Florian Dombois (born 1966 in Berlin) is an artist who focuses on time, landforms, labilities, seismic and tectonic activity, as well as on their various representational and media formats.
Dombois studied geophysics and philosophy in Berlin, Kiel and Hawaii, and wrote his PhD in Amsterdam and Berlin.
His oeuvre includes spatial and sound installations, but also happenings and performances.
In 2003–2011, he was heading the Institute for Transdisciplinarity (Y), and was president of the research council at Berne University of the Arts.
In 2010, he received the German Sound Art Prize.