Education
Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his Doctor of Philosophy in Amsterdam and Berlin.
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Career
After that, he has developed a concept of "Art as Research" to challenge modernism in art and scientific modes of expression. His oeuvre includes spatial and sound installations, but also happenings and performances. 2003-2011 he was heading the Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y), and was president of the research council at Berne University of the Arts.
Since 2011 he is professor at Zurich University of the Arts.
2015 „Inverse“ City of Dresden (group) 2014 „Struck Modernism“ Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich (solo) 2014 „Allegory of the Cave Painting“ Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp (group) 2013 „uboc Number.1 & stuVi2“ at Boston University Campus (solo) 2012 „Päparat Bergsturz“ Kunstmuseum Chur (group) 2011 „ArtBoom Festival“ Krakow (group) 2010 „Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis 2010“ Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (group) 2009 „Office the Record“ Galerie gelbe MUSIK Berlin (solo) 2009 „A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow“ Contemporary Image Collective - Counter Intelligence Corps, Kairo (group) 2008 „The perfect performance is… - A Reply to James Lee Byars, 1978“ Kunstmuseum Bern (Companies of Honour) (Performance) 2008 „Essential Landscape“ Galerie Bernhard Bischoff (Companies of Honour) (dual) 2008 „Spectropia“ RIXC / Riga Art Space (LV) (group) 2008 „Art as Research“ Peer-reviewed Exhibition in der Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (group) 2007 „What are the places of danger?“ Imprimerie Basel, Schweiz (solo) 2006 „Pre-Emptive“ Kunsthalle Bern (Companies of Honour) (group) 2006 „Brekzien“ Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo) 2004 „Klangraum-Raumklang“ KHM, Köln (group) 2003 „terra antwort“ Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln (solo).
