b. 1958
Matthias Groebel is a German artist currently based in Cologne. Groebel has worked across photography, video and digital image processing, using different home-built or modified devices. When public-access channels began streaming into homes in West Germany in the 1980s, Groebel created a painting machine to mirror the visual effects of the pixelated image. He has worked with a computer-controlled painting machine since 1989, rerouting the faces in his paintings from the television screen to the canvas. His paintings are stark and clinical, rooted in the bleak worlds of sci-fi and cyberpunk and often feature faces with gritty and sexual undertones, overlaid with nonsensical text.
His artwork is housed in the public collections of the Collection of The Federal Republic of Germany and the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz.
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Matthias Groebel sees the world through screens
