The studio is an artistic/scientific interface run by Norman Maýn. B36 is the German location of the studio south of Berlin. The studio focuses on new approaches to crossmedia art as well as artistic research. The work of the studio is directly linked to the artistic work and approach of Norman Maýn and at the same time an open medium for exchange between different disciplines of art, design, research and sustainability with focus on human animal and human nature relationship. Norman Maýn is a German based Berlin-born visual artist, creating in interconnected media like installation, room, video, painting, photography, object and sound with a focus on Human-Animal Studies. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he graduated with honors.
The obvious lack of a comprehensive description of the postmodern world is translated in his visual language through reduction and omission, but also a grasp of fragile, almost diffusing moments. Non-colors and raw materials determine the visual appearance. The „tortured creature“ in the form of animals or nature and human caused sorrow became central themes. A veil of memories seems to lie over his works, hiding fragments of questions and answers about life and death. In his installations he observes the intense space between viewers and viewed and contrasts the supposed roles of living beings. His artistic position is characterized by intimate but direct sceneries, using the room as instrument to confront work with audience and audience with the work, so that the essencial meaning and interpretation is fluid, fleeting and more time based. His work is based on deep research and binary codes.
This site provides an overview of the studio's work, selected exhibitions, works and updates about recent projects such as future plans like the founding and building of a permanent studio location in Andalusia, dedicated to Maýn's interest and work focus in and on the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula with it’s moorish influences, mixing and melting cultures, nature, music and of course art.
