Jonathan Meese & Tim Berresheim

(also known as Trepanation, Weihnacht, Bergkapelle Mount Everest, Kingdom Cum, Haircar, etc.)

  • Jonathan Meese

  • Tim Berresheim
"Tim Berresheim (b.1975, Heinsberg, Germany) has been called a ‘pioneer of computer-based art’. The image-worlds at the heart of his practice combine digital and analogue methods, weaving together disparate references from art history, technology, science and nature in a process he has described as an ‘artistic contemporary archaeology.’ By toying with preconceived notions of actuality, Tim’s works give the otherwise senseless sheen of digital art an enhanced sense of anima – a life or soul." - Belmacz
"Jonathan Meese (b. 1970, Tokyo, Japan) is a German Conceptual artist working within a diverse practice that includes performance, installation, painting, and sculpture. Concerned with themes of power, desire, and identity, Meese often inserts his likeness into his paintings. “I exhume to consume. My body is the reactor in a huge rubbish-recycling-experiment of leaden world and intoxicated images,” the artist has explained of his expressive and animated works." - Artnet

“On the occasion of their sixth LP, Tim and Jonathan team up as the duo ‘Kingdom Cum’ which shows again a new musical side of their intensive collaboration. On the sidelong track ‘Nature of the Beyond’ Jonathan’s enigmatic mumbling and singing is confronted with freeform improv-drumming and heavily delayed guitar strumming combined with layers of intensive drones, sampled reeds and noise outbursts”. – A-Musik 

"Tim Berresheim uses a combination of photography and digital media to explore the relationship between art and technology. Prior to the year 2000, Berresheim produced primarily collage-based work; however, with the turn of the century he began to embrace the influence of computer-generated imagery, manipulating his compositions with newfound technology. Berresheim's work expands upon the previous limitations of his mediums (photography and painting) to challenge boundaries and coerce his two-dimensional plane into a visual sculpture. His abstracted linework and tangled compositions evoke the gestures of a swift hand, although Berresheim's apparent brushstrokes are instead the product of precise three-dimensional digital renderings. Most often, Berresheim prints his images by inkjet onto wood, combining the technologically astute digital quality of his work with a naturally occurring, traditional printing surface." - Artnet