The artist Andreas Grahl has chosen the world of objects as his sphere of action. Throughout his whole oeuvre he puts ordinary things in completely new contexts.

He changes proportions, materials or pretty well-known situations in a way that the viewer at least stops short if not even calls habitual perceptions into question. Often he is employing humor to take away the logical reasoning and rationality from common objects. In doing so, he is giving new sense or sensuousness, sometimes even more relevance to them.

Since his studies of photography he applies himself to the phenomenom of light that he examines in very different ways. A series of objects reminding of old-fashioned luminous advertising have lost their messages, instead their neon lights are just spreading glares. His ‚Angle Protector‘ whom´s more or less practical function is to take care of a room´s angle also reflects its surrounding in a highly aesthetical manner.

For his recent body of work Andreas Grahl is distorting the design of commonplace items or combines objects that usually do not really belong together to create surprising works of art: An outsized black plug becomes the head and an ultralarge platter becomes the body of his character ‚James‘ - a black slave

wearing a white livery and a huge nose ring. Another startling sculpture is ‚Irene‘, a aluminium casting of a blown up hot-water bottle, that doubles over in pain like a pregnant woman having contractions - a lifeless object seems to be a sensitive being.

By means of his manipulations Andreas Grahl transposes the images of the reality, being reputed to be objective ones, into the sphere of art and confronts the public with his subversive views on the world.