The thinker, poet and artist AL, alias DENKSTAHL, has been artistically active for 3 decades. He studied, not at an academic university, but on the street. His sudden realization during an existential crisis, being a matter of life or death, gave him access to his art. His impressive life story is the story of transformation; it describes the phoenix from the ashes.

Rarely is an artist as strong both in word and image as DENKSTAHL. His name says it all! His words are deep and touching, his pictures critical, but also ironic and provocative. Since 2000, he has devoted himself mainly to digital image art. In his monumental oeuvre, almost all themes of art history can be found, especially street art, pop art, urban art, portraiture as well as works of old masters, which he lets shine in a new light.

Exhibitions

Group exhibition – ART & FLY – Adriana Art Gallery, Ibiza Private Jet Terminal 2020-2022

Group exhibition – SWISSARTEXPO – Artbox Project, Zurich 2021

Exhibition – DENKSTAHL in ARTEG Kunstgalerie, Tegernsee 2019/2020

Group exhibition – URBAN ART EDITION 2018-20 – Urbanshit Gallery, Hamburg

Exhibition with Galerie am Park at Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt 2018

Exhibition at THE ARTS+, Frankfurt Book Fair 2018

Group exhibition – DER ZUFRIEDENE SKLAVE
Curated by Erik Anders, Lichtraum eins, Wien 2018

Group exhibition – FARBWERKE-HÖCHST-SONDERBAR – Acrylic paintings
Hoechst Versicherungs AG, Frankfurt 1999

Exhibition ANFANG (Beginning) – Acrylic paintings
Galerie Passepartout, Obertshausen 1997

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No picture on its own may honestly bespeak, what needs to be said
AL, DENKSTAHL

Digit-AL Streetart by Denkstahl – Street Art meets Digital Art
Nora Hauschild, October 2018

Artist and author AL, DENKSTAHL – in an interview
Sequana Birkel, July 2020