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Andy Kassier (* 1989 in Berlin, Germany) is a conceptual artist and photographer, who lives and works in Berlin.

Life and carrier
Kassier studied at the academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2012-2018.

In 2018 at Düsseldorf Photo in NRW-Forum Düsseldorf Kassier partnered with Signe Pierce in a performance piece „On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Performance Artist“. Kassier spoke about the subject of "digital identity" with Rafael Horzon, Anika Meier, Kristina Musholt and Kathrin Weßling at the re:publica 2018 in Berlin.

Exhibitions

 * 2015: Tropical Lab #9, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
 * 2016: The Science of Happiness, Pop;68, Cologne, Germany
 * 2016: {p:lux} licht teilen, Kunstmuseum Celle, Celle, Germany
 * 2017: Now on View, Roehrs & Boetsch, Zurich, Switzerland
 * 2017: From Selfie to Self-Expression, Saatchi Gallery, London, GB
 * 2018: On the internet, nobody knows you’re a performance artist, NRW-Forum, Duesseldorf Photo, Dusseldorf, Germany
 * 2018: Sunny Side Up, Eigen + Art Lab, Instagram

Quotes
"Success is just a smile away."

- Andy Kassier als Kunstfigur

"The resulting images are funny, but beyond the visual gags they comprise a deeper critique of the capitalist system which perpetuates this view of masculinity, and the way these roles play out through selfies online."

- Charlotte Jansen

Publications

 * Contributor in: Virtual Normality. Netzkünstlerinnen 2.0. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna 2018. ISBN 978-3-903228-56-6.
 * Contributor in: Salon No.3. December 2016., Salon Verlag & Edition, Cologne 2016. ISBN 978-3-89770-326-1.