Visual Artist with a Background in Computer Science
the artist vita of Björn Nonhoff.
Since 1999 I have been working continuously as a visual artist, focusing on watercolour and acrylic painting. Almost every year I present my work in solo exhibitions or as part of group shows.
My visual language is shaped by a love of modern art and by experimenting with colour, form and expression. For many years an important place for my work was my studio Atelier Nord in Moosach; today I continue this path in Grafing. I also served for many years on the board of the Kunstverein Ebersberg.
Alongside painting I write and illustrate my own books, in which image and text complement and enrich one another. I see my artistic practice as an ongoing process, carried by personal experience, close observation and a continuous search for aliveness.
In parallel I work as an Agile Coach in the field of IT in a global Dax30 company. This perspective on change, communication and people inspires and nourishes my artistic work. From time to time I use the creative process to digest, recover and reflect the immens input I get in those teams and structures, which struggle to offer a inspiring work environment.
mein Jahrgang – 9 no 9
- Computer Science at Technical University Munich
- Atelier Nord
- atelier zeitreich
- vortex gallery
- studio atelier 13a
- … next
art publications
- punkt
- der vogel, der den regen liebt
- liebend gerne liebend – poetry and fairytales
- in Produktion: Komm mir nicht zu nah – Gedichte und Gemälde
Solo shows
- 2003 love – Atelier 4, Waging
- 2005 gallery hasi
- 2017 like my heart – Sirtl, Grafing
- 2018 Freiheit – Rampe, Kunstverein Ebersberg
- 2019 flowers – Rampe, Kunstverein Ebersberg
- 2020 white – painting behind the mask – Kunstverein Ebersberg
- 2021 birds – Rampe, Kunstverein Ebersberg
- 2022 dandelions, – Rampe, Kunstverein Ebersberg
- 2024 Performance mit Irmgard Huber, Ebersberg
- 2025 Komm mir nicht zu nah, Gallerie Riederer
Group exhibitions
- 2017 gemago – sculptures & paintings and words in glonn, germany
- 2018 yearly exhibition ebersberg – the book
- 2019 yearly exhibition ebersberg – video installation
For me, art is a space of joy. It opens new worlds, makes us wonder and brings people together. I’m not so interested in theoretical concepts or tightly sealed ego-universes – I’m much more drawn to beauty, lightness and play.
Most of my paintings begin with curiosity and a willingness to experiment – again and again in dialogue with others. I don’t see art as something that should separate or intimidate, but as something to share, to pass on, to connect with.
Art, for me, is both experiment and expression. It starts with a small impulse, grows like a seed and finds its form in the moment. Lines, colours and textures mirror inner movements and invite us to look at our own life, growth and fading in a gentler way.
Art can help us understand, connect and be moved. It builds little bridges between people, opens spaces for conversation and makes visible what often remains unspoken.
If my work manages to create a pause, a breath, a thought – or even a quiet smile – then it has already done a good job. I don’t want art that only catches the eye; I hope it also reaches the heart, as an invitation to see the world, and yourself, a little differently.
Since 2020 moved to aquarell on high quality paper in different formats. Experimenting with digital art and ai since 2000. Never went famous – but the ai video shows and ai images created durinf 2022 till 2026 have its unique style. The digital art is presented in several collections on objkt.com/@nonanon – world largest digital aquarell art colletion.
A large selection of aquarell artworks is displayed in the art book “Komm mir nicht zu nah” published in 2025. It is combined with finest german poetry.
1 Comment
bnonhoff · February 12, 2019 at 0:13
art is art as a rose is a rose. But both are contemporary.