Artist at Favori Art
Olli Boehm
Contemporary Visual Artist · Overpainted Photography & Fine Art Photography
Olli Boehm works at the intersection of photography, painting and digital processing. His images read like quiet narratives: light, mood and composition are never merely “beautiful” but carry meaning, with blur, reflections and deliberately admitted imperfections.
Biography
About Olli Boehm
Born in 1967, he found his way into the creative world early: training and studies in photography, followed by a long career in advertising and media, from graphic designer to art and creative direction to directing commercials. In 2008 came the break: the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, the loss of stability and the return to independent art. Today, in a wheelchair, Boehm works with the camera as a precise, sensitive instrument to make inner states and the overlooked visible.
His overpainted photography is characteristic: photo prints (often on canvas) are reworked by hand and/or digitally, layered and condensed. This visual language was inspired by Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Leiter and Gerhard Richter, among others, as a dialogue between reality and memory.
Boehm lives and works in Bavaria and has been exhibiting for many years (a selection includes Munich as well as stops across Germany and Switzerland). His creative career has also been accompanied by mentions and awards from the advertising and design world, including nominations at Cannes Lions and the New York Festivals and awards such as the Red Dot, ITVA and Golden Drum.
Exhibitions, Awards & Career Highlights
- 1967Born
- Exhibitions in Munich, among other places, and across Germany and Switzerland
- 2026FAVORI No. 1: Genesis, Schloss Gleina
- Photo book “SENTIMENT – Fotografische Bildwelten” (Photographic Image Worlds)
- Advertising & DesignNominations at Cannes Lions and New York Festivals
- Advertising & DesignAwards including Red Dot, ITVA and Golden Drum
Work groups
Between Photography, Memory and Perception
Olli Boehm’s art moves between photography, digital collage and painterly image editing. People, places and fleeting situations are the starting point of his work. Through blur, overlays, typographic elements and layered textures, however, he releases the photographic motif from its original clarity.
The result is pictorial spaces in which outer reality and inner perception interlock. The human being appears as a fleeting trace in urban space, as a fragile counterpart, or as an individual searching for freedom, belonging and self-determination.
The following groups of works open different approaches to Olli Boehm’s artistic practice.
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