Object: Urban Rhythms I - VII +++ Series: Pressed Flower Cabinets +++ Year: 2020 +++ Material: Wildflowers, laminating foil, historical butterfly boxes +++ Dimensions: 49 x 43 x 5.5 cm +++ Edition: 7 unique pieces +++ Nature affects the city, and the city penetrates nature. In the works, this fabric finds its extraction, preservation and essence in arrangements of urban rhythms such as club hustle and bustle, train platform waiting, pedestrian zone, playground, etc.. As if nature were being forced into our urban imaginations, transfigured scenes emerge Romanticism and poetry, as well as accusatory evidence.
Objekt: Faltbilder Schwarz +++ Serie: Asymmetrie des Unterbewussten +++ Jahr: 2004 +++ Material: Acryl auf Karton +++ Maße: 100 x 70 cm +++ Auflage: 4 Unikate +++ Was wir zeigen, soll schön sein, symmetrisch und perfekt, so, wie wir gesehen werden wollen – im Social Media, auf der Arbeit, in der Gesellschaft generell. Schönheit als Zugehörigkeit. Doch zwischen den Zeilen kommt unser Bruch durch, unterbewusst und nicht beabsichtigt. Unser Ich-Ideal ist nicht erreichbar und jeder Versuch eines Erreichens ist zum Scheitern verurteilt. Genau in dieser Imperfektion, dieser Asymmetrie liegt die Heilung – das Unperfekte macht uns einzigartig und besonders, unvergleichbar und begehrenswert. Vom Ich-Ideal zum Ich als Ideal.
Task: Develop own brand in the pharmacy context + self-sufficient + international. | Result: “Olfactive Pharmacy” luxury niche perfume brand with added health value. | Service: Brand development End-to-end company screening Data analysis Brand environment analysis Sparring naming Narrative design Unique selling point Product development Product design Corporate design Media tools Trade fair support Brand strategy Production Production monitoring
Object: Ada*m & Eva*n +++ Series: Neon Lights +++ Year: 2010 +++ Material: Neon tubes +++ Dimensions: 20.5 + 20.5 + 13 cm D +++ Edition: 5 +++ Mixture of installation and interaction when installed in a window or on a mirror, inevitably involving the viewer. Fig leaves and apples are placeholders for viewers (= performers), representing Adam and Eve, here gender-flexible. The symbolism, technology and trappings of advertising and prostitution create a dialogue with the narrative, nimbus and symbolism of the lost paradise. Playful complicity and trivialization through aestheticization belie the tragedy of capitalist self-exploitation.
Customer: BIG | Task: Art for the entrance hall in the architectural theme “Wild and Raw”. | Result: The sculpture is a real pressed tree laminated in foil. | Service: Conceptual art development, applied and brand-contextualized art conception.
Client: EDGE Group | Task: Art for the entrance hall in the real estate developer theme of the public space “On The Edge”. | Result: The sculpture is a soap bubble that is captured photographically on its wobbling journey and is contour-cut and accompanied up the stairs. | Service: Conceptual art development, applied and brand-contextualized art conception.
Client: Homecenter Management Real Estate Development | Task: In-house sparring partner and creative strategy advisor for the agency briefing on property marketing | Result: Great PR and sales events Basic work with a unique product narrative in words, media and events. | Services: Creative and strategic brainstorming and sparring, brand narrative design, visual brand and media moods, in-house event supervisor.
Customer: Messe Dortmund Dortmunder Westfalenhallen Jagd&Hund | Task: Trade fair within the trade fair with a focus on lifestyle, luxury and sustainability for new customers and upgrading | Result: “Trendlichtung” area with curated products from design, luxury, craftsmanship and sustainability | Service: Brand development End-to-end trade fair screening Data analysis Brand environment analysis Sparring Naming Narrative design Unique selling point Product design Corporate design Wording Media tools Trade fair support Brand strategy Production Interior design Cooperation management Production monitoring
Name: ENGEEberlin Style Show – Urban Selection Look Book | Concept: What makes the city hype at this time and place? An attempt at an explanation based on Berlin's unique selling point: subculture and freedom in creation. Presented emotionally and approachably for media and brands, as well as people, an extraordinary mood board is brought to life, and the phenomenon of Berlin as the absolute international lifestyle metropolis of the hour is manifested for the first time in a holistic and socially acceptable way. | Content: Evening event with Berlin clothing design, Berlin art, Berlin celebrities and Berlin music - all in Berlin locations. | USP: Highly differentiated insight into Berlin's subculture on a silver platter. Not the sum of the parts, but the Vybe is the product that continues to make a good living locally and internationally in the following years to this day. | Services: concept, CI, production, PR, sponsors relations, marketing, sales, media.
Object: II +++ Series: Fur Wood +++ Year: 2008 +++ Material: Yew wood, German red fox fur +++ Dimensions: 66 x 50 x 14 cm +++ Edition: Unique +++ Foreign species merge something new and yet long familiar, as if it had never been any different. Hope and proof of the forgiveness and overarching connection of all things.
Client: Swatch Group | Task: Brand freshup at the POS in DACH through promotions, events and campaigns, as well as partnerships | Result: Special events and campaigns for e.g. Christmas and Mother's Day at 24 POS simultaneously | Services: Narrative design, event development, campaign photo shoots, workshops, cooperation management, team leadership, POS conception, promotion development, product development.
Customer: KU64 – The dental specialists. Anything but ordinary. | Task: Employers branding for more motivation, belonging and loyalty. | Result: Company's own design line of specialist clothing in the spirit and look and feel of the company. | Service: Forward-looking clothing development using brand-relevant and departmental approaches for 120 employees in 6 teams and 5 sizes. Balancing act and satisfaction between the wishes of the company owner and the perspectives of all employees individually. End-to-end service with analysis, conception, design, sourcing and production in series and made to measure.
Client: Homecenter Management Real Estate Development Task: In-house sparring partner and creative strategy advisor for the agency briefing on property marketing Result: Great PR and sales events Groundwork with a unique product narrative in words, media and events. Services: Creative and strategic brainstorms and sparrings, brand narrative design, visual brand and media moods, in-house event supervisor.
Customer: Waldorf Astoria Berlin | Task: Brand fresh-up and reverberating added value for the anniversary celebration of 10 years of Waldorf Astoria Berlin | Result: “Confession” corporate art exhibition with vernissage | Services: Brand analysis Sparring Brainstorming Conception Exhibition design Content development Art photography Event production Media tools Naming Wording Design
Name: Wildgold | Concept: World's first online marketplace for exclusively wild and nature products. No breeding, mono*cultures nor synthetics. | Content: Food and materials, raw or processed, services and education. | USP: More than just organic – nature to you! Birth of “Feritanism” – integration of the wild and original into everyday consumer life to a noticeable and relevant extent. | Services: concept, narrative, UX, CI, marketing, sales, text, media, strategy, format development, production, gamification
Name: YRB – Young Rich Beautfiful | Concept: Membership Peer Group - if you get a sticker, you're in. | Contents: The most beautiful, smartest and most attractive ones get a sticker stuck on them. The marker of belonging. Within a very short time, a micro-hype is created and a message becomes a cult. When something goes viral offline. | USP: More performance art than a real club - it's about being young in spirit, rich in experience & beautiful in nature. | Service: concept, creative direction, performance, guerrilla marketing
Name: Friendly Fur | Concept: Design brand and ethics certification for genuine upcycling wild goods nature conservation fur. | Contents: Furnishing and living accessories, clothing, accessories, jewellery, perfumes | USP: True Value Luxury; Expansion, protection and use of nature; Brand constructed according to the statutes of art: products = objects, campaigns = series of photographic works, PR conference = art vernissage, collection = design edition / individual piece, fashion show = art performances | Service: Brand concept, narrative, CI, PR, marketing, product development, production, sales, sponsorship relations, investor relations, trading, design, production, event, media, campaign, copy, name, logo.
Name: ENGEEberlin Style Embassy – Urban Greetings from Home | Concept: The internationalization of the Style Show goes to the residences of the German ambassadors abroad with Berlin design, music and vibes. | Content: Evening event with Berlin design, models, celebrities and music in the environment of ambassadors and diplomacy, as well as culture and business. | USP: Berlin style meets the highest representative German glamour. | Services: concept, CI, production, PR, sponsors relations, marketing, sales, media, copy, wording, naming, logo.
Name: Redhead-Models.com | Concept: Agency for only real redheads of all kinds with shoots and events, merch and products. | Content: Model and casting agency, event organizer, media production, forum. | USP: destigmatization, international media attention, several master's theses about us and the phenomenon of having increased red hair in advertising by 30% and in the editorial landscape by 70% - in other words, having started a hype. | Services: brand concept, branding, CI, bookings, marketing, event, sales, partnerships, sponsors relation, creative director, media production, PR, narrative, naming, copy, logo, creative director.
Name: Barbers Brunch | Concept: Everything that's fun on Sunday when you have little energy but don't want to do nothing. | Contents: A large loft in Prenzlauer Berg - 10 hair salons do test haircuts, florists show flower arranging, sports with a personal trainer, indoor mini golf, lounging around deluxe in Berlin furniture design with PickNick original, DJ and bar, plus make-up action and photo shoots. | USP: Crazy Berlin collection of emotional highlights for old and young, scene and family. | Services: concept, PR, marketing, sponsors relations, branding, production, media tools, naming, copy, logo.
Name: Diadumenos is Greek and means “The ongoing winner” | Concept: According to the ancient name in the Olympic hero environment, it's about sports basics in white or black with green and gold. Cuts inspired by antiquity and the Olympics, simple and basic for elegant sport during the day and sporty elegance in the evening. | Contents: jogging, swim wear, Ibiza day wear, New York business, Berlin evening | USP: Tech fabrics for high fashion sports luxe of antiquity | Services: Naming, branding, narrative design, product design, strategy development, production, campaigns, media tools
Object: Folding pictures blue white +++ Series: Asymmetry of the subconscious +++ Year: 2004 +++ Material: acrylic on cardboard +++ Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm +++ Edition: 8 unique pieces +++ What we show should be beautiful, symmetrical and perfect, the way we want to be seen - on social media, at work, in society in general. Beauty as belonging. But between the lines our break comes through, subconsciously and not intentionally. Our ego ideal is unattainable and every attempt to achieve it is doomed to failure. It is precisely in this imperfection, this asymmetry that the healing lies - the imperfection makes us unique and special, incomparable and desirable. From the ego ideal to the ego as ideal.
Objekt: Rauminstallation +++ Serie: Flipbook +++ Motive: Seifenblasen +++ Jahr: 2010 +++ Material: Zweiseitige Fine Art Prints auf Aludibond hinter Plexi +++ Maße: 12 Teile á 20 x 15 x 3 cm +++ Auflage: 3 +++ Seifenblasen sind hier nicht das Symbol von Vergänglichkeit und Träumen, die zerplatzen, sondern vielmehr Vehikel von Visionen, die am Ende ihres Schwebens Energie entlassen und im Raum aufgehen. Die Installation ist hier das entscheidende Momentum, wenn die Seifenblase ewig schwebt, indem man um die Installation herumgeht: die Motivplatten sind beidseitig, sodass man Teil einer Dauerschleife wird. Das Ankommen wird trotz Bewegung verunmöglicht.
Object: Film prints | À Rebours and The Green Carnation +++ Series: Olfactive Film Stills +++ Year: 2019 +++ Material: Fine Art Print Aludibond Plexi +++ Dimensions: 45 x 30 cm, 60 x 40 cm, 105 x 70 cm + ++ Edition: 5 + 2 +++ Fragrance is the starting point. An attempt is made to approach two scents via sound on the one hand and visual on the other. How does scent sound? What does scent look like? The work is based on research into general associations to the individual components, which are then composed to create a composition that can be perceived in the mind. Significant still images were taken from the film, which could also provide an approximation of the smell. Also take a look at the pictures from the opening.
Object: Wall cabinets with flares +++ Series: Display of the subconscious +++ Year: 2004 +++ Material: ink on architect's paper, glass box +++ Dimensions: 51 x 42 x 7 cm +++ Edition: Series of unique pieces ++ + We would like to share. If I am not seen, I do not exist. We think we have control over the information disclosed. We're making ourselves perfect, aren't we? But what we display is much more, if not something completely different... something between the lines: our most intimate and subconscious insecurity towards life and ourselves. It's about belonging and achieving the ego ideal, at least as reflected by others.
NG | Concept artist | Berlin | philosopher | anarchist | Nature | Own-nature | Wild Nature | Culture | subculture | Urbanity | contradiction | reconciliation | Merger | ego-ideal | Perversion | Beauty | Narcissism | Advertising | cross-border commuter | Corporate Art | Symbolism | Society | Social values | anti-moralist | Real values | Harmony | Generality | Generality factor | dogma | Subversion | Freedom | Unfreedom | abyss | Aesthetics | Healing | brokenness | Resonance | light-footedness | Seeker | Observer | Objects | Sculptures | Olfactory | Installation | Performance | sound | Photographic objects |
Object: Wall sequence +++ Series: Flipbook +++ Motive: Soap bubbles +++ Year: 2010 +++ Material: Fine art print on Aludibond +++ Dimensions: 12 parts each 70 x 45 cm +++ Edition: 3 +++ There are no soap bubbles here the symbol of transience and dreams that burst, but rather a vehicle of visions that release energy at the end of their floating and dissolve in space. The view not of the stage, but of the audience makes it clear where the possible vehicles are directed. The emptiness of the room makes it clear to whom they arrive.
Object: Body object earring +++ Series: Grail +++ Year: 2022 +++ Material: silver / gold-plated silver +++ Dimensions: 5 x 0.3 cm +++ Edition: 100 / variety +++ What does your nature do to you? It asks you to live - to preserve life and to squander life. During the day the life-giving vase for flowers, at night in the club the bottle for excess. Symbol and mediator of opposites that belong together. | Photographic work: triptych. Albinism-white blonde as an expression of absolute purity. Wild strawberry, symbol of blood and life-giving fertility. Absorbed in black, dimensionless space means infinity, universality and the absence of location.
Object: II +++ Series: Fur Stone +++ Year: 2008 +++ Material: Granite, German red fox fur +++ Dimensions: 53 x 35 x 26 cm +++ Edition: Unique +++ Foreign states merge together something new and yet long familiar, as if it had never been any different. Hope and proof of the forgiveness and overarching connection of all things.
What: Individual exhibition NG works from various work series | Where: Lucas Carrieri Gallery, Torstr. 96, Berlin | When: June 24, 2010 | Works from various Rorschacht series were shown: family constellations, the cabinets, asymmetrical works; the BlowUp Editorials triptych “Love Your Nature”; the living object “Riding the Green Wave”, the large flip book portrait “Max” with Max Hoppe performing his short dance sequence live; the soap bubble installation; a Meissen porcelain installation “Perfection and Shards” in dialogue with current media; four morph objects. | Sponsors: Bang&Olufsen, Bionade, BoConcept, Meissen Porcelain, Weingut Beck, Spätsche Baumschule, Friendly Fur, Viva Models, Ulf Saupe.
Object: Folding pictures red on nature +++ Series: Asymmetry of the subconscious +++ Year: 2004 +++ Material: Acrylic on cardboard +++ Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm +++ Edition: 2 unique pieces +++ What we show , should be beautiful, symmetrical and perfect, the way we want to be seen - on social media, at work, in society in general. Beauty as belonging. But between the lines our break comes through, subconsciously and not intentionally. Our ego ideal is unattainable and every attempt to achieve it is doomed to failure. It is precisely in this imperfection, this asymmetry that the healing lies - the imperfection makes us unique and special, incomparable and desirable. From the ego ideal to the ego as ideal.
Object: Object Miniatures +++ Series: Glück +++ Year: 2022 +++ Material: Wine gum on index cards +++ Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 1 cm +++ Edition: Unique series +++ Hanna Arendt invented the term “the banality of evil” and drew attention not only to evil, but also to banality. The thesis arises that it must also be happiness that arises from the most banal. The banality of happiness. Light reflections, colorful things, sweet things, simple things - it's incredibly banal and uses the same means to counteract the horror of the world with something good. Objects of memory, hope and silly happiness. The wine gums are folded into secret symbols and carry an individual message from the viewer. The location on a checkered index card is at the same time the location of happiness in our bureaucratized world as an absolute possibility.
What: O – Origami Orinuno Organza nikOlas Objects | Where: Matrix Gallery Friedrichstrasse 200, Berlin | When: July 24, 2007 | The delicate organza objects were shown hanging in front of glowing monitors. There were also sound showers from the ceiling from which contextualized sounds of nature and animals, as well as the city, could be heard. There were performances twice on the evening of the opening.
Object: III +++ Series: Fur Wood +++ Year: 2008 +++ Material: Yew wood, German red fox fur +++ Dimensions: 34 x 27 x 22 cm +++ Edition: Unique +++ Foreign species merge something new and yet long familiar, as if it had never been any different. Hope and proof of the forgiveness and overarching connection of all things. | Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery, Potsdamer Str. 61, Berlin (formerly Torstraße, Berlin)
Object: Neon hand-painted white boxes +++ Series: Tester boxes +++ Year: 2018 ongoing +++ Material: Neon marker on white cardboard +++ Dimensions: 12 x 7 x 3 cm +++ Edition: Series of unique items +++ To prevent black sales, perfume test bottles are sold to retailers in blank outer packaging. This fact makes these boxes the base of the only objects hand-painted by the artist. A test, a non-binding nature and at the same time a strong responsibility towards commercialization or its opposite. Combining appreciation and devaluation. The color scheme (neon green), style and content of the drawings refer to the narrative of the brand from which these boxes are taken: nature, urbanity and art.
Object: Wall object triptych “Love Your Nature” I - III +++ Series: Blow Up Editorials +++ Year: 2011 to today +++ Material: Fine Art Print on Aludibond +++ Dimensions: 180 x 125 x 8 cm + ++ Edition: 3 +2 / single piece +++ Fashion and advertising photography became art through Cecil Beaton and FC Gundlach. Three steps further, editorials serve as a stylistic template for this work/series when the medium is elevated not only in terms of content and appearance, but also physically: the staple punching, the credit, the center fold, the corrugations after the center fold; Dominant fetishes of our society emerge in the form of wall objects. | Photographic work: portraits, often commissioned work. In terms of content, one to six people from a family, company or club background are depicted, who are placed in direct context with related insignia. The editorial summarizes the thematic framework of an otherwise eclectic collection. The result is a highly personal snapshot that, elaborately composed, deliberately draws a link to courtly painting of the 16th century, the advertising images of that time.
