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Ben Grosse-Johannboecke
(b. 2002, Germany)
︎︎︎Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders
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Ben Grosse-Johannboecke
(b. 2002, Germany)
︎︎︎Positions in Contemporary Art: Europe Across Borders
Ben Grosse-Johannboecke recently completed his Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London. Ben's practice confronts the duality of politically engaged and autonomous art through the use of satellite imagery from areas of sociopolitical importance, which is then layered, abstracted, and frequently obscured by painted vertical pulses, often to the point where the initial image has become almost entirely unrecognizable. Specific parts are deliberately left unobstructed to challenge the viewer to see whether the absence of a visual barrier makes the image more digestible. This process challenges the notion of the image's ability to store information and asks how abstract sociopolitical imagery is to begin with.
Selected group exhibitions were held at CICA Vancouver; Mara, Khrais-Tërshana, Tirana; Purist Gallery, London; Pipeline Contemporary, Online; Warbling Collective, London (all 2025); Hypha Studios x Dispensary, Wrexham; LAAF_SetTheory, Łódź; Mamut Art Project, Istanbul; The Muse, London; OPEN205, London; Safehouse 1 and 2, London; Great Western Studios, London, and CICA museum, Gimpo (all 2024), among others.
Selected group exhibitions were held at CICA Vancouver; Mara, Khrais-Tërshana, Tirana; Purist Gallery, London; Pipeline Contemporary, Online; Warbling Collective, London (all 2025); Hypha Studios x Dispensary, Wrexham; LAAF_SetTheory, Łódź; Mamut Art Project, Istanbul; The Muse, London; OPEN205, London; Safehouse 1 and 2, London; Great Western Studios, London, and CICA museum, Gimpo (all 2024), among others.
Change or Perish (2024, image transfer, staples and cotton on wood with aluminium wire, 48 x 70 cm.
Why have you forsaken me (2025), oil, image transfer, staples and viscose on wood with aluminium wire, 118 x 180 cm.
The Flea and The Acrobat / Lamentation A-EF57-13 (2025), oil, image transfer, staples and cotton on wood, 23.5 x 44 cm.
The Painter Beneath the Vanished Sky II (2025), oil, image transfer, staples and viscose on wood, 95 x 140 cm.
Zaporizhzhia, Still (2024), image transfer on canvas panel with aluminium wire, 133 x 45 x 45 cm.