Olaf Auser, born in Berlin in 1962, discovered his passion for art and design processes at an early age. His sculptural experiments began at the age of 12/13 with gas concrete. At the age of 15, he founded a group of artists in Aschaffenburg and increasingly focussed on etchings and painting. His works were shown in his first group exhibitions. After training as a letterpress printer and completing a one-year design internship, Olaf Auser was accepted at the renowned Mathildenhöhe Academy of Design in Darmstadt. During his studies, he founded his first design agency.

With the millennium came the decision to work more artistically, particularly in the field of sculpture. During this time, he created the pragmatic series of works “Kopf” (Head), which explored the possibility or impossibility of representational questions, especially the moment, which is a sheer impossibility to capture and therefore ends in reduction.

After momentous breaks in 2019, a change in artistic thinking took place. In order to be able to depict psychological processes of change more concretely, among other things, the works became increasingly figurative. The artist is characterised by his protracted exploration of thematic worlds and his slow and intensive approach to working with plaster.

Olaf Auser lives with his wife in a retreat not far from Frankfurt am Main. His works are represented in various private collections worldwide.