Marius Probst

SurrealLabor is a Karlsruhe-based art and research collective founded by Andreas Hölldorfer, Julia Ihls, and Marius Probst. Working at the intersections of art, biodesign, digital media, and spatial staging, the collective develops speculative objects, installations, and experimental setups that make alternative futures sensorially tangible. SurrealLabor’s works combine artistic research with technical development, material experimentation, and spatial interventions. Their practice encompasses mycelium-based artefacts, kinetic light installations, bio-based textile structures, and media translations between biological and digital systems. Responding to current ecological, technological, and societal transformations, SurrealLabor asks how new forms of coexistence, production, and perception can be imagined. Between speculative fabulation, material research, and installation-based practice, the collective explores the boundaries of the status quo — creating artistic situations in which biological, technical, and social systems enter into unfamiliar relations.

Marius Probst is a Karlsruhe-based concept developer and project manager. His work moves between space, communication, digital media, and collective production. Drawing on experience in spatial design, event and spatial communication, as well as editorial and organizational work, he develops formats that translate artistic ideas into spatial situations, public interventions, and collaborative processes. He studied Literature–Arts–Media and Economics at the University of Konstanz and is a co-founder of SurrealLabor—an art and research collective working at the interfaces of art, bio-design, and digital media.