“Art for me is the attempt to understand the moment.”

  -Grafy 

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Grafy (born 1998 in Mannheim) is a German artist. 

Today he lives and works in Hamburg. 

In his portraits and large-scale installations, he explores identity and cultural memory. 

His journey began in New York, where he was strongly influenced by the Pop Art of the 60s. 

Larry Rivers and Robert Rauschenberg inspired him to develop his own style, a combination of abstract and realistic elements. 

Grafy merges his passion for ethnology and psychology in his works. In his classical paintings, he explores the potential of different materials such as red earth as a pigment as well as other natural color pigments and uses industrial equipment to break up structures and create multiple layers in his work. 

“I am aiming for an aesthetic balance, conveying the right values and creating a bridge between different cultures.”

He devotes himself to perception by pictorially distorting forms and confronting the old with the new. 

In recent years his works have been exhibited in Munich, Hamburg and Monaco. They can be found in private and public collections.