Artist Bio
His main artistic work deals with people with all their facets of the question of existence, the mystery of being human. He also likes to be allowed to do so inspired by myths and fairy tales or ideological or pseudo-religious ideas of the different cultures and epochs of human history. The strongest driving force for his work is the blatant discrepancy between his dream image of a world worth striving for in harmony, beauty, and innocence and often found reality in the form of violence, alienation, and abuse.
Thorsten Boehm was born in 1974 in Hamburg, Germany. According to his own statement, he lived - ”born in the zodiac sign of the fish - since the beginning rather in the dimensions of dreams, Intuition and ”Anti-Reality”. In his early childhood, drawing and painting were his favorite pastimes. Traveling in silence fantasy worlds and fictional places of longing and expressing them visually on paper led to deep happiness.
Later, his heart`s desire, for the profession of the artist, was reinforced to take. After successfully completing his studies as a communication designer at the BILDKUNST AKADEMIE HAMBURG in 2000, today he works as a freelance visual artist for specialist magazines and agencies. He favors classic painting and graphics and their diverse mixed techniques and forms of expression, especially the work with the airbrush. Boehm`s works have been shown in numerous, well-regarded art exhibitions and international events in recent years and presented to a broad public. These often polarizing and provocative works and exhibitions have also been in the past few years several art prizes have already been awarded for their quality and issue.