Jørn Neumann

Born 15th of May in 1986 in Stralsund, Germany.

freelance artist/student of fine arts - currently living/working in the Hanseatic City of Greifswald... Addicted to the medium of filigrane drawings in Ink, Paper, Coffee, Blood, Fæces, Ashes, Rust and other "arte povera" materials... Addicted to the process of using his body in performances incorporating Nails, Rust, Terpentine, Blades, Oil, Fat, Blood, Eggs, Bone, Gas Masks and Pianos ...

"Moloch is the name of a god or a particular kind of child-sacrifice by fire associated historically with Phoenician and related cultures in north Africa and the Levant."

"derived from that: a merciless, all encompassing might as referred to metropoles."

"Moloch (Religion), biblische Bezeichnung für phönizische-kanaanäische Opferriten, die nach der biblischen Überlieferung die Opferung von Kindern durch Feuer vorsahen"

"davon abgeleitet eine gnadenlose, alles verschlingende Macht, im zivilisationskritischen Sinne auf Metropolen angewandt"

" ...my art ist the sacrifice of my ideals, youth and all I've ever loved into a simple piece of white paper - shardy fragments of imagination becoming nightmares from paper, canvas, ink or other "raw" materials - living, breathing molochs...

Currently studying Master of Fine Arts at the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Institute of the University of Greifswald.