Tobias Piero Dohm is an artist whose performances and installations invite audiences into ephemeral worlds – spaces where body, object, and environment converge to make time tangible as a physical and sensory phenomenon. He creates fragile visual landscapes using natural materials – most notably sand – in which the fleeting and the unspeakable can take shape. His pieces unfold as performative environments that make visible the invisible dynamics between self, others, and the surrounding world – inviting audiences to sense the silent transitions between moments and places.

“I see the sea from behind, and the horizon in front of it.”

Tobias’ work is an invitation to all people – whether they come as audience with a culturally sophisticated eye, festival visitors, gallery guests, fellow artists, or simply as chance passengers on a low-threshold approach – best with an open gaze like a sunflower and a curiosity to become explorers. He creates spaces in which the audience is not merely watching, but invited to experience temporal and spatial relationships through the body, the senses, and thought. Experiences designed to resonate beyond the moment – opening space for imagination, reflection, and shared wonder.

Rooted in a biographically shaped journey through movement, resilience, healing, and transformation, Tobias combines self-developed techniques with research-driven methods. His artistic approach is characterized by visual reduction and poetic materiality: whether in the rhythms of contemporary juggling and dance or in the subtle interplay of sculptural forms, experiences are condensed into simple, powerful gestures. In these intimate yet universal spaces, bodies and objects become mirrors – negotiating balance, tension, and release – and inviting reflection on how we carry time within us.

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

SOLO WORK Works that combine performative composition, spatial intervention, and material research. Through his language — rooted in contemporary juggling, object manipulation and enriched by installation and visual art — ephemeral experiential environments emerge: spaces where movement, objects and materials condense into immediate 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

I am interested in space not just as architecture, but as lived experience – and in material as a bearer of time: between memory and action, between what was and what is becoming; between here and now, in the moment, in the body, in space. Within choreographed compositions, fragile visual worlds unfold - ephemeral and sensual - where time becomes tangible through its breaking, falling, stretching and repetition.

My starting point is often a state of floating, stumbling, decaying, flowing – or simply stillness: a space where (self-) dissolution and connection coexist before artistic transformation takes shape.

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 my body through space.

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