artistic projects, excerpt
11/2024 Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, We Are Art, group exhibition
10/2024 Art in Hyperspace, urban exhibition
09/2024 48 Pillars of Society, urban exhibition
07/2024 Galerie Blech, group exhibition Tropical Heins
04/2024 Landesbühnen Sachsen, When Robert Disappeared, theater performance, Radebeul
10/2023 Pierre Grasse, music performance, Halle
08/2023 Büro Für, Tropical Heins, group exhibition, Halle
08/2023 Kunsthalle Ost, Merzbau #2, solo exhibition, Leipzig
08/2023 UT-Connewitz, Brundibar, children's opera, Leipzig
06/2023 Local Stories, Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, group exhibition, Halle
05/2023 Galerie Goethe45, group exhibition, Bremerhaven
10/2022 Kulturkiosk Blohmstraße, City-Loop Machine #2, Hamburg
09/2022 Nasty Alice, group exhibition, Eindhoven, NL
05/2022 RUbug – Festival for Urban Art, Gelsenkirchen
02/2022 Reykjavik Independent Film Festival, Selection, Iceland
12/2021 Kunstkiosk Herr Fleischer, City-Loop Machine, Halle
10/2021 Prague International Film Awards, Prague
09/2021 Prague Music Video Awards, Prague
09/2021 Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Let’s Talk, Halle
07/2021 Künstlerhaus 188, MACH Festival, Halle
05/2021 Room-Boom Festival, Schkeuditz
Education
2018 - 2020 MA Degree in Illustration, HAW Hamburg
2009 - 2015 BA Degree in Communication Design, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
2012 - 2013 Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Istanbul
Scholarships
09/2021 VG-Bildkunst, Neustart Kultur, work scholarship
09/2020 Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt – six-month work scholarship
05/2017 Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt, Goethe-Institut S.D.B. – work scholarship
02/2016 Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt – work scholarship
12/2015 Goethe-Institut Istanbul – scholarship for Graphic Short Stories
Awards / Nominations
02/2022 Selection, Reykjavik Independent Film Festival
09/2021 Selection, Prague International Film Awards
09/2021 Selection, Prague Music Video Award
05/2018 1st Prize, MACH Festival, Halle
05/2017 1st Prize, MACH Festival, Halle
06/2016 2nd Place, Short Film Competition, One-Take Festival, Vienna
10/2015 Nomination, Burg Giebichenstein, Design Award Halle
Project Focus
urban art, audiovisual art
illustration, print and web design
workshops: art, graffiti, street art
Artistic Profile
The artistic work of Gunther Schumann, also known as Square Boy, focuses on narrative drawings and conceptual urban art. Many of his creative projects are characterized by an interdisciplinary approach.
In 2016, he created the music video Die Grauen Herren, featuring costumed performers in a stylized cardboard environment, linking this setting with hip-hop music culture. The four-minute film was screened at several national film festivals.
Another example of this experimental approach is the project Street-Comic, realized through a scholarship from the Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and the Goethe-Institut. The project resulted in an eight-minute animated film following a street-art character through the urban landscape of Salvador. Street-Comic combines street art techniques such as paste-ups and graffiti with traditional stop-motion puppet animation.
His current project, City-Loops, addresses the issue of limited space in major cities and is designed as a traveling exhibition for urban environments. It includes around 30 large-format wooden panels displayed in public spaces.
Artistic exhibitions are just as central to Square Boy’s work as international art projects. In addition to his visual artistic activities, he is also active as a music producer in the fields of electronic music and hip-hop.
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Merzbau #2
art installation
Honeybadger
wall design
Box monsters
Cardboard sculptures
Maljam
mural
La Bim
mural
penguens
Paste-Up / Street-Art
