Daniel Laufer is an artist and curator based in Berlin. His hybrid film installations merge cinematic language with visual art, unfolding dreamlike, non-linear narratives that explore memory, myth, and storytelling. His works destabilize temporal logic and create immersive spaces in which perception itself becomes a stage.

Drawing on a media-archaeological approach, Laufer interweaves historical and contemporary filmic techniques with language, painting, stage design, and performance to form intermedial constellations. He has exhibited internationally. Selected exhibitions include the Jewish Museum Berlin; Jewish Museum Frankfurt; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunstverein Hannover; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.

Forthcoming solo exhibitions include Timefragments at Kunsthalle Lingen and The Architecture of Story at RIB Rotterdam (both 2026). Laufer is also active as a lecturer and curator, and his writing has appeared in Texte zur Kunst, the Journal of the Dubnow Institute, among others, and most recently as editor and contributing author of the current issue of On Curating.