Pascal Marcel Dreier listens to and narrates more-than-human stories.
They combine aspects of aesthetic research with activist, forensic, and ethnographic methods, employing a multitude of media such as 3D laser measurement data, bones, game engines, experimental film, sound, and music.

Pascal is assistant professor of Multispecies Storytelling at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and teaches, talks, and holds workshops at universities and art institutions internationally, among them the University of Cambridge, University of Western Australia, University of Siegen, Estonian Academy of Art, and Köln International School of Design (KISD).

They hold an MA in Art & Ecology from Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as an MFA in Media & Fine Art from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

● 2025 ‘CLOSURE OF OPENINGS / CONTACT ZONES’, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz, AT (Solo)● 2025 ‘STAY VANISH BECOME’, Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein, Linz, AT (Duo)● 2024–2025 ‘CRAZY ABOUT MEAT’, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, DE ● 2023 ‘DE PROFUNDIS’, Städtische Galerie Sindelfingen, DE (Solo) ● 2022 Talk to me: Other Histories of Nature, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE ● 2022 At the Edge of Safehouse, Safehouse, London, UK● 2021 ‘Live Stock / Live Animals’, KHM Open, Cologne, DE ●2020 ‘OCTOPUS ENCOUNTERS: An Immersive Library of Octopus Aesthetics’, Glasmoog, Cologne, DE ● 2020 ‘Perron Art Price’, Stadt Galerie Frankenthal, DE ● 2019 ‘Goodbye Cruel World, it’s Over’, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf, DE ● 2019 ‘Animal Ludens’, Next-Level Festival for Games, Zollverein Essen, DE ● 2019 ‘Practices of Approximation’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE ● 2019 ‘we, animals: multispecies narrations’, MEINBLAU Berlin, DE ●

PUBLICATIONS

● With Leoni Fischer. “Night At The Factory Farm: Navigating The Thresholds of Animal-Industrial Interiors.” In Interior Ecologies. Leipzig: Spector Books, 2025 (forthcoming).
● “Real Nature, Part I: An Introduction to Ray Tracing.” Magazin Der Kunsthochschule Für Medien Köln 3 (forthcoming).
● “Chimäre: Scanning als de-domestizierende Praxis.” In Virtuelle Tiere Lebewesen zwischen Code und Kreatur. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024.
● With Thomas Hawranke. “»Fish Belong in the Ocean« Animal Rights Activism in Video Games.” In 13th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, ‘Mend/Blend/Attend. SAR 2022 Proceedings‘, Research Catalogue, 2024 https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2429200/2537865/0/0
● With Claudia Paganini. Eco Art als Ego Art? Spiritualität zwischen Egoismus und Engagement, in: Datterl, Monika / Guggenberger, Wilhelm / Paganini, Claudia (eds.): Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt. Zum Verhältnis von Ethik und Spiritualität (theologische trends 32). Innsbruck: Theologische Fakultät 2022, S. 113-129.
● Closure of Openings, in: Jessica Ullrich, Frederike Middelhoff (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und Migration [Animal Studies: Animals and Migration] 19/2021. Berlin, Neofelis, 2021.
● With Thomas Hawranke. Capturing the Wild: Virtuelle Pferde im Computerspiel Red Dead Redemption 2 [Capturing the Wild: Virtual Horses in the Computer Game Red Dead Redemption 2], in: Jessica Ullrich, and Stefan Rieger (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und/als Medien [Animal Studies: Animals and/as Media] 18/2020. Berlin, Neofelis, 2020.

AFFILIATIONS

● Minding Animals Germany
● Multispecies Studio
● German Society for Media Studies
● German Ethnographic Society

SELECT TEACHING

● Multispecies Storytelling, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) ● Installation Art, KHM ● Interspecies Worldmaking, Köln International School of Design (KISD) ● Multimodal Lab, University of Siegen ● Digging—Methods Lab, KISD ● History and Theory of Design, HMKW

SELECT EDUCATION

2021–2022 MA Art and Ecology, Goldsmiths, University of London
2019 Cross-Disciplinary Strategies, University of Applied Arts Vienna
2016–2021 MFA Media and Fine Art, Academy of Media Arts Cologne