Kurt von Bley (b. 1976, Königshütte/O.S. – Chorzów, Poland) is a Berlin-based multimedia artist whose work examines the fragile construction of identity through the interplay of personal memory, history and systems of belief. Working across sculpture, object-based works and installation, von Bley engages autobiographical archives, religious imagery and elements from medical culture to explore how identities are formed, fragmented and reconfigured.
His practice frequently involves the transformation of everyday materials—found objects, family photographs and pharmaceutical elements—which are altered through stitching, collage and assemblage. By removing these materials from their original function, von Bley repositions them as symbolic carriers of memory and cultural meaning.
Informed by experiences of migration and cultural displacement, his work often reflects on questions of belonging, faith and the body. Religious ritual and medical aesthetics intersect in his installations, revealing tensions between control and vulnerability, belief and rationality, and the individual’s place within larger social and historical structures.