The relations between Messner and the tradition of Conceptual Art are characterised by a distillation of experiments which are attributable to Kinetic Art and Arte Povera among others, and by an interest in applied art, design and architecture as expressions of a culture of planning. For his project CLOUDS (2016 and 2017/18), Philipp Messner covered the lawn in front of Alte Pinakothek and at Klarissenplatz in front of Neues Museum, Nuremberg, with colored, artifical snow.
* 1975 in Bozen, Italy, lives and works in Munich, Germany.