Ilja Freer

The self-taught painter, Ilja Freer, processes many stages of his life in abstract acrylic paintings. He was born in Berlin in 1976 and has enjoyed painting and drawing since he was a little boy. In the 90's he experienced the fall of the Berlin wall as a teenager. Everywhere in the city something new developed almost overnight. He and his friends took care of the mostly gray facades of the city and designed them as colorful works of art as a graffiti artist. That was his contribution during this time to make the city more colorful and to make it a place where everyone who wants to change something is welcome. Since 2019 he has swapped the spray cans for spatulas and brushes again. He experiments a lot with color and technique in his work as an artist. He likes to play intuitively with the deviating norm from reality.