mittenimwald

About the artist

mittenimwald is a Hamburg based stencil artist. He is born and raised in northern Germany, worked as a commercial artist before becoming a freelance artist. Today, in his stencils, he takes up classic advertising mechanisms, which he combines with punk and tattoo elements to create a mix of “sex sells” and revolutionism.

His imagery is the artistic counterpoint to guerrilla marketing in the consumer industry. Starting with his poster campaign for poverty, hunger and sausage, his choice of motifs includes tattooed urban beauties as well as skull-trimmed pop art icons. In his large-format stencils he furiously mixes commerce with anarchy, punk with PR. An exciting, important position that makes us think about the question: Who actually manipulates whom?