Felix Sattler

2024
• Hörner/Antlfinger: Parrot Terristories, Tieranatomisches Theater

2022 & 2023
• UnBinding Bodies. Lotos Shoes and Corset — co-curated with Jasmin Mersmann and Evke Rulffes, MARKK – Museum am Rothenbaum Künste und Kulturen (Hamburg) & Tieranatomisches Theater

2022
• DAOULA | sheen. West African Wild Silk on Its Way — co-curated with Karin Krauthausen and Laurence Douny, Tieranatomisches Theater

2019 – present
• Meshwork of Things: The Sammlungsschaufenster of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin — co-curated with Sarah Becker and Jessica Korp, Tieranatomisches Theater

2018
• The Dead, as far as [    ] can remember, Tieranatomisches Theater

2017
• Replica Knowledge. An Archaeology of the Multiple Past — co-curated with Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw, Tieranatomisches Theater

2016
• Orobates. Reanimated after 300 million years — project lead together with John Nyakatura, Michael Ott, and Matthias Schmitt, Phyletisches Museum (Jena) & Tieranatomisches Theater

2015, 2017 & 2021
• Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag: SINUS, SYNTH & Helmholtz VOOCAAL, Tieranatomisches Theater

2015
• More of Less. The longing for simplicity and the desire for excess — curated by EXPONENTEN (Nina Wiedemeyer and Felix Sattler), Vögele Kulturzentrum (Pfäffikon/SZ)

2014
• Our Animals (Unsere Tiere) — co-curated with Michael Fehr, Frank Steinheimer, and Renate Schafberg, Tieranatomisches Theater

2010
• Domestication, Phyletisches Museum (Jena)

2008/09
• Diatomeen – Formensinn (Diatoms – The Sense of Form), Phyletisches Museum (Jena)

Felix Sattler is a curator, artist, and museum researcher. Since 2013, he has directed the TA T – Tieranatomisches Theater at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, a venue and laboratory for aesthetic knowledge practices. Across more than 40 international exhibitions, his work has engaged with topics such as the art and design history of unicellular algae, the epistemic history of archaeological replicas, and postcolonial controversies surrounding human and animal remains in museums. Since 2024, he has been researching multisensory, inclusive perspectives on deep-sea ecology.

Research interests: multisensory museum, decolonial exhibition practice, multimodal knowledge practices, artistic research.