Tijmen Brozius blends performance and visual art to explore dividuality (the multiplicity of the self), shame, masculinity, embodiment, and hyper-salience.
His early influences include European comic strips, fantasy game artwork, the Efteling theme park (NL), 90s video games, metal music, MTV, 90s TV cartoons, and Jim Henson's puppetry. Early visits to great museums and cultural sites with his family, as well as his art education, exposed him to the European art canon.
His protestant Christian upbringing, which he abandoned in his teens, sparked his interest in spiritual and religious practices. Challenges in his personal life led him to explore yoga, meditation, encounter groups, psychotherapy and engagement with spiritual teachers, as well as developing a healthy relationship with screens, food and other humans.
His drawing practice forms the basis of his artistic process, which expanded to include painting, sculpture, puppetry, physical performance, and video.
He collaborates with people from various fields to explore improvisation, ritual, psychedelics, men's work, embodiment practices and AI, seeking to develop participatory in-person experiences that explore the human religious impulse playfully and in real life, seeking leverage points to underthrow Moloch's alienating grip on humanity. Time is short.
He has been called the H.R. Giger of the Dark Renaissance.
He works from Witten, NRW, Germany. He is a father of two.