Marco Mahler

I’m a kinetic sculptor specializing in mobiles. I make handmade mobiles, large custom-made mobiles, 3D printed mobiles and kinetic sculptures.

Ever since I came across Alexander Calder‘s mobiles at the National Gallery of Art nineteen years ago, I’ve been fascinated with mobiles. At first I tried my hand at minimalistic wire mobiles. After receiving requests for larger custom mobiles, what started as a hobby turned into a full-time occupation. Since then, I’ve designed and made a wide variety of mobiles including large custom mobiles, 3D printed mobiles (which appear to be the first fully 3D printed ones in the world), and kinetic sculptures.

My work has been featured at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and at commercial spaces, galleries, art shops, and private residences. I’ve contributed articles about mobiles to several publications such as Houzz and Make Magazine. The 3D printed mobiles have been featured in Gestalten’s “Printing Things – Visions and Essentials for 3D Printing” and at the 2015 3D Print Shows in California, Paris and Dubai. A series of three large custom mobiles I designed and made won 3rd Prize at the 2015 International Kinetic Art Competition, organized by KAO, the largest kinetic art and sculpture organization in the world, as part of the International Kinetic Art Exhibit and Symposium in Boynton Beach, Florida. I made a 33 foot (10 meter) mobile for a commission I won in which I competed against 22 sculptors including Zaha Hadid. I am honored and excited to have been asked to make a custom mobile for Robert A. M. Stern Architects’ room at the 2017 Kips Bay Designer Show House. I custom designed and made a large mobile for the movie The Upside (released on January 11th 2019 and starring Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart and Nicole Kidman), in which it is featured throughout the movie.

I was born in Chicago and grew up in Switzerland. After New York City and Portland, Oregon, I now live in Richmond, Virginia with my two boys, where I work out of a work shop in the arts district.