/Bio
Max Kesslau (b. 1996, Essen) is a designer, media artist and musician based between Hannover, Essen and Bolzano. Shaped by fringe internet and music scenes, he works on systems and the communities around them, in installations, games, editorial design, UX and sounds/music.
/CV
since 2025 MA Critical Creative Practices, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (ongoing)
2018–2024 BA Visual Communication, Hochschule Hannover
/EXHIBITIONS & TALKS
2023 »Erinnern/Vergessen«, group exhibition, Keller Drei, Hannover
2023 Werkschau + Talk ZINNOBER, Hannover
2021–2022 Use–Less, Museum August Kestner, Hannover (Kniterature)
/AWARDS
2019 1st place, Ars Electronica Hackathon
/SELECTED non-commercial WORK
2026 PIT KING
2023 Brasilia Magazin, art direction, Hochschule Hannover
2018–2022 Kniterature, with David Schwarzfeld
/EXPERIENCE
since 2024 UI/UX Designer, Greenflash, Essen
since 2023 Creative Director, EasiOrga UG, Essen
since 2017 Freelance designer, Hannover
2020 Interaction Design Intern, YOKE ApS, Copenhagen
(Munch Museum, Skamlingsbanken, IKEA Museum Filmroom)
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Max Kesslau (b. 1996, Essen) is a designer, media artist and musician based between Hannover, Essen and Bolzano. Shaped by fringe internet and music scenes, he works on systems and the communities around them, in installations, games, editorial design, UX and sounds/music.
