Jim Avignon

We don’t want a solution because we like the problem

TYPO Berlin 2014 ROOTS | Friday, 16 May | 4:00 pm | Hall | German

Jim Avignon is known here in Germany above all as an experimental painter and musician and, more recently, also as a media artist who has often dealt with the medium script in his work.

His designs have given many large campaigns a face, his works hang in museums and collections, but Avignon also exhibits in clubs and basement galleries and appears to gain a special kind of energy from doing so. In his talk, Avignon – who works without an agency and without a studio, will be talking about the highlights and the perils of his unusual professional life and telling us how, in most cases, the problem can be seen as part of the solution.

Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon is one of the most extraordinary figures in the German art scene today. He is a painter, a musician, a performer, a host and curator, and has built a career that consists of these components. Avignon paints a lot, and he paints fast. He calls himself “the fastest…

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