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

Artistic intervention IN THE TIMES OF WATCHMAKERS
Curated by Zdravko Haderlap, Erich Heyduck, a-zone and stachel©, Lepena/AT 2022

Group exhibition – DAISYWORLD – Wilhelmsburg Tableware Museum
Curated by Gerhard Malecik, Erich Heyduck and stachel©, Wilhelmsburg/AT 2021-2022

Group exhibition – ART & FLY – Adriana Art Gallery, Ibiza Private Jet Terminal 2020-2023

Group exhibition – SWISSARTEXPO – Artbox Project, Zurich/CH 2021

Exhibition – DENKSTAHL in ARTEG Kunstgalerie, Tegernsee 2019-2020

Group exhibition – URBAN ART EDITION 2018-22 – 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 (The Satisfied Slave)
Curated by Erik Anders, Lichtraum eins, Vienna/AT 2018

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

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

Publications

DENKSTAHL. art of a rebellious mind
ISBN 978-3-941151-36-9 (3rd modified edition – En)
ISBN 978-3-941151-35-2 (3rd modified edition – De)

DENKSTAHL. DENKMAHL
ISBN 978-3-941151-77-2 (lover’s edition, limited – De)

DENKSTAHL. SINNFLUT
ISBN 978-3-941151-37-6 (lover’s edition, limited – De)

DENKSTAHL. DIGIT-AL 
ISBN 978-3-941151-32-1 (En & De)

DENKSTAHL. HEADS
ISBN 978-3-941151-31-4 (En & De)

DENKSTAHL STREET ART. chalk & stickers
ISBN 978-3-941151-30-7 (En & De)

DENKSTAHL. POESIE & PROSA
ISBN 978-3-941151-21-5 (De)

Download DENKSTAHL Exposè: english I german

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

DENKSTAHL – an artist between classical art history and rebellion
Dr. Stephanie Schoger, June 2021