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name: Ganz
vorname: Nicholas
wikidata-repräsentation: Q1984857
gnd-repräsentation: 130405361
biografische angaben: «I was born in the early months of 1976 in the heart of the Ruhrgebiet in Essen, Germany. Since the mid ‘90s I am painting graffiti in the streets and simultaneously started to take photos of my own works and the graffiti of other people. This laid the roots of my present artistic work.
In 1997 I wanted to create a special graffiti name for myself, that had no direct meaning instead of choosing a word from the dictionary. So I took some of my most preferred letters and created a name, that had no concrete meaning - Keinom. Keinom describes my artistic work and the world from where I take my inspiration, where I take refuge in and where I create my philosophy.
My graffiti photo-archive from the early years was the basis to start my first book Graffiti World - street art from five continents and to collect graffiti art from all over the world to present them in this work. It was first published in 2004 and got the chance to be released and also translated in 12 different countries so far.
Graffiti Woman was a natural follower of Graffiti World, as I discovered the lack of female artists in publications and so I filled this gap with this project. The book was first published in 2006. […]
Currently I am still stuck in Asia to dive deeper into the diverse cultures, ethnic peoples and various problems and crisis. Meanwhile I ended up in the mountainous country of Nepal. […]
On 29. April 2015 I released my third book about a very rare and so far undocumented part of the graffiti culture. With Street Messages I show artists from all around the world, who exclusively or partly work with text only.»
(from: Nicolas Ganz, Manifesto, 2015)