12 Facts About Arvid Boecker

Arvid Boecker is a representative of concrete art and focuses on color field painting.

Arvid Boecker studied from 1987 to 1989 at the University of Trier Art history, continuing his studies at the Hochschule der Bildenden Kunste Saar in Saarbrucken.

Since 1996 Boecker has been a member of the Saarlandischer Kunstlerbund and since 2019 he is a member of the Kunstlerbund Baden-Wurttemberg.

Arvid Boecker uses oil paint, which he manufactures himself from pigments and applies to canvas.

Since priming the canvases requires long drying times, Arvid Boecker always creates entire rows of canvasses with the same dimensions, on which he then alternately works.

Arvid Boecker determines right at the beginning how he deals with the surface, dividing it up for certain color applications.

Arvid Boecker uses squeegees to remove older layers of paint or applies new layers of paint with the painting knife.

Arvid Boecker often interrupts the work on a painting to give it time to dry.

Arvid Boecker is creator and destroyer in one, lets arise and extinguishes again, creates and rejects.

In 2016 Arvid Boecker created a triptych for the Stiftskirche Sunnisheim in Sinsheim, consisting of three pictures of the same format, which were created especially for this room.

Since 2015 Arvid Boecker has a project room in Heidelberg - boeckercontemporary.

Arvid Boecker's intention is to establish a "place of encounter with contemporary art" in Heidelberg.