Benno Soekeland

Benno Sökeland lives and works in Sassenberg, Westphalia. He completed his studies in visual communication at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, in particular illustration with Prof. Karl-Heinz Meyer and painting with Klaus Singhoff, in 1982 as a qualified designer.

He worked as a designer and layout artist in various advertising agencies and founded the freelance design office Sökeland Advertising | Design in 1998. His customers are companies from industry, services, trade and crafts as well as social organizations.

He has been working with art again for several years and has shown his work in numerous exhibitions at home and abroad in Spain, England, France, the USA and Brazil. He is a member of the Warendorf art circle and the pART 96 artist community in Münster.

Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences Dipl.-Designer
Graduated as a qualified designer

Solo exhibition (excerpts)
2019 “Brainwashing”, Historic Town Hall,
Kunstkreis Warendorf e.V.
2019 “Speech Bubbles”, Galerie Kleine Schatzkiste, Münster
2017 “The world is beautiful”, Torhaus Legge, Tecklenburg
2014 Gallery art colori, Gütersloh

Group exhibitions /Excerpts)
2021 Kulturbogen – pomost kultury, 30 years of Lublin-Münster, pART96
2019 “Catch The Time” VHS Münster, pART 96
2019 ART & PEACE
Regency Hotel, Monastir, Tunisia, pART 96
2017 “Transitory art”, Katara Cultural Village
Doha, Qatar curated by USIA
2017 “ART Berlin City” Intern. art fair,
Atrium, internal. Friedrichstrasse trading center, Berlin
2016 “UNTIEFEN” foyer of the Münster regional council, pART 96
2016 “My Mask” Gallery Art Stalker, Berlin
2015 B.AGL ART afFAIRs, Postbahnhof Berlin
curated by Art Stalker Gallery
2015 Show de Bola at B.AGL ART afFAIRs, Postbahnhof Berlin
curated by Leda Maria do Prado
2014 “FETT” AREO Haus, pART 96, Münster
2014 “GNALK – Seen Listening Sights”
Münster University of Music, pART 96, Münster
2014 “Show de Bola” Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Project by the Wardnasse Gallery, New York
2014 “Traces” Cultural Association of Thuringia, Mühlhausen, pART 96
2013 33ème SALON Association des Artistes et Créateurs d’Art d’Ol...