Born in 1984, CHRISTIAN BÖHMER is a German artist who has his artistic roots in the graffiti scene of the 1990s. He developed his style as an autodidact on legal graffiti surfaces when we was a teenager and then he moved to an art form that is based on classic portrait, made unrecognizable by "masking" his characters with paper bags.

With the use of these "paper bag heads", the artist Christian Böhmer takes a critical look at our current society and shed light on (interpersonal) relationships. This interpersonal level is not primarily created in the familiar dialog of facial expressions, but rather through the deliberate renunciation of it, by only showing the characters' bodies.

The figures in his works speak both to each other as well as to the viewer solely through their gestures and posture, thereby creating a deeper, more original and unadulterated level of communication. Especially in an era of oversubscribed self-portrayal, egocentric world views and sometimes the acceptance of alternative truths, this original and unadulterated level of communication plays the greatest role in his works.

The deliberate play with alienation in the work of Christian Böhmer, the masking of his figures, also leaves the viewer a room for creativity, and invites him to develop his own new approaches and new interpretations. In his compositions, all characters are in a changing abstract background environment in order to direct the focus to the essential, the human person, and to underline the body dynamics through color and masks.