Franz Ackermann

Ackermann’s work ranges from small collages, drawings and watercolours he calls “mind maps” to larger canvasses, installations and even sprawling wall paintings, covering complete rooms from top to bottom. In his exhibitions, Ackermann often combines different works to form large-scale and all-encompassing environments. The world according to Ackermann is non-hierarchical and rich on perspectives. His work is both a take on objective techniques of mapping – like street maps – and a psycho-geographical and associative depiction of what it means to be a part of the very situation that’s being mapped. Ackermann’s is a world in which the subjective and objective are seemingly interchangeable.