Johannes Wohnseifer (born 1967 in Cologne, lives in Erfstadt, Professor for painting and sculpture at KHM/Academy of Media Arts Cologne) links the everyday with history, art and science themes and thus makes the imperceptible apparent. He questions to what extent art represents or critically explores the images of society. In order to achieve his objective, he dips into the wealth of materials and techniques offered by paintings, sculptures or posters. The “Faded Flags”, his very first Edition for Provinz, is seemingly a ready-made, here in the form of an industrially produced German flag. In actuality, Johannes Wohnseifer has fiddled with its color saturation. Like the “white” American flag on the moon—once a luminous symbol of that nation’s technical accomplishments—the black-red- gold that identifies and represents Germany has paled and almost disappeared, as if gnawed on by the wheel of time.
Johannes Wohnseifer's works are part of major collections throughout the world, e.g. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Marta Herford, Boros Collection, Berlin, Eileen Cohen Collection, New York City, Harald Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Fondazione Morra, Naples, Saatchi Collection, London, Proje4L – Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Hauser und Wirth Collection, Zürich, Susan and Michael Hort Collection, New York City, Olbricht Collection, Essen, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Gabriele and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Herzogenrath u.a.