Insight
Software with AI from the Ruhr area
Tobias Post is an artist and software developer from Bochum. Since 2023 he has exhibited in nine cities of the Ruhr area – in industrial monuments, churches, museums and art associations. At BBK Westfalen he is regional spokesperson for the Western Ruhr; for IGA 2027 he leads the exhibition team in Dortmund.
For companies in the Ruhr area he develops software with AI, with over 40 years of programming experience. This page shows where he has been on the ground and what comes of it for companies.
Exhibitions · 2024
LWL Museum Henrichshütte
“As a young artist, and as a kid from Bochum and Stiepel, I dreamed of exhibiting my paintings in the Henrichshütte.” In 2024, IKARUS WILL NICHT BRENNEN hung in the historic blowing engine hall.
Dortmund, Essen, Bochum
Three cities have a page of their own: with the exhibitions there and what comes of them for companies.
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Portfolio
Software with AI for Dortmund
Kokerei Hansa, Künstlerhaus, gasometer – and IGA 2027.
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Portfolio
AI consulting that ends with software
UHRWERK at the Forum Kunst & Architektur, 2026.
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Portfolio
AI in Bochum – turning ideas into software
Six exhibitions, the studio, the case studies.
Hattingen
Three exhibitions in 2024: the blowing engine hall of the Henrichshütte, the listed Birschel-Mühle and the old town festival by the town wall.
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Exhibitions · 2024 · with film
Birschel-Mühle
Living industrial heritage, with an event space called “Business and Art”.
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Exhibitions · 2024 · with film
Hattingen Old Town Festival
WALD and IKARUS by the town wall – more happening than exhibition.
Immersive across the Ruhr
Since 2025, mainly immersive works: in churches in Witten and Bottrop, at the Kunstverein Duisburg, in the substation of the electricity museum in Recklinghausen and in the Artothek of the Ludwiggalerie in Oberhausen.
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Exhibitions · 2025 · with film
St Maximilian Kolbe Church
Witten-Stockum: DORNENSTAUB and VERLUST, with projectors from the KoproduktionsLabor of the Dortmunder U.
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Exhibitions · 2025
Kulturkirche Heilig Kreuz
Bottrop: DORNENSTAUB and paintings from the VERLUST series.
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Exhibitions · 2025 · with film
Kunstverein Duisburg
Duisburg: POST KONKRET BEWEGT II – from the painted image into digital space and back into the image.
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Exhibitions · 2025 · with film
The German Museum of Electricity
Recklinghausen: BRUCHKANTE KONKRET, a graphic, abstract treatment of electricity as a theme, in the substation.
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Exhibitions · 2025
Artothek Oberhausen
Oberhausen: fine art prints, exported from the digital artwork as vector data – in any size.
The tools behind it
The immersive works are made with software of his own, built with AI. The case studies tell where the ideas came from – and where the same patterns hold in companies.
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Case studies · with film
IMPACT4IMMERSIVE Runtime
Five projectors, one room, sensors and continuous operation.
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Case studies · with film
IMPACT4IMMERSIVE IDE
A development environment of its own, for installations that are rebuilt years later.
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Case studies · with film
Impact4Exhibition
Play through an exhibition before a single wall is up.
More on film
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Art is positing →
Art informel and Concrete Art: two poles between spontaneity and concept. -
Art × Technology →
Gasometer, Henrichshütte, Salzwelten, Kokerei Hansa. -
An artist in product development →
Computer science with art as a minor. -
An artist in product development →
Film emerges in the context of its surroundings. -
Art × Technology →
From the image to the virtual and back to the image.