Dmitry Gielen is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation.

He studied physics and philosophy before continuing his education in sculpture at the Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts. His background informs an interest in material processes, structure, and the relationship between physical systems and abstract thought.
Gilen’s early works were influenced by Arte Povera, particularly in their focus on material presence and the poetic potential of everyday objects. A key project from this period is NUBIS (2016), a large-scale installation created inside a Yak-42 aircraft (Moscow), where a massive concrete block was placed on airplane sleeping pillows.

In his current practice, he works with industrial and everyday materials, creating sculptural situations in which objects are displaced from their expected context and acquire new, often paradoxical meanings. In the series “Higher Revs”, first presented at the 13th edition of Cosmoscow International Art Fair, Gielen reworks the form of automobile wheels, whose spokes evoke the intricate stone tracery of Gothic rose windows in European cathedrals. The series brings automotive imagery into dialogue with Gothic architecture, juxtaposing the forward momentum of technological progress with the upward aspiration embodied in sacred spaces.

Alongside this, his recent projects engage with both ancient and contemporary mythologies. This is evident in the solo exhibition Keep It Clean Please (Victoria Gallery, 2021), where ancient Egyptian mythology intersects with images of dark vitality, and in Life-Force, or the Genius of Rhodes (ISSMAG Gallery, 2022), where the myth of the Rhodian genius becomes the basis for a series of works combining organic and industrial-technological elements.