Artsted Catalogue 2022

99 Future Blue-Chip Artists.
#90
WILLIAM GROB
“William Grob is a Berlin-based artist whose work has
always focused on the line between reality and the
psychic world. Working with mixed media, he collages,
paints onto photos, layers his work between the real
and the imagined. Often employing text that makes
no sense and all of it at the same time, he reminds us
of our constant internal monologues when faced with
banal situations in everyday life. His work is fraught
with satire: from New York street scenes highlighting
the prevalence of homelessness against a backdrop
of consumerist culture, to projecting thoughts of strangers
on trains, there is always an element of levity in
their loneliness”. Julia Hoove.
“I was an artist before I could talk. When I was a child
I had a severe speech disorder that shaped my whole
life, as I could not verbally express myself until the age
of seven. Art became my mother tongue, using colour
and form to express my happiness or frustration which
is now, subconsciously, deep-rooted into my practice.
The majority of my work comes from that place. All I
consciously try to create is a sense of understanding
and expressions understandable to anyone.”
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