ABOUT ME
What does someone like that actually do and why and how does he get there???
Digital meets paintbrush
I work at the interface between the digital and analog visual worlds.
My motifs come from the endless stream of online images, which I consciously and meticulously transfer back into the material world.
Using brushes, acrylic paint and screen printing, I create works on large-format canvases that raise no questions about originality, authenticity and perception in the digital age.
This is how images are created in which pixels transform into color – and the virtual becomes tangible again. My work combines the digital present with painterly presence.
exhibitions
Current / Upcoming
QUADART BOTTROP 2025/26
23.11-11.01.2026
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Bottrop
More to follow >>
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past exhibitions
Exhibitions & art fairs
resume
> born 1966 in Fritzlar
> since 1969 whole Essener
> Graduated from high school in Essen
> Apprenticeship as a graphic designer at E/P-Hennig in D'Dorf
> Among other things in the studio Michael Schirner D'Dorf
> Additional training as a lithographer at E/S/N in D'Dorf
> 1995 self-employed with B&B Design Wuppertal
> 1998 co-founder of the substance advertising agency in Essen
> During this time several awards for direct mails
> Since 2001 owner & Founder of B4:Media GmbH
> Back in art since 2017
> Since 2022 at many exhibitions & Art fairs on the way
statement
about art…
What is art? Where does it begin and where does it end?
Legitimate questions – but perhaps only for those who desperately need answers.
Art has many faces. One artist wants to make a clear statement, another to show the beauty that moves them. Still others want to provoke, stimulate thought, or initiate change.
For me, art is all of that – a mirror, a tool, a language. It is increasingly becoming the voice of our time, a medium that makes injustices visible and gives form to emotions. When art is silent, the world is lost.
My motivations are a mixture of provocation, remembrance, and admiration. I focus on people who have left their mark – on personalities who move, irritate, or inspire. I show them as I perceive them: raw, direct, authentic.
I'm not reinventing the wheel. I'm simply drawing on the endless world of images on the internet – the digital deluge that surrounds us daily – and bringing them back into the analog world.
This back-translation is my form of transformation: from the digital to the haptic, from pixel to color, from the speed of data to the stillness of the brush.
The essential often reveals itself in black and white – where contrasts make truth visible.
Fine Arts
08.2022 - Lembeck Castle,
Dorsten
Art Trail 2022
September 2022 - In Garage 13, 45127 Essen
Art Fair Brussels 2022
25th -27th 11 2022, -Brussels Expo
Brussels, Belgium
Collective Exhibition
13th-20th 01 2023 - Galeria de Arte Gaudi
Madrid, Spain
Monaco Art Fair 2023
08.2023 - Chapter of Fontvieille
Monaco
QUADART BOTTROP 2023/24
November 26 - January 7, 2023
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Bottrop
Studio Exhibition Bottrop
04.2024 - Collective exhibition:
Dirk Max Schwaertzel & Carsten Breuer - new pix
Bottrop
Studio Exhibition Bottrop
07.2024 - Collective exhibition:
Kartin Brackmann & Carsten Breuer - new pix
Bottrop
Atelier Einzel-Ausstellung Bottrop
11.2024 - Einzelausstellung: Carsten Breuer Provokation vs. Tabu
Bottrop
QUADART BOTTROP 2024/25
26.11-07.01.2024
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Bottrop
Discovery art fair Cologne 2025
03.04 - 06.04.2025 - XPOST
Cologne
Solo exhibition Hästens Düsseldorf
June 12 - September 27, 2025 - Hästens
Düsseldorf
Aston Martin meeting on the Königsallee
August 29th - August 30th, 2025 - Hotel Kö59
Düsseldorf
Klose Gallery
September 6th-7th, 2025 - In Garage 13
Essen
Art MUC October 2025
from 10.10. - October 12, 2025 - MTC Locations
Munich
QUADART BOTTROP 2025/2026
23.11-11.01.2026
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat
Bottrop
Exhibition at the law firm of Dirk & Birthe Fischer - 09.2022
Essen
Autumn collective "Pareidolias" 2022
08.11 - 26.12.2022 - GALERÌA UXVAL GOCHEZ
Barcelona, Spain
Art Basel Miami 2022
09.11 - 12.12.2022 -Artbox.Project Miami 3.0
As part of Miami Artweek 2022
Miami USA
Art Madrid 2023
02.2023 - Cibeles Palace's Crystal Gallery,
(Award Winner 2023)
Madrid, Spain
Opening NEW Atelier Bottrop
10.2023 - Opening
Bottrop
Studio Exhibition Bottrop
03.2024 - Collective exhibition:
J. Küpperfahrenberg & Carsten Breuer - new pix
Bottrop
Art Award - Art Basel 2024
Award Winner 2024 (Burger on Moon)
from June 13th to June 16th, 2024 at Art Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Kulturkirche Heilig Kreuz eV Bottrop
August 2-25, 2024 - Solo exhibition with new works
Bottrop
Little van Gogh Gallery
11.2024 - Solo exhibition:
Carsten Breuer - Portraits
Bad Honnef
Art3F Luxembourg Gallery Art Fair 2025
27.03.-30.03.2025 - LuxExpo The Box,
LUXEMBOURG
Art MUC May 2025
01.05.-04.05.2025 - MTC Locations
Munich
Group exhibition Artists' Association Bottrop Good Times
24.05.-28.06.2025 - VHS Bottrop
Bottrop
Sarah Stock Gallery
September 5th - September 15th, 2025 - At Sevens Königsallee Düsseldorf
Bottrop Artists' Association
06.09.-04.10.2025 - Im STÜCK.gut Bottrop,
Bottrop
Sarah Stock Gallery
Porsche Special Exhibition
October 12th - October 20th, 2025 - At Sevens Königsallee
Düsseldorf
