Mark Bohle
Stuttgart, Germany, 1986
About
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Playfulness and curiosity are the fundamental driving forces that lie at the heart of Mark Bohle’s artistic practice. A multifaceted artist, his trajectory spans from graffiti to graphic design, shaping a personal visual language that blends pop-culture icons, typography, and everyday iconography to create unexpected compositions that unsettle and surprise the viewer. His work moves within a deliberate balance between chaos and control. Drawing in his sketchbooks occupies a central place in his creative process: it is there that Bohle thinks through doing, experimenting and navigating the formal and conceptual possibilities of each project. From these apparently spontaneous sketches, the artist develops works that far from trivial embrace intuition, the immediacy of gesture, and the power of the accidental as the foundation of a practice that is both deeply conscious and committed.
Mark Bohle completed his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart before moving to Barcelona, where he is currently based. He is a lecturer in Visual Experimentation in the Beyond Branding master’s program at Elisava University and regularly gives lectures and workshops. Together with Nam Huynh, he runs the collaborative design studio N&MS. He has received numerous distinctions, including the Prix Espoir at the Chaumont Graphic Design Biennial and the Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prize at the Lahti Poster Triennial in Finland.
CV
SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
Lord Sandwich and the Bikini Roads, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2026)
The Wonky Tales of Goofy Castle, Taula, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
Taca Taca, Taca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2024)
Untitled, Colapso, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Speculative Grammar, Taca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2020)
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog, EspaiD, Barcelona, Spain (2017)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Spinorama, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2024)
Coatlicue, Te Quiero Mucho, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
Terra Rossa, DHub, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
Terra Rossa, Salone di Mobile, Milan, Italy (2024)
Kamanar, Space to be, Madrid, Spain (2023)
New languages of the German poster, International Poster Biennal Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico (2022)
Disco Not Disco, BMLK, Cottbus, Germany (2022)
Audio Graphic, MKG, Hamburg, Germany (2022)
Zine Library, Raum für Illustration, Hamburg, Germany (2019)
Stick It, RFI Gallery, Hamburg, Germany (2019)
Flumadiddle, Graphic Design Festival Scotland, Glasgow, UK (2017)
PUBLICATIONS
“Pica Pica”, published by Handshake (2024)
“Tonight At Merlin” with Raffael Kormann and Kulturzentrum Merlin, published by Prima (2020)
“Research Garden”, self published (2019)
SELECTED AWARDS
Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo (2025)
Demo Festival (2024)
First Prize Concurs pel disseny de l’enllumenat de Nadal de la ciutat de Barcelona (2024)
INTL Internatinal Assembly (2024)
International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont (2023)
Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo (2023)
Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo (2022)
Prix Nouveau, International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont (2021)
Type Directors Club Tokyo (2020)
100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz (2020)
Global Biennial of Graphic Design Golden Bee Moscow (2020)
International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont (2019)
Antwerp Poster Festival (2019)
Nomination, A Design Award (2018)
International Poster Biennial Warsaw (2018)
1st prize, Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Price, Lahti Poster Triennial (2017)
Macau Design Biennial (2017)
Type Directors Club Tokyo (2017)
Global Biennial of Graphic Design Golden Bee Moscow (2016)
Ecuador Poster Biennial (2016)
1st prize, Graphic Design Festival Scotland (2015)
Taipei International Design Award (2015)
Poster Triennial Toyama (2015)
Type Directors Club Tokyo (2015)
100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz (2015)
ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus, Germany
Deutsches Plakat Museum im Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti, Finland
Le Signe – Centre National du Graphisme, Chaumont, France
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany
