AL, DENKSTAHL
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.
self portrait by DENKSTAHL
Exhibitions
Group Exhibition DER ZUFRIEDENE SKLAVE (The Satisfied Slave) – Städtisches Museum, Imatra/Finland 2021
Group exhibition – SWISSARTEXPO – Artbox Project, Zurich 2021
Group exhibition – ART & FLY – Adriana Art Gallery, Ibiza Private Jet Terminal 2020/2021
Exhibition – DENKSTAHL in ARTEG Kunstgalerie, Tegernsee 2019/2020
Group exhibition – URBAN ART EDITION 2018, 2019, 2020 – 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
Represented by
GALERIE VOLLHERZIG – Ilknur Özen, Mainz
Urbanshit Gallery – Rudolf Klöckner, Hamburg
Global Affairs Of Art – Erik Anders, Wien
ARTEG Kunstgalerie – Michael Böhnke, Tegernsee
Art Gallery Adriana – Adriana Peterova, Wien
Galerie Diede – Marcus Diede, Beulich
Davidson Art Advisory – Jessica Davidson, New York
Der Kunst Stylist – Detlef Kranke, Hamm
Galartery – Johanna Penz, Innsbruck
Hansford & Sons Gallery, London
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
REBELLIOUS ART
URBAN ART
TRIBUTE TO
NATURAL BORN
PORTRAIT ART – WARPAINTING
