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Patrick Alan Banfield

I am a Berlin-based artist who uses moving images as a jumping-off point, building physical environments around my films rather than keeping them on a screen. My installations combine video, sound, furniture, architecture, computers and custom technology to create spaces that feel like immersive, slightly surreal film sets.


Much of my work focuses on the mechanics of masculinity – specifically how men absorb, perform, and mimic the media around them. Vintage technology plays a central role here: I personally restore early Macintosh computers and wire them into my installations not as retro props, but as live, networked actors that communicate with one another.

In films like SOYBOY and #Grab ’em by the pussy, I blend found footage, personal history, and research to trace how digital culture quietly shapes memory, behavior, and self-image.

NEWS

Group exhibition during the Berlin Gallery Weekend (01.05.-03.05.2026) 

Potsdamer Str. 97, 10785 Berlin

A group exhibition with Andreas GreinerAnna KuenHannah Sophie DunkelbergJeewi LeeKevin LüdickeLucas BuschfeldMarta VovkMimi KohlerNatalie BrehmerPatrick Alan Banfield and Tim BerresheimCurated by Marcus Boxler.

Patrick will show the „Buttplug series“ (together with Mimi Kohler) and a new video installation called „Dirty Talk

RECENT WORKS

"Dirty Talk" is a room installation about masculinity, desire, posing, shame and the strange interiors these things produce. Red LED tubes, old monitors, pink camouflage fabrics, soft kitsch objects and fragments from "SOYBOY" turn the room into something between a bedroom, a lust chamber, a childlike fantasy and a distorted continuation of a Man Cave.
"Buttplug" explores the multi-layered terrain of human sexuality, touching on contemporary issues of gender relations, dominance & submission and BDSM sexuality. In its dual function, the butt plug also represents the universal human dilemma between pleasure and death.
SOYBOY follows the cultural battle for interpretative sovereignty over gender roles that is being played out on the internet, using memes: silly, fast, political and overt miniatures of pop culture. On a journey through the western USA, we develop a documentary project in which we meet people who deal with masculinity: Porn stars, soldiers, supporters of conspiracy theories, men's rights activists, freefight organisers or transsexual bodybuilders.
This experimental film seems to be a DIY tutorial: A narrator guides performers and viewers through step-by-step tasks, providing motivation without any clear progress. This work examines the tension between commercial aesthetics and deconstructive video art, questioning the purpose of aimless activity and the sensual experience of instruction without a definitive goal.
The experimental documentary "Saratov" and the video installation "Tatort (crime scene) Saratov" both investigate the events in the Russian Saratov tuberculosis prison hospital, which came to light in the autumn of 2021. Prisoners were sexually abused and tortured for years, and filmed so that they could later be blackmailed with the footage.
"Drive Crisis Preacher" is a virtual reality environment. The scenography of a fictional cyberpunk dystopia merges with old and new video and sculptural works to create an immersive VR experience. Visitors are invited to explore this world and its spatial and narrative situations. "Drive Crisis Preacher" consciously quotes the narrative forms and aesthetics of cyberpunk and synthwave music.