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Christoph Niemann

The Cartoonmuseum Basel is honouring Christoph Niemann with a solo exhibition, which comprises 120+ original drawings, prints, adapted photographs and animations.

Sunday Sketchings, Abrams New York 2016. © Christoh Niemann

Berlin-based illustrator, artist and author Christoph Niemann (b. 1970) is a master of metaphor who can mould the complex and the multifaceted in impressively clear, elegant, poetic and humorous images, with reduced, often minimalist means.

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Christoph Niemann at the exhibition “Christoph Niemann. That’s How!”, Cartoonmuseum, Basel

Be they quick sketches or elaborate illustrations and animations, every one of this great artist’s works is an instantly absorbing implementation of a brilliant idea. At the same time, rather than exclusively committing to any one technique or style, he constantly experiments and expands his repertoire of expressive means in all directions, be it with Lego bricks, potato stamps, painted-over photographs or computer animations.

Christoph Niemann, Design and Violence, MoMA 2016. © Christoph Niemann

This sought-after illustrator’s clients include newspapers and magazines like The New Yorker, Time, Wired and The New York Times Magazine, but also institutions and firms, such as the Museum of Modern Art, Google and Herman Miller. He writes and illustrates his own books for adults, including Abstract City and Sunday Sketching, which originated from a blog, and also conceives digital applications like the successful apps “Petting Zoo” and most recently “Chomp”, which are geared towards a very young audience. The Cartoonmuseum Basel is honouring this multi-award-winning and inspiring artist with a solo exhibition, which will be his first in Switzerland and will comprise over 120 original drawings, prints, adapted photographs and animations.

until 29 October 2017
Christoph Niemann That’s How!
Cartoonmuseum Basel
St. Alban-Vorstadt 28, Basel
Curator: Anette Gehrig

Left: Christoph Niemann, Champ de Mars 1, 2017. Right: Christoph Niemann, Champ de Mars 2, 2017. © Christoph Niemann

Left: Christoph Niemann, Toothbrush, Cover for American Illustration, XX 2001. Right: Christoph Niemann, Cover for The New Yorker, 2016. © Christoph Niemann

Left: Christoph Niemann, Sunday Sketchings, Abrams New York, 2016. Right: Christoph Niemann, Trump, The New Yorker, 2015. © Christoph Niemann