Sebastian Böhm

Böhm began drawing and painting at an early age. In 1988 he had his first participation in a group exhibition at the Kulturwerkstatt Trier. After high school and community service, he became a member of the Paulusplatz study community in Trier, which also included Ramboux Prize winner Werner Müller. Sebastian Böhm had his first solo exhibition in 1997 at the Galerie Junge Kunst in the Kunstverein Trier. More and more he dealt with general questions of perception and dealt with the theories of Wilhelm Ostwald. In particular, the interactions between space, object and viewer are the subject of his artistic work. One result of this discussion is the Klafter installation at the Leukbach waterfall in Saarburg in 2001, which he carried out together with Werner Müller. Since then, Böhm has been experimenting with ways to break the two-dimensionality of painting with the mediums of classical painting. This is how your current paintings are created on picture supports in which the background of the painting is a rough nettle at a distance of 10-20 cm from the back wall, so that a light and floating impression is created by the light refraction and indirect backlight.