Johannes Wohnseifer (B. 1967)

‘A ‘personal system meeting a historical system’, [Johannes] Wohnseifer’s work warps our sense of historical memory, personalizing the un-personal into objects that he calls ‘time-traps’. It’s as if he has created an outlet for becoming a part of the spiralling gyres of history, by creating personal re-makes of it. And though his topics are political, the artist is not. ‘My art is not going to convert a neo-nazi into a nice guy’. Even so, I still think of Wohnseifer as a kind of crusader… perhaps against that existing form of German-ness which is no longer very German’ (A. Lamm, ‘A Detour into the Cul-de-Sac of Ever-never-land’, in Art Review, March 2005, reproduced at https://www.johannkoenig.de/3/johannes_wohnseifer/texts.html).