Bio
Felix Pestemer (born in Braunschweig in 1974) studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts and illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. Since then, he has been working at the intersection of both disciplines: comics and stories in book format form a fluid transition to narrative graphic series. His first graphic novel, Der Staub der Ahnen (The Dust of the Ancestors, 2012), was nominated for the Max und Moritz Award and is based on a one-year DAAD research stay in Mexico. The albums “In the Eye of the Beholder – A Tour of the Old National Gallery” (2019) and “Alles bleibt anders – Das Konzerthaus Berlin und seine Geschichte(n)” (Everything Remains Different – The Berlin Concert Hall and its History/Stories, 2021) are dedicated to the urban and cultural history of his adopted home, Berlin. Since 2023, Pestemer has been developing climate protection comics in cooperation with experts.
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
| 2020 | “… Give me the Place”, Museum for Sepulcral Culture |
| 2019 | “In the eye of the beholder” (Exhibition comiXconnection), Museum Europäischer Kulturen |
| 2018 | “The 9th Art”, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg |
| 2017 | Exhibition Picnic Time, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/M. |
| 2016 | Bier- und Oktoberfestmuseum, München |
| 2014 | Horst-Janssen-Museum, Oldenburg |
| 2013 | “Comics from Berlin. Pictures of a City”, Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin |
| “11 Years, 11 Days and 11 Seconds” – an Anniversary Exhibition of the Avant Publishing House, Neurotitan, Berlin | |
| 2011 | “Poète maudit”, Gallery ErsterErster, Berlin |
| 2010 | “Drama Light”, “Gewerbehalle”, Lucerne |
| 2009 | “Drama Light”, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin |
| “49 Meter Neukölln”, Alte Kindl-Brauerei, Berlin | |
| “Liebe und Existenzialismus am Arbeitsplatz”, Galerie elm75, Berlin | |
| 2008 | “Glück Gehabt – Kunst im Untergrund”, Metro U8, Berlin |
| “Illustrative 2008”, Messezentrum, Zürich | |
| “All your life”, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin | |
| “7. Internationale Grafik Triennale”, Schloss Bevern, Holzminden | |
| “Jared Lindsay Clark vs. Felix Puttbill Pestemer”, Kompact Living Space, Berlin | |
| 2007 | “Illustrative 2007” – Auswahl Neue Talente, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin |
| 2006 | “Eine Dose ist eine Dose ist eine Dose…”, Kultur-Tisch des Kunstvereins Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
| 2004 | Meisterschülerausstellung, Universität der Künste Berlin |
| 2003 | “Fuck!” Nebbich zu Gast bei Yello Biafra – Spoken Word, SO/36, Berlin |
| 2002 | “Feria de Curselería”, Club Domestic, Barcelona |
| “The Punk Collection”, Aggregat an der Volksbühne, Berlin | |
| 2001 | “Cobra Hopital” (Nebbich Edition No.2 zu Gast bei Katharina Jahnke), Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg |
| 2000 | “Stilvoll Einkaufen – Repräsentativ Arbeiten”, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig |
| 1999 | “Europa spielt New York in Berlin”, Chambres d’Amis, Berlin |
| “Luxus Lücke”, Ausstellungsforum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin |