About Pi
A project space for art, science and nature
Profile
Pi (π) Art Project is a non-commercial art platform in Frankfurt am Main. It is a place for dialogue across geographic, disciplinary and generational lines, and it deliberately places contemporary work in relation to historical artistic practice.
At its core is an interest in the intersections of art, science and nature. This focus builds on the long international practice of its founder, Mathias Kessler. Since moving from New York to Frankfurt, he has connected his international network with the local art scene, in a space outside the logic of the art market.
Since 2025 the artist Björn Drenkwitz has been part of the project. Together they develop programmes built on artistic juxtaposition and exchange, most recently the series Dialoge 2026.
Team
Mathias Kessler
Founder and curator. (b. 1968, Austria) works across photography, installation and digital media on a critique of the Romantic image of nature. MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York. Exhibitions include Kunsthal Rotterdam, Kunsthaus Graz, Kirchner Museum Davos, Columbus Museum of Art and ERES-Stiftung Munich. Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and New York. Founder of Pi (π) Art Project.
Björn Drenkwitz
Curator. (b. 1978) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. His conceptual work addresses climate catastrophe, fire and the visual traces of ecological destruction, most recently in the exhibition contexts Red Rain and Aus-Zeit. Represented by Galerie Heike Strelow. Co-curator of Pi (π) Art Project since 2025.
Partners
Special thanks go to Galerie Heike Strelow, whose generous support makes the programme possible and connects Pi to a lively cultural context.