Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) is an artist who started his career in the
Kunsthaus Tacheles 1998.
He works with
painting,
conceptual art and
photography.
The Berlin based artist Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) named a style that he invented in 1996 and since that time developed "Bieniekhand".
The characteristic part of his "Bieniekhand" style are white or black hands which surrender, cover or embrace usually a body but also houses and other objects.
The first works of with this characteristic black hands he has already done in 1996. Futher works in 2014 followed, starting as part of the
Secondfaced (photographs) and
Facination (paintings) series and becoming later its own series.
Also this works have been since years widely preaded in the internet and inspired lot of other to redo or variate Bieniek's originals.
It inspired for example 2015 the french designer Jacquemus to make a "Bieniek inspired collection", 2016 the Caribbean fashion designer Cecilia Devana, 2017 the fashion photographer Maxime Ballesteros and many others who work in the field of art and fashion.
The oeuvre of Bieniekhand is divided into
painting and
photography.
Here you see the first series of photographs from the
Bieniekhand oeuvre named "Manualisation".
The series was created in 2017, contains meanwhile
13 photographs and is an ongoing project.
Manualisation no. 1
"Manualisation No. 1" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 2
"Manualisation No. 2" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 3
"Manualisation No. 3" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 4
"Manualisation No. 4" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2017. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 5
"Manualisation No. 5" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 80 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 6
"Manualisation No. 6" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 7
"Manualisation No. 7" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 8
"Manualisation No. 8" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 9
"Manualisation No. 9" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 10
"Manualisation No. 10" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 11
"Manualisation No. 11" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 12
"Manualisation No. 12" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2018. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 67 cm. x 100 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.
Manualisation no. 13
"Manualisation No. 13" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 20208. From "Manualisation" series. Edition of 9 original photographs. 100 cm. x 67 cm. Oeuvre of Bieniekhand.