Based in Walyalup (Fremantle), Ken is a German-born multidisciplinary artist of German and Japanese descent, working across digital and physical mediums. With a background in graphic design and photography, his practice integrates digital media, sculpture, projection, light and sound to create immersive, contemplative installations.
His work seeks to create environments that promote focused attention, shift perception and reveal unseen forces that influence our world. He is currently exploring metaphysical and scientific ideas around consciousness and how art plays a role in shaping human experience and connecting communities. He has worked in collaboration with artists across dance, theatre, live music and drone light shows.
His latest work, Where the Light Rests, was presented as part of the Fremantle Biennale 2025: Sanctuary program. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, including Diffusion, Cheap Tongue Gallery, Fremantle (2025); Interference, Current Gallery, Fremantle (2024); and Relic, Goolugatup Heathcote Gallery, Applecross (2025).
He holds a double Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University. In early 2025, he was selected for The Lab, a Perth Festival initiative supporting a small cohort of early-career practitioners through workshops, critical discussions, artist talks and mentorship with local and international creatives.
Contact Details
Phone: +61 431 827 536
Email: ken@kumo-bako.net
Imagine life as nothing but energy in flux. You witness beauty. A distant memory collides with an emotion from the present, and your stream of awareness processes it all at once, creating the experience of now.
This work embeds that stream of awareness into the brush, becoming the wandering pathways of our lives as they interact with ripples of experience, memory and emotion—again and again and again.
Materials
Raku clay and copper carbonate
Dimensions
900 x 600 x 40 mm
Price/ NFS
$700.00