Uncompromised essential works are the biography.

I am an independent maker of conceptual work, based in Berlin.

A predicate of what i present is that i eschew responding to most platitudinous and familiar biographical questions. I maintain that my works already embody sufficient relevant biographical detail, even if obscurely. Any further personalisation of my works by talking about me would be to miss their point and to succumb to a journalistic malaise that pervades our culture: one of lazy, formulaic appraisal-by-association (whose extremes include the cult of celebrity and its perverse corollary, social media). There is the misguided, although nigh ubiquitous, presumption that awareness of the banalities of upbringing provide significant insight into what is shown.

Parenthetically, the very context of anything that i have yet shown, as well as any linguistic content, likely demonstrates that over two decades of bourgeois conditioning precedes me. To talk more about the specifics would deviate from the salient into irrelevant detail. Furthermore, as an existentialist, i am in the present, in a process of doing. In being, i already embody within my current acts that which was before me as i now am. Despite the obvious accusations possible, there is not even the slightest affectation of disingenuous coyness to any of this. There is no cultivation of mysteriousness as a marketing ploy. It is just that there is simply a lot to talk about, that there is not much time and that, therefore, one must cut to the quick. Trite biographical snippets would explain nothing about the work – just as a portrait of an author usually adds nothing relevant to their writing.

My works themselves are the only topics of conversation needed. The works are would-be initiators of further explorations of the thoughts they address, or allude to. That is their purpose. For any further development to be possible, i need and seek the engagement of others. Thus, any works unseen are works incomplete.

There is only the one conversation, and that is about everything. All that i present are my attempts to engage with aspects of this conversation. These attempts, these interjections, are essentially questions (irrespective of syntactical voice) which i am not perceiving to be asked adequately by others. Without the pretension that may be attributed to the following: they are philosophical explorations which help reveal only once they are responded to by others. Whence their necessary externalisation as works. Again, existentialistically, these are engagements. So indeed, as with anything that involves others, they are political by definition – and my personal is already in the middle of this.

© anand zenz, 2014-2026