biography

Manu Camille was born in 1995 in the Allgäu region and lives currently with his wife in Heidelberg. He began painting, modeling, acting, and writing at an early age. Through art, he constantly sought ways to express himself. Growing up in a small town, he attended a free protestant church. The close interweaving of private, church and family life has always been a major theme - this is still reflected in his paintings today. He continually oscillates through his life between security and insecurity, faith and doubt, closeness and distance. Manu Camille experienced himself as an interested person who, from an early age, He discovered themes of philosophy, psychology and theology for himself and revolved around them in his art. His works are equally complex, thanks to his multifaceted experiences with identity and belonging. His themes are characterized by their revolving around the existential questions of human life. In his current formal language, Manu Camille consciously relies on a coded form of expression: ideas, theological/philosophical assumptions, and entire groups of people are summarized in symbols, figures, surfaces, and patterns and placed in context. Thus, despite complexity, in their significance. Manu Camille is happy to share thoughts on his Images, but they claim that they can also have an impact without additional explanations. Through aesthetics and expressiveness His works are meant to benefit real people in real spaces. He believes that beauty is a rebellious act against the terror, ugliness, and suffering of the world. Not to suppress or downplay the bad things in the world, but to counteract them.