Blurring Boundaries

It was back in the 1980s when Hendrik ecb Beikirch held a can of spray paint for the first time. He wielded it like a vandal, leaving graffiti on trains until he took on the art establishment, replacing the metallic Surfaces of public transport vehicles with canvas, wood, and concrete. By that point, the only link Beikirch maintained to his illicit past was his pseudonym: the three letters connecting his firs and family names.

Today, Beikkirch is most famously known for his remarkably personal portrait paintings, depicted on large-scale, skyscraping murals and canvases that each tell a story.

And now, his first monograph “Blurring Boundaries”tells the story of the artist hinself. The book covers Beikirch’s works over the years, from those created in his studio in Germany to the statement piece in South Korea’s mega city Busan, where he painted Asia’s tallest mural to date. In this way, Beikirch is blurring boundaries and extending the limits of graffiti to a yet unknown level.