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Gernot Bubenik (born 1942) is a German artist whose practice explores the intersections between art, science, and ecological thinking. Working across painting, screen printing, and etching, he has spent more than six decades translating complex ideas into stylized visual formulas—sometimes with schematic precision, sometimes through full-body imprints on canvas. He first gained attention in the 1960s for his iconic color plates, which rendered intricate systems from nature and technology into striking textbook-like graphics.

The selection below highlights these early pseudoscientific figures in vibrant paint, where Bubenik depicts hybrid apparatuses fusing organic growth with silicon-based structures. This utopian synthesis resonates in the titles of the works—Butterfly Machine, Transistor Embryo, Enzymatic Receptor.

Since 1967, Bubenik has lived and worked in a Berlin-Kreuzberg loft, transformed into a Wohnatelier: a hybrid space where life and art merge. From compostable inks to participatory projects with children, his work reflects a commitment to sustainability, process, and embodied knowledge. Though his forms have shifted over time, his central inquiry—into the patterns of the living world—remains constant.

Visit the website The Rediscovery of gernot Bubenik for a fascinating insight into his vast body of work which Bubenik has neatly archived in his loft in Berlin Kreuzberg.

We artist have something to offer to society. Its liberation from privileges and society’s overall cultural blooming is coincidently our future as artists; that’s what we have to realize.Gernot Bubenik, 1971