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Studio Maýn is an artistic and scientific interface run by Norman Maýn, German based, Berlin-born artist and designer, creating transmedially in installation, film, painting, photography and sound in fields such as Bio-Ethics and Human-Animal Studies. He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts UdK in the areas of Visual Communication, Design and Media Art and has completed various training courses in animal- and nature conservation. His works ritually address an archaic primal pain, the discrepancies and areas of tension in human existence and work on earth in the context of a saturated and at the same time empty society. The clear lack of comprehensive descriptions of the postmodern world is translated in Mayn's visual language particularly through a reduction and omission, but also a grasp of fragile and seemingly quickly diffusing moments. Non-colors and raw materials determine the overall visual appearance. The tortured creature and human caused sorrow on earth became the central themes. A veil of memories seems to lie over Maýn's works, hiding fragments of questions and answers life, death and how everything is connected. Traces that are worth searching and reading.

Official short profile: Norman Maýn, born and grown up in Berlin, studied at the University of Arts Berlin UdK, where he particularly attracted attention with his graduate Work GHOSTS, 9-Channel-Video-Installation in a huge dog kennel, that showed looped videos of mistreated dogs in Spain and was complemented by paintings, photographies, artifacts and texts. He works nearly in every media while is focusing on fields like Human-Animal Studies and Bioethics. He is well known for using high contrast and often modified or burned materials like steel, stones, wood and a visual appearance that is characterized by non-colors black, white and grey and elements like fences and cages.