The artist Ottjörg A. C. scrutinises in an unusual way the traces that people leave behind (often involuntarily). His current project, Deskxistence, is based on extensive travelling that has taken the artist to, among other destinations, Jerusalem, Ramallah, New York, São Paulo and various cities in China. In all of these places, he visited schools where he created large-scale coloured prints on paper of the pupils’ desks. A gravure printing process highlights the different scribbles, carvings, inscriptions, pictorial representations and abrasions.
What initially appears to be a series of prints in the informal tradition reveals itself to be an original and informative record of a universal but often overlooked cultural activity.

Biography
1958 born in Heidelberg
1981–1983 studies of philospohy and history of art, Freie Universität Berlin
1986–1989 studies of sculpture under Alfred Hrdlicka, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
1989–1991 master class student under Alfred Hrdlicka, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Lives and works in Berlin and Peking