b. 1975, Mexico City

Stefan Brüggemann’s multi-media works offer a complex and often scathing commentary on the art world and contemporary culture. Using spray paint, neon lighting and vinyl text, Brüggemann forces us to question our understanding of art’s aesthetic purpose, as well as the established processes of interaction between viewer and artwork. (NO CONTENT) and THIS WORK IS REALIZED WHEN IT IS BURNED are the eponymous titles of two of his pieces. Where his phrases are not meticulously printed, Brüggemann renders language as layered, cropped, or reworked to the point of obscurity – a technique that illuminates the hypnotic and disorientating effects of globalised information networks, and mass media in the modern era.

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