An Erb (fck_thesystem) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Leipzig, Germany.
Their work spans photography, tattooing and painting; often merging these mediums to form a distinctive and cohesive practice.
Their art explores the relationships between line and form, structure and texture, as well as the interplay of light and shadow. Focusing on the body and the absence of colour, Erb’s practice combines analogue and digital media to create pictorial or corporeal landscapes that seek harmony through chaos.
The coalescence of their artistic endeavors and becoming process alludes to the mindset behind the art: fck_thesystem is more than provoking tradition and structure. At its core, Erb’s artistic ethos extends beyond merely challenging tradition and structure. It embodies a mindset — one that is dark yet unapologetically queer, almost posthuman, and decidedly poststructural. It is an embrace of fluidity over fixed meaning, an appropriation of disorder, and above all, a commitment to the ever-shifting flux of existence and creation.
Their work spans photography, tattooing and painting; often merging these mediums to form a distinctive and cohesive practice.
Their art explores the relationships between line and form, structure and texture, as well as the interplay of light and shadow. Focusing on the body and the absence of colour, Erb’s practice combines analogue and digital media to create pictorial or corporeal landscapes that seek harmony through chaos.
The coalescence of their artistic endeavors and becoming process alludes to the mindset behind the art: fck_thesystem is more than provoking tradition and structure. At its core, Erb’s artistic ethos extends beyond merely challenging tradition and structure. It embodies a mindset — one that is dark yet unapologetically queer, almost posthuman, and decidedly poststructural. It is an embrace of fluidity over fixed meaning, an appropriation of disorder, and above all, a commitment to the ever-shifting flux of existence and creation.
// artistic activities
- ...when everything was black (n0ndescript), Coverdesign, 2024
- Demut (David Novell) Musikvideo: Art Direction & Super 8, 2023
- Courage (Phyll Magazine), Fotoprojekt more FLAWless, digitale Veröffentlichung, 2022
- Negative Nancy (Akela1), Coverdesign, 2021
- Liebe in den Zeiten von Corona, Gruppenausstellung in Die Fliesengalerie,
Videoperformance Dimension'21, Leipzig 28.04 - 02.05.2021
- ff001 (frohfroh), Coverdesign, 2020
- Das Erotik Magazin NR3 - Erotik + Struktur, 2020
- Bodyflex, Gruppenausstellung im HaMo, Leipzig 11.-13.10.2019
self portrait, manipulated polaroid, 04/24
