Was Jetzt Ist – 30 Jahre Raketenstation Hombroich
Encounters at International House New York
HEAT — Summer Exhibition at Galerie Burster, Berlin
On the Threshold — Salon Exhibition, Old Greenwich, CT
Guest Lecture at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD)
Poetry in Business — Guest Lecture at TGM Vienna
Naming and Being: Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2026)
NFM (News Finds Me)
Liminal Spaces: An Exhibition on the Edge of Transformation at International House New York
Dream Factories — Exploring the Future of Production Architecture in Germany (Prestel, 2025)
ISCP at Almine Rech Gallery With Works by David Byrne, Ai Weiwei, Elias Wessel and More
Curator Daniela Yvonne Baumann on Elias Wessel: Device
Anemoia Engages Naturally With the Environment of Raketenstation Hombroich
Open Studio at Raketenstation Hombroich
Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern Publishes Exhibition Catalogue: Transformationen
Guest Artist at Stiftung Insel Hombroich
Chunbum Park: A Thesis on Social Media’s Bastardization of the Holy and the Sacred
Casey Killoran Performs a Dadaist Reading From Elias Wessel’s Textfetzen [Scraps of Text]
It’s Complicated Named a Must-See in Artforum’s Artguide
Tique Shares Its Selection of Interesting Exhibitions Worldwide
Yale University Radio: Brainard Carey in Conversation With Elias Wessel
Exposing Social Media — Exhibition Review in Two Coats of Paint
Picture Theory Presents Elias Wessel: It’s Complicated
Finalists of the 2024 Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts Announced
Transformationen — Exhibition at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
Nominee for the Palatinate Prize for Fine Arts 2024
Artist Talk at the AXA Art Collection in Cologne
Artists at Work: Aesthetics of Conflict — Elias Wessel With Matt Saunders at ISCP
International House Alumni Event: Artist Elias Wessel ’05 Studio Tour
Fall Open Studios at International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Cybernetic Auditive Association — Lecture Performance at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Science Week
Would You Share Your Gold Medal? Exhibition at the School of Visual Arts, New York
Exhibition Trailer: Delirious Images – Photographs for the Next Society, Kunstsammlung Willy-Brandt-Haus
Space Invaders — Summer Open House at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Artist Residency at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP)
Photoszene Festival Cologne: BEISTE_Satellite Presents the Exhibition PULSAR
The Next Society — Kulturforum Hosts Culture Talk Between Carsten Brosda and Elias Wessel
Aesthetics of Conflict — First Comprehensive Monograph Published by Verlag Kettler
Sonic Interventions: Listen to the New Podcast Stimmbezirke by Freie Universität Berlin
Delirious Images – Fotografien für die nächste Gesellschaft [Photographs for the Next Society]
European Month of Photography Berlin: Aktionstag Fotografie at Willy-Brandt-Haus
New Article by Ruth Horak in Eikon Issue #121
Can Pictures Speak? An Intermedial Experience at the Intersection of Art, Music and Technology
Exhibition Film: It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art by Edna Luise Biesold at 1014 New York
Textfetzen — Review by Thomas Ballhausen in Eikon #120
Matt Saunders: Connoisseur of Chaos: Wessel’s Broken Picture Space
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums
Reality, Technology and Art — Panel Discussion at 1014 New York
Armory Week Viewing at 1014 With It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art
1014 New York Presents It’s Complicated, Is Possibly Art
Netz, du hast das Bild gestohlen, gib es wieder her! [Net, You Stole the Picture, Give It Back!]
Textfetzen. It’s Complicated: Texte aus einem a/sozialen Netzwerk 2019–2021. Ist möglicherweise Kunst
zu mir und zu dir – Franz Jyrch, Maria Sainz Rueda, Elias Wessel
Gwyneira Isaac: Mind the Gap. Elias Wessel’s Ereignishorizonte and the Thermodynamics of TikTok
Migrating Things – Objects Under the Influence
Ruth Horak: The Screen Is Never Empty
Alina Girshovich: This Is Art: A Perpetually Relevant Response
Virtual Tour: I Don’t Care. I Love My Phone
Nikolaus Kratzer: Images Through an Algorithmic Lens: On the Visualization of Reality
Christoph Neuberger: The Way Back From the Digital to the Analog
Axel Gelfert: The Newsfeed as an Algorithmic Palimpsest
Hans-Christian von Herrmann: Unsubstantiated Presence – Can Elias Wessel’s Textfetzen Be Read?
Andreas Brenne: Fotografien für die nächste Gesellschaft [Photographs for the Next Society]
Hans-Jürgen Herschel: Variations on Die Freude am Rest [The Joy in What Remains]
Investigations Into the Interrelationships of the Digital, Painting, and Photography
Schöne neue Welt – The Moving Images Are Extraordinary Things
Exhibition Catalogue: Das Objekt im Fokus. Fotografie aus der Sammlung SpallArt
To Be Named – The Body. Cultural Politics of Naming and Being Named
Bärbel Kopplin: Photography as Experimental Arrangement and Thought Process
Spallart Collection Acquires Works From Images Through an Algorithmic Lens
Kunstsammlung des Deutschen Bundestages [Art Collection of the German Bundestag]
Ist möglicherweise Kunst — Audio Works Supported by the Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate for Culture
I Don’t Care. I Love My Phone. Kunstsammlung SAP Presents Works From 2017–2020
Exhibition Film Released by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris
Beyond the Digital Promise: Virtual Communities and Democracy in Recent Contemporary History
Direkte Auktion – The Art Scene Helps Itself
Eyes on the Object: The Spallart Collection Presents Selected Works From Its Rich Collection
Frances Guerin Explores the Intersection of Aesthetics and Social Politics at Palais Beauharnais
Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate for Culture Supports Schöne neue Welt Series
The Digital Space Never Forgets: Amnesty International Reports on Die Summe meiner Daten
Participating From a Distance With Images Through an Algorithmic Lens
Maltreating Dozens of Smartphones Turns Into Schöne neue Welt
Artists Talk on Art — Elias Wessel in Conversation With Peter Duhon
Guided Tours of History of Touches at Palais Beauharnais
Response in a Visual Language to the Tension Between Fascination, Wonder and Anxiety
Dataism: The Quantifiable Human. In Cooperation With Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris Publishes Exhibition Catalogue
Elias Wessel: La somme de mes données at Palais Beauharnais, Paris
Stephan Berg Discovers Traces of the Body Within Die Summe meiner Daten
Exhibition Catalogue: I Am All of Glass
I Am All of Glass – Marianne Brandt and the Art of Glass Today
Tagesschau: 100 Jahre Bauhaus: Ausstellung über Glas in Chemnitz
Guesswork Leads to Dialogue
Digitization, Surveillance and Identity at the Kunstverein Speyer e. V.
Absolute Abstraction Merges With Absolute Realism
Jenny Graser’s Note Upon the Mystic Writing-Pad
Internationale Photoszene Köln
Luther, Uecker and Wessel Are in Concert at Art Basel
Wessel’s Landscapes Are Too Present to Be Abstract Art, but Also Too Abstract to Represent the Present
In the Landscapes Series, Each Picture Is a Sum of Destruction