Otto Boll

About Otto Boll

The German contemporary sculptor Otto Boll creates work in a distinctly minimalist style. His delicate steel sculptures resemble floating lines cutting through the air. In this way, the artist plays with the tension between presence and absence, the visible and the invisible, the material and the intangible.

His works evoke a sense of emptiness, which for him represents, time and again, a possible new beginning of something. The viewer is invited to experience the work from different angles and, in doing so, to see the space around them change as well. His sculptures are, in fact, sculptural events activated by the viewer's own perception.

Language plays a very important role in Boll's oeuvre, or as he describes it himself: “work and words come together”. The idea of ​​a dialogue is very important in relation to his work. Otto Boll tries to challenge the viewer to find words for what he feels and sees. Through his work, he hopes that the viewer is able to describe his own view of the space he is in, and therefore of the world.

Born in 1952.