Helmut Böning

Born in 1953 I studied after high school arts - first at the "HFBK Hamburg" (Prof. Paul Wunderlich) and finally
in Munich (Prof. Friedrich Piel) During the studies my main emphases were surrealism, dadaismus, psychology
and semeiotics. Particularly Marcel Duchamps and his "ready mades" led me to mine maggot bachelor work
"the mutual relation of art and advertising" For this I got an award and first offers from advertising agencies,
starting with a career in the advertising business. So, a period as a wanderer between these two different worlds
started for the next 23 years.

I worked for international agencies as Young& Rubicam, Ogilvy&Mather, GGK, Lintas - (just to name a few) in
Munich, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, New York, Paris and got many awards, medals.In 1994 I founded my own agency
"Böning&Haube",we were the "Newcomer agency of the year, germany" elected in 1996 and for the following
years, advertising was more and more in my focus, until I seriously got ill.After several ear deceases I had to find
my individual reset button.

This was the radical turn around back for my paintings. A parallelworld employs me from this time searching for
a translation of nightmares, hope,dreams, freedom, symbols of mythical creatu...

- Paris
- Hamburg
- München
- Bremen
- Düsseldorf
- Wismar
- Göttingen
- Bochum etc.