Artists

Christoph Niemann

Press release

Internationally acclaimed illustrator, author and visual artist, Christoph Niemann presents his first solo exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska, in collaboration with Diogenes Verlag. Born in 1970 in Waiblingen, Germany, Niemann studied graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Heinz Edelmann, completing his degree in 1997 before relocating to New York City. A long-standing contributor to The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine as a columnist, National Geographic, and The New Yorker, for which he has created over 30 covers, Niemann's work has also appeared in Wired, Newsweek, and Zeit Magazin, among others. For The New Yorker he designed the magazine's first augmented reality cover in 2016 and produced a hand-drawn 360-degree VR animation for its US Open issue. His illustrated column ran first as Abstract City beginning in 2008, before moving to The New York Times Magazine in 2011 under the title Abstract Sunday. After eleven years in New York, Niemann relocated to Berlin, where he continues to live and work. His practice has expanded well beyond editorial illustration to encompass animation, site-specific installation, interactive digital work, and fine art printmaking.