Christian Böhmer
Christian Böhmer (* 1984 in Bad Kreuznach ) is a German graffiti , street art and urban art artist.
life and work
Christian Böhmer, who also worked under the pseudonym “Mr Trash”, was an autodidact who brought graffiti to walls from 1990 onwards, in order to later develop an art form based on classic portrait painting .
His "paper bag heads", as glued paste-ups or painted and sprayed, also attracted attention because they critically drew attention to contemporary social problems. The desire for anonymity plays a major role in his works, documented by the covered heads. Two pictures with this topic were printed in the specialist book “Streetart Cologne” published in 2014 under his pseudonym “Mr Trash”.
Böhmer has been invited to festivals for years, for example the City Leaks Urban Art Festival Cologne 2011.
He lives and works as a freelance artist in Cologne .
Exhibitions (selection)
- Faceless , Art Basel , Mynt Concept Store, Basel 2015
- Group 69, AZE (Atelier Zentrum Ehrenfeld), Cologne 2015
- Babushka Group Show , Kuli Alma Gallery, Tel Aviv 2014
- Homage to Frida Kahlo , Go Gallery, Amsterdam 2014
- Public Provocations VI , Colab Gallery, Weil am Rhein 2014
- Printed in Berlin, Stattbad, Berlin 2013
- Stroke Urban Art Fair, Munich 2012 and 2011
- Variete Liberte, Cologne 2011
- Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology , Cologne 2010
- Rheinlandhalle , “Long Night of Museums”, Cologne 2010
Video documentations
- Westart goes Streetart from February 24, 2015 , accessed on September 6, 2016
literature
- Anne Scherer: Streetart Cologne . 1st edition. KiWi, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-03843-9 , pp. 243 .
Web links
- Artist's website
- streetartbln.com: street art attack goes essen-street artist mr.trash is creating work number 4 for the contest
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ rheinische-art.de: Art in public space - international street artists are leaving their mark in Cologne , accessed on September 5, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Böhmer, Christian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mr Trash (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graffiti, street and urban art artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Kreuznach |