Dominik Cosentino (they/them) was born in Milan in 1989 and moving fluidly between Berlin, Munich, and Milan, their practice unfolds at the intersection of research and intuition—an ever-evolving dialogue between form and meaning. With roots in Architecture from the Technical University of Munich, Fashion Design from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and a Master’s degree from the University of the Arts Berlin—where they explored the in/visible colonial echoes woven into garments—their work is shaped by both critical inquiry and poetic subversion.

Recipient of the Elsa Neumann Scholarship, they embarked on an independent artistic path that weaves together conceptual, multimedia gestures and socially investigative frameworks. From 2021 to 2024, they taught as Assistant Professor at the Chair of Fashion Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, where they nurtured transdisciplinary experimentation and critical discourse across BA and MA programs. In parallel, their work as a Junior Designer at Maison Viktor & Rolf brought them into intimate proximity with narrative-driven fashion and special collaborations where performance and couture dissolve into one.

Guided by queer and intersectional feminist thought, their practice traverses sculpture, textile, video, and participatory installation—mapping out the quiet violence of hierarchies, the silences of power, the architectures of erasure. They create spaces of encounter, both tactile and ephemeral, inviting audiences into a shared act of noticing what lies beneath perception. Materiality plays a central role—bronze, porcelain, and glass become vessels of memory, resistance, and transformation. Early formative encounters at Atelier Van Lieshout introduced them to material-based conceptual processes that continue to echo through their sculptural and spatial investigations.

Their current research delves into the politics of erasure and the poetics of absence. Through experimental olfactory works, they engage the sense of smell as a form of resistance, conjuring memory, presence, and embodied knowing. Scent becomes a fugitive archive—tracing what has been forgotten, displaced, or deliberately obscured. In these invisible gestures, they reclaim space for what persists beneath the surface: the unspoken, the resilient, the enduring.