Bjorn Basen

Born in 1981, in Eggedal, Norway. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany. The subculture, whether contemporary or past, gives the opportunity to remove yourself from the common world and immerge into a society that suits your needs better. The subculture can be everything from the urban underground-life in the mega-cities of today to the secret life of the aristocratic society of old Europe.My work introduces the concept of subculture into a personal mythology both visually and thematically. A mythology based on a decadent and deteriorating world, in which I treat the ceremonies and extravaganza of the nobility and bourgeois-society of the western world.