Conceptual nominee

What if we are confronted with an object that transcends our grasp? How would we approach it? One way could be to fathom the unknown by mimesis – learning to understand by mimicking.

The wooden sculpture was made by the artist Kerstin Diedenhofen.

Christian Nowak was born in Northern Germany in 1971 and grew up in the small fishing town of Heiligenhafen. This did not stop him seeking out luck in the Elbe metropolis of Hamburg.
After successfully studying graphic design, Christian found himself in the colorful world of advertising, where he (as an employee at first and a co-owner of a multimedia agency later on) prepared boring content in an entertaining manner.
In 2012 Nowak turned his back on his former occupation and started the artistic exploration of human photography. Since then he has sharpened mind and eye, put his fingers into the wounds of our time and challenged social conventions with dedication - and sometimes, chutzpah.