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Clemens Behr, born in in Koblenz, Germany, is a Berlin-based artist with a background in graphic design from the University of Applied Sciences in.!
Cities // Sprouting Urban Dadaism: An Interview with Clemens Behr
Article by Alice Bardos // May 24, 2016
Clemens Behr is a Berlin-based street installation artist originally from the small historical west German city of Koblenz.
His works are heavily influenced by three aesthetic streams: architecture, street art and graphic design.
Clemens Behr (b.
The artist’s simultaenously constructive and destructive sculptures have been planted in interior and exterior environments internationally. They draw off of the local geometry of cities like New York, Saint Petersburg and Marrakech, as well as the energy and orientations of the inhabiting people.
Heavily inspired by dadaism, Clemens Behr’s works challenge the impressions that the buildings, from which his installations grow, leave on the general public.
To the artist, it is the reception of his work that acts as a mirror of the audience’s specific sociocultural identity. However, a common visual thread in his art is the look of having been caught by