Nicholas Ganz

“You're not an artist until someone declares you to be one.”

Nicholas Ganz was born in Essen, Germany. He works as a documentary street artist and author. While he was active in political groups in the 1990s, he read instructions on how to spray graffiti in a magazine, and so the political slogans he had previously sprayed became works of art. However, he was unable to express himself solely through graffiti letters and soon began to paint figuratively. Today, his artistic work focuses on people and their interaction with society. The experiences he gained during extended stays in Asia play a major role in his work. Nicholas deals with themes found in subcultures and shaped by his universal, Buddhist-anarchist approach. Nicholas follows in a society where attention spans are getting shorter and shorter, he combined street art techniques with classical painting. He creates a contrasting antithesis to the culture from which he originally comes and acts as a documentary-philosophical artist.