About the Artist Johannes Wohnseifer

Johannes Wohnseifer (b. 1967 in Cologne) moves assuredly between media: video, photography, sculpture, installation and acrylic painting all belong to his work. Shaped by Minimalism and Pop Art, he combines Pop's fascination with commercial imagery and Minimalism's critique of mass consumption. Since 2007 Wohnseifer has been professor of painting and sculpture at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Solo exhibitions have taken him to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (1999), the Sprengel Museum Hannover (2003) and the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (2005); in 2001 he received the ars viva prize. He lives and works in Cologne and Erftstadt.