Fabian Oefner investigates reality as a construct — fabricating moments that never existed, pushing objects to the edge of recognition, and reconstructing the past through the precision of photography and the distortions of memory.

His practice begins with a paradox: the more convincingly something appears before us, the less stable its reality becomes. Working through fragmentation, suspension, and reassembly, he stages events that never occurred, gives time physical form, and rebuilds the past from what memory omits rather than what it preserves.

Across these works, reality is never fixed; it is fabricated, translated, remembered, and rebuilt from what remains.

Selected Exhibitions

2025 — Extract, ETH Zurich, Zurich
2024 — Un monde en mouvement, Musée Historique, Lausanne
2018 — Momentum, Sharjah Center of the Arts, Sharjah

Publications

2025 — L. Gamwell, Conjuring the Void: The Art of Black Holes, MIT Press, Cambridge
2023 — A. Varma, Invisible Wonders, National Geographic Books, Washington, D.C.
2016 — J. Velasco and S. Velasco, Look Inside, Gestalten, Berlin

Film

2017 — V. Jalongo, The Sense of Beauty, Amka Films