Explore Artists in Germany

Ulrike Ottinger is a German filmmaker and artist renowned for her visually opulent and often surreal films that explore identity, transformation, and cultural archetypes. Her unique cinematic language, blurring documentary and fiction, creates fantastical worlds that challenge conventional narratives and societal norms.

Katja Strunz is a German artist known for her sculptural installations that explore concepts of time, space, and memory. Her work often features geometric forms and fractured planes, using materials like wood, metal, and cardboard to create abstract environments that evoke historical rupture and fragmented realities.

Werner Büttner is a German painter known for his raw, satirical canvases that critique society and art history with dark humor. A key figure in the "Neue Wilde" movement, his work employs a distinctively blunt style to explore themes of absurdity, alienation, and political commentary.

Christa Dichgans was a German painter associated with Pop Art and Critical Realism, known for her vibrant, often unsettling depictions of toys and mass-produced objects. Her work critiques consumerism and societal anxieties, transforming innocent subjects into surreal, crowded compositions that hint at deeper unease.

Florian Hecker is a German artist and composer known for his abstract electronic music and sound installations. His practice meticulously investigates psychoacoustics, synthesizing complex auditory phenomena to challenge perception and create immersive, often disorienting, sonic environments that transcend conventional musical forms.

Daniel Sinsel is a German artist based in London, acclaimed for his intimate, handcrafted paintings and sculptures. His work meticulously combines diverse materials and classical themes, exploring illusions of space and volume with a subtle, often humorous, eroticism, delving into the material qualities and historical associations of his chosen mediums.

John Bock is a German artist whose anarchic performances and immersive installations fuse absurdist theatre, pseudo-scientific lectures, and sculpture. His "lectures" often involve grotesque costumes, found objects, and incomprehensible language, creating a chaotic yet meticulously constructed universe that subverts rational thought.

Andreas Slominski is a German artist acclaimed for his conceptual sculptures and installations, often centered around the motif of the "trap." His practice subtly subverts mundane objects and situations, using humor and paradox to question the nature of art, functionality, and perception within an everyday context.

Georg Herold is a German artist associated with the "Neue Wilde" movement, known for his unconventional, often provocative use of materials like bricks, mattresses, and found objects. His diverse practice, spanning sculpture, painting, and installation, humorously critiques societal norms and artistic conventions.

Paloma Varga Weisz is a German sculptor known for her exquisitely carved wooden figures that blend folk art aesthetics with psychological depth. Her enigmatic works, often depicting distorted or uncanny human forms, explore themes of vulnerability, transformation, and the subconscious with unsettling beauty.