Spring Coolers by Moreno Schweikle

May 20, 2025 by Arseny Vesnin in 2025, Art, Design, Germany

Spring Coolers by Moreno Schweikle, launched in 2021, still feels fresh, especially in today's workplace design and post-pandemic social context. As part of Balenciaga’s Art in Stores project, Schweikle’s work stands out by subtly challenging the emphasis on pure function in industrial design.

At first glance, a water cooler might seem like an unlikely muse unless you are a fan of pre-COVID office small talks. But Schweikle transforms this routine object into a sculptural reinterpretation, blending it with neoclassical elements that recall historic city fountains. Spring Coolers changes the game by making designs about beauty as well as usefulness in the workplace.

By turning "grabbing water" into a social event, Schweikle transforms the cooler into a modern meeting place—an open space where people can talk freely. In Balenciaga’s Art in Stores project, Spring Coolers is notable for its subtle insight and cultural importance, showing that even simple objects can hold significance.
Created in 2021, this work feels especially relevant today.

Post-WiFi Art by Mika 100o111

October 20, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

The works we have shared by the artist Mika fall into a category that we could describe as post-crypto and post-Wi-Fi art. She blends elements of digital culture, technology, and modern life into physical or conceptual pieces that question the relationships between technology, symbolism, and daily objects.

Post-crypto art is generally developed after or in response to the rise of blockchain technology and the NFT market. Most works reflect the hangover or disillusionment from the previous promises of decentralisation, democratisation of wealth, or even "crypto utopia" we all had in 2021.
Mika's works seem to record an irony or judgment toward this ultra-modern, technology-marinated world, in which crypto art was promising to change but then primarily problematic.

Therefore, these objects in the images have an implicit dialogue with the viewer, an invitation to consider some thought about tradition—for instance, swords, tea bags, crosses—and modernity; what better examples than laptops, Bluetooth, or iPhone chargers?

Mika works are reflections upon the omni-presence of internet connectivity and how it is affecting the physical world. In post-WiFi art, a common theme is a disconnect between virtual and real-world interactions, critiquing the reliance on constant online presence.

Mika invites deep reflection on the state of modernity through her work, critiquing or accepting the role technology plays in redefining our relationship to power, comfort, connectivity, and even spirituality. In the post-crypto, post-WiFi era, as we call it, these works toy with the absurdities of modern life and digital reliance, pushing back against the elevation of mundane or obsolete symbols to objects of reflection.

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Sven-Julien Kanclerski Art

March 12, 2024 by Arseny Vesnin in 2024, Art, Germany, Portfolios, Sculpture

Sven-Julien Kanclerski creates sculptures and installations that offer a fresh perspective on familiar cultural motifs, inviting the observer to rediscover them. His creations, characterised by hybridised forms from everyday commercial items, straddle the line between the recognisable and the uncanny. His ordinary and extraordinary balance captivates viewers emotionally.

Kanclerski’s works use fragmented elements, subtle components, and lingering traces instead of perfect aesthetics to achieve their impact. The pleasure of recognising the familiar undergoes a metamorphosis, evolving into a profound joy of rediscovery.

SJK intentionally integrates commodity fetishism into his art through scaling, hybridisation, and refined material. While certain pieces may suggest practical functionality, this illusion is not a testament to their utility but to the enchantment inherent in mass-produced forms.

Kitasavi

December 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

Artist and designer Kitasavi casually creates new worlds where chaos is the only order

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Wavism by Diango Hernandez

December 14, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Portfolios, Germany, Cuba

Cuban artist founder of the self-proclaimed Wavism, Diango Hernandez lives and works in Düsseldorf. His work is the subject of many solo and group exhibitions happening around the world since 1995

@diango.hernandez

A New Nature by Mark Dorf

October 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios, Switzerland

@mrkdrf

Generative artist Mark Dorf shares NFT excerpts from an upcoming video installation titled A New Nature at the Museum für Gestaltung that will run as a part of Digital Arts Zurich later this month

"A New Nature" contemplates the future of what is commonly referred to in Western culture as Nature through scenes that are both cautionary and celebratory. The works in A New Nature do not depict a future that is a return to the pastoral and bucolic landscape, but neither is it a future of doom and gloom. Instead, these works reveal environments that are augmented with technology, for better or worse, and that are full of mystery suggesting and normalizing images of a strange hybrid, and at times abject, planetary system of technology-organisms.

These new works are derived from a longer form video installation A New Nature are debuting at the end of the month at @museumgestaltung with @daz_digitalartzurich

01 A New Nature

⚭ Nature is just a word that is assigned to a place over there. Theres nothing over there that is not over here

02 Layer Two

✧ Tell me what you see. It slips just out of reach with the very act of grasping it.

03 Assemblage

☉ Breathe life into this world. There is nothing new here, we have all been here forever.

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Stefan Große Halbuer

September 06, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Illustration, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

@plastic.pen

Stefan is a graphic designer and digital artist from Münster, Germany. He's been working as a freelancer for international corporations, NGOs and magazines as well as for musicians and startups, for almost 10 years.

CYCLE OF THE SHROOM is Stefan's new baby in the NFT world, showing his love for everything around cyberpunk culture

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2003 by Cornelius Dämmrich

August 10, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Germany, NFT Art, Portfolios

@corneliusdammrich

16 months in creation, a piece inspired by LAN internet parties at the time Designcollector just started, released by gifted CG artist Cornelius Dämmrich as an NFT on @Superrare.co

“In 2011 I made a piece called "Ancient Area Network" which depicts a LAN Party in an old building that wasn't anything like the half-timbered house I lived in for many years, but it was my attempt to capture the atmosphere and chaos these gatherings had. I started this cycle 10 years ago with a depiction of a LAN Party and I'm closing it with another. This time with more delpherian touches to it. Mr. Wanderer is back with a whole duffle bag full of connectivity issues.”

“When I was 14, the most common LAN theme we had were birthday and weekend LANs that would go for two days and were never attended by more than 8 people. There was one LAN hosted by a student committee at my Highschool with roughly 130 people attending but that was never the norm for us. Most of us were not (yet) nerdy enough for the demo scene and we were too young and poor to attend the big boy LAN parties in early 2000 Germany.”

“The host’s parents would organize soda, snacks and a hearty alternative ("real food"). Every attendee would arrive half an hour apart and the first third of the night was usually spend with troubleshooting the network ("can anyone see me?","okay, let's all set the same workgroup", etc.), the second third was spend sharing porn, DVD rips, MP3s and games and the last part was either playing actual games or a combination of playing games and re-installing windows on someone’s PC because something broke.”

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Julia Nimke Photography

June 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Germany, Photography, Lifestyle, Portfolios

@julianimkephotography

Julia Nimke is a Berlin based photographer. She loves to physically get to a place whether it’s hiking up to the basecamp of Matterhorn for Lufthansa magazine or kayaking at 4 am to document the golden sunrise during a commercial shooting. Being in the outdoors and the joy that comes with it is the main source of inspiration of Julias work. Telling authentic stories fitted to a brand’s narrative is her mission. Julia’s craft is trusted by international companies in the field of tourism, automotive and tech. Being an early user of Instagram Julias has over 50k followers, who travel the world virtually through her work. As a former Adobe Creative Resident Julia loves to share insights of her creative process through speaking engagements.

Aerial photography by Stephan Zirwes

June 01, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Germany, Photography, Portfolios

@stephanzirwes

Stephan Zirwes is a professional Photographer who is specialised in aerial photography with an artistic approach to the themes of the environment and our surroundings. He is working with still and moving pictures since the early 90s creating video installations, art-videos and visual-arts. Then focused on Art Photography and working out of Helicopters and with Drones since many years for industry, movie productions and his own art projects. Structures and (un)intended arrangements are in the focus of his free work.

Pierre Schmidt

May 07, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Germany, Portfolios

@dromsjel

German artist Pierre Schmidt, born in 1987 and also known as “drømsjel”, creates mind-bending imagery that combines digital illustration and collage techniques. He takes old-fashioned 20th-century style (sometimes pornographic) photographs and puts his own twist on them by manipulating each photo with his own vision of surrealism. Using photo manipulation, illustration, and collage, Pierre has found the perfect balance within each medium he utilizes, creating a diverse set terrifyingly beautiful pieces of art. His art can be found in Cosmopolitan, Vogue Italia, Hi-Fructose Magazine and Vice.

Alina Grasmann art

April 30, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Germany, Portfolios

@alina_anila

Alina Grasmann is a painter based in Munich.

“I am a painter and I mostly work in series and in large scale and oil on canvas. Each series is based on a specific location, that I try to examine more closely in my paintings. I have just finished the work on my last series „Sculpting in Time“, which was on view at Fridman Gallery in NYC until early January. The paintings show rooms of the urban utopia Arcosanti, which was designed by Frank Ilyod Wright student Paolo Soleri in the desert of Arizona. Ideally, my work is shifting somewhere between fact and fiction. The rooms shown in „Sculpting in Time“ become chambers of wonders, in the sense of baroque imaginariums. I try to fill a ruin, so to speak, with life again. But you will never find people in my paintings.”

— Re:Magazine

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Weronika Dudka Photography

February 09, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Germany, Portfolios, Photography

@veronicadelica8

Interdisciplinary designer Weronika Dudka is a master of many talents, where architectural photography is only a part but took us all. Her trained eye frames the meaning of each brutalism building she photographed.

Darius Puia

February 08, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Graphic Design, Germany, Portfolios, NFT Art

@bakaarts

Darius Puia aka Baka Arts is a graphic designer and digital artist basing in Germany, and bringing cyberpunk with sci-fi art to the screens during the last 15 years

City In The Sky by Elmgreen & Dragset

January 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Art, Germany, Architecture, Design

@elmgreenanddragsetstudio

Artists Elmgreen & Dragset’s share The Hive, a new and permanent installation affixed to the ceiling of Moynihan Train Hall in New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, the busiest transportation hub in North America. The work is based on “City In The Sky” installation on the view at Gallery Perrotin.

Both City In The Sky and The Hive — produced only one year apart — manifest an imaginary city in the form of a scaled model, installed upside-down. With technological precision, this cityscape captures the multiplicity and synergy of the world’s metropolises. It is a kaleidoscopic installation, consisting of a dense network of illuminated skyscrapers and modern tower buildings, both real and fictional.

Manuel Benchico Art

January 18, 2021 by Arseny Vesnin in 2021, Digital Art, Germany, Glitch, Portfolios

@benchico_art

Artist Manuel Benchico juxtaposes digital techniques with classic interpretation by using slit scan and glitched portraits recreated painstakingly with oil on canvas. We always believed the future of art is in adoption of the new tools for the sake of delivering new meanings.

YEAR2054 by Antoni Tudisco

December 23, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Digital Art, Germany, Portfolios

@antonitudisco

Leading digital artist Antoni Tudisco imagines the world in the Year 2054

Post Digital Art of Alexey Shahov

November 13, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Art, Digital Art, Glitch, Germany, Portfolios

@shahishisname

“The worlds Alexey Shahov creates look like video games that are still in the process of being designed, as grey, uneven body parts with stickman-like features are partially covered by sprawling flashes of spray paint and pencil marks.“

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Sunset Waves - Iceland by Jan Erik Waider

November 10, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Germany, Lifestyle, Portfolios, Photography

@northlandscapes

'SUNSET WAVES' is a fine art series by visual artist and landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider based in Hamburg. His focus is atmospheric and abstract landscape photography of the distant North. All images were taken on the black sand beach of Vík í Mýrdal on the south coast of Iceland.

Mathilde Karrèr Photography

September 02, 2020 by Arseny Vesnin in 2020, Photography, Portfolios, Germany

Mathilde Karrèr loves accessories, color, and flowers to create lavish yet subtle compositions with a captivating narrative. Half-way between paintings and movie stills, her photographs are elaborate, visually-rich micro worlds with knowingly chosen details.

Her lighting expertise and the wish to make every image premium, texturised and rich, this is what makes her photography stand out. Many of her works, she develops and styles herself, you can call it a very hands-on way of working.

“The art of painting, in many styles, have subconsciously, a big influence in my work.
Also late 20th century movies, the production and set design, I find very inspiring. I like to approach a project as a director, set designer and problem solver in one.
Certain themes will always re-emerge in my work, a strong connection to the classical still life off course, however I like to experiment, try new things, push my own reference framework”

— Mathilde Karrèr

@mathildekarrer