Norman Maýn (*1990 in Berlin), Visual- and Media Artist lives and works in Germany and Spain, between Berlin, Lusatia, and Andalusia. He studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) among others, in the Class for Moving Image and Media Art with Anna Anders and Manja Ebert, graduating with honors. His work focuses on the fragile relationship between humans, animals, nature, and their cultural manifestations in our postmodern world. To develop a deeper understanding of comprehensive works with critical and didactic standards, he also studied Visual Communication in the Campaigns class with Barbara Kotte. His first comprehensive work group, „GHOSTS“, was created between both areas and attracted attention even during his graduation – a large-scale installation oscillating between art and documentation, about violence and the systematic mass killing of Spanish greyhounds in Andalusia and the Canary Islands. He participated in numerous exhibitions during his studies, his first solo exhibition, „Fieldnotes“, at the Berlin Galerie MET, followed immediately after graduation in 2025. Norman Maýn primarily works in complex, conceptual groups of works.
In addition to his artistic work, he has researches in the fields of art and ritual, as well as the manifestation of (male) violence against non-human animals, particularly in academic essays on machismo on the Iberian Peninsula. Maýn's working method is characterized by combinations of unusual artistic practices and areas, such as collaborations with institutions, researchers, and companies, to enable intense experiences, for example, through microorganisms, plants, scent molecules, light, or sound. In his installations, he explores the intense moment between viewer and viewed, contrasting the assumed roles of living beings and environmental systems. His artistic position is characterized by intimate yet direct scenarios that use space as an instrument of diffuse confrontation, so that essential meanings and interpretations are fleeting and time-based. His work is grounded in intensive research and binary narratives. Maýn is known for his courageous, unsparing responses to critical, uncompromising questions of our time.