Roman Podeszwa is an audiovisual artist, VR builder, author and music producer born in Duisburg, Germany. After studying film and working at the 20th Century Fox film studios in Los Angeles, he switched to musicology at the University of Cologne, took part in composition courses given by Karlheinz Stockhausen and received commissions from the Kölner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik. In 2019, he graduated with a degree in fine art from the Kunstakademie Münster, with distinction as a Meisterschüler (master class student) of Daniele Buetti.

His multimedia installations engage with emerging technologies and explore the interface between virtual and physical reality. His work has been shown at Museum Rietberg (Zurich), Musée des Confluences (Lyon) and Lian Contemporary Art Space (Shanghai). Since 2022 he has
been publishing virtual experiential spaces on the platform Spatial.io. In 2024 he produced a radio programme for the Studio Neue Musik of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), in which he examined video games as an extended human habitat. He was hired as author for the play “Feels like Falling” (directed by Mareike Philipp Fiege), which premiered in 2025 and was revived in 2026. He co-founded the PERFS collective, which combines virtual reality and physical performance, focusing on critical questions about ownership and human agency in today’s digital culture.

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