduction, poetic materiality, and the expressive potential of the body.

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
Chamäleon Berlin · PACT Zollverein · schloss bröllin e.V. · Le Château de Monthelon · Cirko Helsinki
Fonds Darstellende Künste · Goethe-Institut · Berlin Senate · Landesverband Freie Darstellende Künste NRW

SOLO WORK Works that combine performative composition, spatial intervention, and material research. Through a self-developed formal language that is rooted in contemporary juggling, visual art, and installation, ephemeral visual and experiential spaces emerge – spaces where movement, objects, and materials condense into sensory experiences of space and time.

ENSEMBLE WORK
Member of the Katakomben Collective – Center for Performing Arts.
Performer in the ensemble Critical Mess (directed by Stefan Sing).
Continous collaboration, exchange, and laboratory work with international artists and colleagues.

EDUCATION
M.Ed. in Physical and Motor Development, Sports Science, and Educational Science; studies in Geography (University of Cologne & German Sport University).
Artistic programs: École de Cirque Baltazar (Montpellier) · Zentrum für Bewegte Kunst (Berlin) · Stockholm University of the Arts · Workshops · Masterclasses · Laboratories · Performance and pedagogical projects across Europe and internationally (incl. Senegal, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, New Zealand). And: Life itself.

BETWEEN SPACES

My work moves between memory and action, between what was and what is created, between here and elsewhere — in the moment, in the body, in space.
I am interested in space not just as architecture, but as experience; and in material as a bearer of time: sand, objects, movement.
Within choreographed compositions, fragile visual worlds unfold — ephemeral and sensual.
Time becomes tangible when it breaks, falls, or repeats itself.

Often, my starting point is a state of floating, stumbling, decaying, or simply resting.
Juggling is not an act of control for me, but a way to find freedom in the body — connecting brain hemispheres, intuition, and presence.
A rhythm that guides me through space.

I work in the in-between — between human, nature, and time; between material, perception, and transformation; between the visible, deep sensitivity, and the knowledge that lives in the body.

Silent vibration. Movement. Presence.