Remembering Pokhara

Nicholas Ganz was born in 1976 in the Ruhr city of Essen. He now works as a visual artist and author in Berlin. His first reading experience was captivated by ‘The NeverEnding Story’ by Michael Ende. The graphic representation of the book with its two text colours and the chapter illustrations by Roswitha Quadflieg made a great impression on him. Since then he photographed and drew again and again, until he began spraying his first graffiti on house walls in 1994. He bought his first SLR camera and found two tools that are still with him today. He successfully completed an apprenticeship as a sign painter and obtained a vocational baccalaureate in design. He remained artistically self-taught. Just a few years after his first street art pictures, he began to develop further and try out new techniques. He drew with pencil or ink and painted on canvas with oil or acrylic. These mixed techniques still characterize a large part of his portfolio today. He combines street art techniques with classical painting and his works are based on the reality of people's lives or deal with philosophical or political analyses. He likes to tell stories and reflect his own world of thought in his paintings. After many years of anonymous artistic activity in the street, in 2023 he focused increasingly on works on canvas and tried out new visual imagery. In 2024, he presented these new works to an audience for the first time.