Fabian Herkenhoener was born in Troisdorf, Germany, in 1984 and studied at Düsseldorf Art Academy between 2006 and 2014, graduating as a master student of Tal R. After a spell in Berlin and Amsterdam, he now lives and works in Cologne. Herkenhoener has developed his own signature style with his text images, which read as reflective, often ironic comments on the status quo. The narratives are woven like collages of painting, performance and text.

 

The artist himself describes his approach as an anthropological stocktaking of an unhinged world.

 

This is because the images result from what the artist reads, writes and experiences and can be interpreted as autobiographical ciphers of the reality he sees. In this process, the language ultimately finds its own way: the text images become a psychological map between the artist and his outside world.