Jan Baumgartner is a German digital artist based in Bielefeld, Germany. Working exclusively in the digital realm, his practice explores the emotional and spatial impact of colour through reduced compositions, expansive colour fields, and quiet human presence. His works are defined by depth, monotony, and effect. Spaces where colour is not decoration, but force.
From an early age, colour became more than a visual element. Growing up with epilepsy, Baumgartner experienced a world shaped by instability and sudden loss of control. Through therapeutic processes, colour emerged as a stabilising constant - a surface that could hold emotion, regulate perception, and create calm. This early relationship with colour remains a central driver of his artistic work today, not as narrative, but as lived experience translated into visual structure.
Alongside this, techno became an essential framework. Its monotony, repetition, and spatial clarity offered refuge through order. Where others hear constraint, Baumgartner found freedom. This logic carries directly into his practice: form provides structure, colour provides feeling. Space must function. Colour must work. Creation itself is inseparable from sound. Techno is not background, but a daily tool for focus, immersion, and release.
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