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Felix Gumbsch is a German interdisciplinary artist based in London, graduating from Central Saint Martins with an MFA in 2025.
His practice explores lived experience, focusing on themes of upbringing, sexuality, power and control dynamics, objectification, as well as mythology and iconography. Working primarily through sculpture and performance, Gumbsch’s practice is heavily concept-based, with deconstruction and reinterpretation within a distinct visual and material language playing a central role.
Queerness and sexuality form the core themes of his practice. Gumbsch’s work is closely tied to his personal identity, and he often uses his own body as a central element, both in his sculptures and as the visual or conceptual basis of his work. He approaches these themes not only as subjects but as frameworks through which to explore intimacy, vulnerability, morality, and the negotiation of identity in public and private space.
He is often using ambiguity as a strategy to create space for layered interpretations and to resist fixed readings, also allowing the viewer’s experience and context to play an active role in meaning-making.With a background in fashion and culinary arts, materiality plays a central role in his process. Texture, tactility, and visual presence are used intentionally. He engages with the cultural and historical associations of materials, either aligning with or subverting their established meanings.
His practice explores lived experience, focusing on themes of upbringing, sexuality, power and control dynamics, objectification, as well as mythology and iconography. Working primarily through sculpture and performance, Gumbsch’s practice is heavily concept-based, with deconstruction and reinterpretation within a distinct visual and material language playing a central role.
Queerness and sexuality form the core themes of his practice. Gumbsch’s work is closely tied to his personal identity, and he often uses his own body as a central element, both in his sculptures and as the visual or conceptual basis of his work. He approaches these themes not only as subjects but as frameworks through which to explore intimacy, vulnerability, morality, and the negotiation of identity in public and private space.
He is often using ambiguity as a strategy to create space for layered interpretations and to resist fixed readings, also allowing the viewer’s experience and context to play an active role in meaning-making.With a background in fashion and culinary arts, materiality plays a central role in his process. Texture, tactility, and visual presence are used intentionally. He engages with the cultural and historical associations of materials, either aligning with or subverting their established meanings.
Works for sale on auction:
Untitled (Wings I)
2025
Beeswax & Feathers
20 x 20 cm
Starting bid:
£ 100
Vulture Necklace
2026
Brass (Lost Wax Casting, and Handmade Chain)
54 x 5 cm
Starting bid:
£ 150
