"Every encounter brings us something, every person opens us up to the world and helps us to better understand its diversity. The stranger is no longer a stranger, but a new piece of home. The other becomes a fragment of the mirror of our own self".
Marion Boehm
Born in Duisburg, Germany
After studying interior architecture, she worked as an interior designer in Europe before moving to South Africa in 2010. It was here that she began her artistic career in Johannesburg, creating unique collages of great beauty. Her work explores the interfaces and relationships between African and Western cultures through history to the present day, addressing themes linked to her personal experiences. Marion Boehm's work is an impressive combination of artistic integrity, conceptual vision and aesthetic beauty. Her work has been collected around the world and exhibited at numerous exhibitions and art fairs in Germany, France, Lithuania, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.Inspired by art and a variety of materials, Marion Boehm draws on her memories of her grandmother, a passionate embroiderer and guardian of an ancestral skill, as well as on her decisive encounters in Africa.
Originally from Germany, she explores the female portrait, celebrates human exchanges between north and south, and revives the techniques of weaving and unique collage. Her sensitivity shines through in a series of captivating and intriguing portraits, rich in tonality. In a harmony of creative gesture and colour, Marion Boehm brings together references from Western art with more contemporary African and Middle Eastern influences. Her works are guided by a demanding vision that combines interculturality and the aesthetics of images in the light of socio-economic themes.