Armin Boehm German, 1972

Armin Boehm (Aachen, Germany, 1972)

Born in Aachen, Germany, in 1972, Armin Bohem trained at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, where he studied with Konrad Klapheck and Jörg Immendorff from 1995 to 2001.

In 2001 he took a study period in Paris at the Cité Internationale des Arts.

The artist mostly creates fictitious and spatially impossible scenes, aerial views or landscapes in perpetual flight, based on urban plans and architectural constructions, which are intended to evoke the inner human condition in comparison with the boundaries of geographical surfaces. His most famous artworks are created using combinations of different materials including fabric, oil paint, pure pigment, metal and sand.

He received several awards in 1998 from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (Germany) and in 2001 from the Cité des Arts in Paris (France).

His artworks are present in the collections of public and private institutions such as Hort Family Collection, New York; Athena Collection, Düsseldorf; Stadel Museum, Frankfurt; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Lee Family Collection, South Korea.

The artist now lives and works in Berlin.