Sometimes things just happen naturally, without any plan behind them. After many years, I’ve started again to share and offer my own artwork – canvas pieces and prints – on my website. Around the same time, something very similar happened with an old friend of mine. We’ve known each other since our youth and spent countless hours together – painting, exploring new ideas, creating. At some point, life took us in different directions: he moved to Switzerland, I stayed in Stuttgart. Yet the same creative energy seems to have stayed with both of us. Without either of us knowing, KENK launched his own shop there – creating and producing his own T-shirts. What he does isn’t about fast trends; it’s the result of years of experience, passion, and a fine sense for quality and design. I still have a T-shirt he printed back in 2007 – it’s been through a lot with me and is still in great shape today. That alone says a lot about his work. I’m happy to share his project here for everyone visiting my...

„The Absent Face“ Mixed Media, Digitaldruck auf Hahnemühle, 2025 – Unikat (1/1) Einleitung / Introduction DE: Absent Face ist kein dekoratives Bild. Es ist ein Manifest, ein Fragment aus einer Zone, in der Mensch und Maschine kollidieren. Die Figur erscheint halb Soldat, halb Panzer, schwer und kantig, in ein grelles Gelb gehüllt und zugleich von dunklen Schatten zerschnitten. Das Gesicht fehlt – ausgelöscht, abwesend. Genau darin liegt die Härte des Werkes: Der Körper wird sichtbar, doch die Identität bleibt verschwunden. EN: Absent Face is not a decorative image. It is a manifesto, a fragment from a zone where man and machine collide. The figure appears half soldier, half armor, heavy and angular, wrapped in a toxic yellow and at the same time cut by dark shadows. The face is missing – erased, absent. This absence is the essence of the work: the body is present, but the identity remains lost. Formale Analyse / Formal Analysis DE: Die Farbwahl ist radikal: Gelb als toxisches Warnsigna...

At the beginning of my work there is always a thought – an image, a memory, a feeling or an association. I capture this initial fragment in some form: on paper, on the computer, or in a photograph. It is the raw state, the trace that carries everything. Am Anfang meiner Arbeit steht immer ein Gedanke – ein Bild, eine Erinnerung, ein Gefühl oder eine Assoziation. Dieses erste Fragment halte ich in irgendeiner Form fest: auf Papier, am Computer oder in einem Foto. Es ist der Rohzustand, die Spur, die alles trägt. 1. Analogue Reworking / Analoge Überarbeitung From this fragment I develop the first forms further. I work with classical techniques such as watercolor, etching, drawing or collage. In this step I inscribe my hand, my physical gesture, directly into the work. Every line, every surface remains as a mark of my intervention – deliberately irreplaceable by a machine. Aus diesem Fragment entwickle ich die ersten Formen weiter. Ich arbeite mit klassischen Techniken wie Aquarell, Radie...

  For more than three decades, art has not been something I do – it is something I live. Painting, drawing, graffiti, street art, digital transformations: all are expressions of the same energy that has driven me for 36 years. My path began in the Hip-Hop and graffiti scene of 1990s Stuttgart, where I learned that art means freedom – not following rules, but creating your own. From the streets to the studio, I have always chosen independence over conformity. Over the years, countless works have appeared in the global street art context – sometimes anonymously, sometimes under other names – always outside the market, always uncompromising. At the same time, I have developed my practice across painting, drawing and experimental formats. Although I hold several qualifications in art and design, I consider myself an autodidact at the core. My artistic language was not learned in classrooms but shaped by lived experience, by constant exploration, and by moving between subculture and con...