Collection Title: Felix Dolah

Felix Dolah (b. 1988) is a self-taught artist based in Mainz, central Germany.

His monochrome drawings, created with water and charcoal on paper, depict haunting portraits of individuals—sometimes solitary, sometimes in groups—whose genders are often ambiguous. With elongated, threadlike limbs and deformed, expressionless features, Dolah’s figures inhabit a world marked by pain, where social cohesion is both fragile and essential. Through his work, he emphasizes communication as humanity’s sole means of survival in the face of disintegration and a desperate search for identity.

Dolah’s characters exist in an undefined space, stripped of landscapes, where only the human form matters. These ghostly figures seem timeless, representing fragments of ourselves—transformed, camouflaged, or destroyed. In some pieces, Dolah leaves behind his fingerprints, adding an organic, visceral quality to the work, as if reclaiming identities that are fading away, washed out by time and water.

Who are these disembodied beings? They are the final echoes of a world frozen in its inhumanity.