b. 1988 in Bensheim, lives and works in Düsseldorf

Body and corporeality are omnipresent subjects in art and are thus also negotiated in the medium of painting. For Björn Knapp, a graduate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, they form the focus of his artistic work and his pictorial interest.
Colourful, fleshy surfaces stretch across the canvas and encounter their viewers. Yet the bodies depicted are neither representation nor reference in their form. Rather, they pose the question of a shift, a change in the gaze. How do we look at bodies, with what sensitivity do we deal with them? Conscious of his own position as a white, male painter, Björn Knapp does not use the established narratives of art history, but feels the need to show new unoccupied bodies. Figures and forms that do not reproduce the "Male Gaze", but suggest a new corporeality instead of using the historical canon.