Johannes Christopher Gerard

The subjects of my work and artistic concepts address the relationships between people and their urban, social, and cultural environments. The focus is on topics such as identity, transitions, boundaries, time, emptiness, and loneliness. Topics such as mental disorders, sexuality, and gender are also addressed. In recent years, philosophical ideas and autobiographical elements have increasingly flowed into the implementation of these themes. The stylistic elements used range from conceptual, minimalist, metaphorical, symbolic, and abstract to realism. The goal is to isolate, catalog, analyze, and examine these themes or objects in detail. The context in which they are located is explored in depth, as are how they differ from place to place, neighbor-hood, or community. Finally, how they relate to one another and are interconnected is examined.
Therefore, I pay particular attention to the obvious and subtle details in the environments we create or inhabit. My interpretations are ultimately embedded experiments through alternating observations and analyses of our visible and invisible environment and our human behavior.

Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design,(today IADT), Dublin, Ireland
School of Graphic Design and Print, Cologne, Germany

Regular participation in exhibitions, projects, video and film festivals in Taiwan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, ,India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Dubai, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic,
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Italy, Malta, Cyprus, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Namibia, Ghana, Bolivia, Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Mexico,
Ecuador, Honduras, Cuba, Canada, Puerto Rico, USA, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Armenia and Russia .