Florian Genzken

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST
RESIDENT IN: 2024

Biography

Florian Genzken (b. 1994) is a visual artist that studied Fine Arts in Munich, Paris and Vienna. His work questions the production and perception of images and text, mainly by using the mediums painting, photography and printmaking. Many of his works deal with transitions or translations and sometimes it’s just a minor mutilation that completely changes the message of an image or an object. Enlarging and multiplying what is meant to be small and unique, turning something inside out or signing images that are not his are formal ways of questioning the thing itself and its function and qualification as artwork. Disrupting expectations in a formal and conceptual way is the core of his work. Sometimes humor is the weapon of choice, sometimes it’s bold minimalism and at times it’s even laziness that gives the thought a form.