ROY presents:Christopher von Gruben

How has art (whether it be your own or art in general) changed you?

Painting and creating have spun me in an endless circle questioning how I perceive, experience, and recreate my emotions and habits correlating with the outside world, and has opened a lot of doors in terms of understanding and fabricating one’s own reality.

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How did you start your artistic practice?

Just painting in my room corner, starting from acrylic and gouache, developing to oil. Depicting everything that drew my attention or thoughts and reworking it in a symbolic way.

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When a first-time viewer sees your work, what is the first word that you hope they think when looking at it?

Surrounded. Especially for those larger paintings, I would love to see that the painted object abstracts itself into big brush strokes and color, drawing the person in front of it in. Something that isn’t quite visible through screens and social media.

Christopher’s work focuses on relationships and social structures around him, combined with elements of love and drug addiction, and his personal perception which creates the swirling, colorful nature of my paintings. Christopher is a 21 year old artist based in Berlin. He had his first solo show at the Neuköllner Salon, and he is participating in the Spiritus 3 Magazin.