"Bieniek-Face" is an oeuvre of artwork by the Berlin based artist Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) that is divided into photography and painting.

The oeuvre combines technics known from the painting/drawing and such that are known from photography or realistic and childish painting to create an artwork focused on the human face that is usually discibed as "bizzare", "creepy" or just "irritating".

His concept seeks to make the duality and ambivalence of human nature visible.

"Both is the same" is a quote of the artist that is written on the top of his website. For Bieniek this sentence means a lot. It means that it's less the question of "what?" than of "when?". It means that it's less the question of "when" than of "what next to?" Even further Bieniek say's it's not a question of "facts or not facts?" but of "how they're combined?" or "what do you begin with and what do you end with?". 

Since 2012 Sebastian Bieniek created a few dozen of series of photographs and paintings in which he developed the Bieniek-Face concept based on different subjects, technics and cultural and individual backgrounds. 

Meanwhile Bieniek-Face is one of the most famous icons of the last six years spread worldwide by the internet and all channels of media, including such as magazines, tv, newspapers, art, fashion, music, cinema, literature, advertising and even politics.

Although Sebastian Bieniek is constantly and from the beginning simultanously working with photography and painting, the focus of his work moves more and more into painting.

Meanwhile he created since 2013 more than 25 verious series of paintings based on the Bieniek-Face concept.

See the paintings here.

In march 2019 Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) was invited by the largest Turkish film festival, the Istanbul International Film Festival to make photographs for the campaign of its 38th edition. 

The result were five photographs from the Double Bieniek-Face series. The photographs appeared on the front-page of the festival catalogue, on small and large posters and all the media all over Turkey and abroad.

The photographs themself refered to the movies shown at the festival, which showed among others an retrospective of Stanley Kubrick. So the photographs refered to movies like: "Clockwork Orange", "Lolitta", "Royal Tenenbaums"and "Black Swan". 

A few examples of the large press coverage the photographs got in Turkey.

You can download here the 3-page interview by the VOGUE (interview with Sebastian Bieniek made in Istanbul at the day of the shooting).

On 22. July 2018 "Crying Bieniek-Face No. 2" was published on the front page of Germanys largest magazine, the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, with an edition of more than one million printed pieces.

Futhermore two other photographs from the "Crying Bieniek-Face" series were published inside the magazine.

In late november 2017 before the Russian premiere of the Matilda (2017) movie, which accused a scandal in Russia, the member of the russian parlament Natalja Wladimirowna Poklonskaja have shown at a Duma session Sebastian Bieniek's photographs of Lars Eidinger to prove that Eidinger is an "porno actor".

In 2016 the italian band Elpris wrote an entire album inspired by Sebastian Bieniek's work. It's name was "‪Animali Alieni‬".
Also the video was based on Bieniek's work and created in coopreation with the artist.

In 2015 Sebastian Bieniek shooted a complete story for Germanys largest magazin, the SZ Magazin (Süddeutsche Zeitung).

In 2015 Sebastian Bieniek cooperated with the french designer Simon Porte Jacquemus at the Paris Fashion Week 2015 (spring).

After the overwhelming success of Sebastian Bieniek's first Bieniek-Face artworks the pop culture and especially the pop-music culture was looking for to participate in this success in which way however. 

One of the first was Pharrell Williams who was inspired by Bieniek's "Doublefaced Girl" story to call his 2014 album after it "Girl".

In the video of the song "Marylin Monroe" of that album he's even copying Bieniek's "Doublefaced No. 4" artwork, after which many international magazines accuse him of plagiarism on Bieniek's original artwork.