{"id":1584,"date":"2023-08-24T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/ueber-mich\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:17:23","slug":"ueber-mich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/en\/ueber-mich\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-1075a-3d2c26d97341c9b2f3851f43892f099a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-llp1gszd-9b8b8bd565b5a8239184e590fe7cd29e '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3><em>&#8220;Those who don&#8217;t fight have already lost&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1m1ya-011279d8c33ccb0b4a71fae1618b511d\">\n.flex_column.av-1m1ya-011279d8c33ccb0b4a71fae1618b511d{\npadding:0 0 0 0;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1m1ya-011279d8c33ccb0b4a71fae1618b511d av_one_half  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-lnxn2qk4-294d409c9f5a91518bcb76e135aa5a55 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Alexander Dik \u2013 Artist Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born in 1983 in Kazakhstan, lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Dik is a painter and sculptor. His work moves between figurative abstraction, physical immediacy, and social provocation. His biography is marked by rupture, struggle, and a distinct cultural heritage: Dik descends from a Volga German family that was deported to Kazakhstan by the Soviet Union during World War II. This history of displacement, dispossession, and suppressed identity continues to shape his artistic stance \u2013 not as a literal narrative, but as a persistent resistance to forgetting.<\/p>\n<p>In 1992, his family migrated to Germany. Dik grew up in Berlin-Marzahn \u2013 an environment shaped by social tension, resilience, and raw urban reality. A key part of his youth was spent in martial arts: as an active Taekwondo fighter, he competed for over a decade \u2013 an education in discipline, embodiment, and inner drive that echoes in his painting today.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he worked in his brothers\u2019 supermarket and later became self-employed in the grocery retail sector. This direct contact with physical labor, everyday survival, and working-class experience became a lasting foundation for his art \u2013 grounded, confrontational, and unfiltered.<\/p>\n<p>At age 35, Dik radically changed direction and began studying art \u2013 completing his Master\u2019s degree in late 2024. That same year, he was named a master student under Andreas Amrhein.<\/p>\n<p>During his studies, Dik developed his unmistakable visual language \u2013 expressive, physical, existential. He was particularly influenced by the legacy of German Neo-Expressionism, especially the work of Georg Baselitz. This influence was deepened through direct mentorship by Ute W\u00f6llmann and Norbert Bisky, both former master students of Baselitz. His development was further shaped by contemporary painters such as Jonas Burgert and Christopher Lehmpfuhl, whose distinct approaches to intensity, materiality, and gesture deeply resonated with him.<\/p>\n<p>Dik works exclusively with oil paint. His large-scale canvases are placed on the floor \u2013 the painting process becomes a physical act, a performative struggle using hands, feet, weight, and impulse. The portraits he creates are raw, monumental, psychologically charged. They speak of power, consumption, ambition, survival \u2013 and vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>With his series \u201cGrosse Esser\u201d (\u201cBig Eaters\u201d), Dik formulated his first major artistic position after graduation. This body of work was not only thematic, but strategic: a necessary step in establishing himself as a distinct, recognizable, and internationally relevant painter. \u201cGrosse Esser\u201d marks the moment where he transitioned from searching to defining \u2013 a painter with his own vocabulary, his own urgency, and his own resistance.<\/p>\n<p>His paintings are often accompanied by bronze sculptures \u2013 condensed, heavy, physical echoes of his pictorial world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2e3b<\/p>\n<p>Artist Statement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy paintings are fights \u2013 not only with the world, but with myself. I use my body, because the mind often lies \u2013 the body doesn\u2019t. The canvas is not a window to me, it\u2019s a ring. I paint with rage, with hope, with hunger. My work happens where vulnerability meets resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"clear\" \/><strong>Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alexander Dik\u2019s vision is to create spaces for radical honesty through painting \u2013 visual realms where emotion, vulnerability, and resistance become visible and tangible. In a world increasingly hidden behind surfaces and narratives, Dik seeks the unfiltered, the raw, and the real.<\/p>\n<p>His art is not a mere depiction, but a physical process: paint is pushed, hurled, layered \u2013 until a new order emerges. Every brushstroke, every imprint tells of an inner struggle, an act of resistance against indifference and stagnation.<\/p>\n<p>Dik does not aim to please \u2013 but to move, challenge, and awaken. His vision is for art to become a place where identity is not explained but experienced. A place where not answers, but friction arises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in images that are allowed to hurt. Only where there is friction, energy can emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-q10q-0b81a46cc1a93c8441a4305a1b53b773 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_image-4bfba269c484975ffcfefe5406dbb78a\">\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-4bfba269c484975ffcfefe5406dbb78a img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-4bfba269c484975ffcfefe5406dbb78a .av-caption-image-overlay-bg{\nopacity:0.4;\nbackground-color:#000000;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-av_image-4bfba269c484975ffcfefe5406dbb78a .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-av_image-4bfba269c484975ffcfefe5406dbb78a av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_video  avia-builder-el-first  noHover av-overlay-hover-deactivate'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexander-Dik-Portfolio.pdf\" class='avia_image' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label='Alexander_Dik_Kleidung'><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay\"><div class=\"av-caption-image-overlay-bg\"><\/div><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay-position\"><div class=\"av-image-caption-overlay-center\"><p>Porfolio<br \/>\n&#8220;Grosse Esser&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-2352 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-2352 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Portfolie_Alexander_Dik.webp\" alt='Alexander  Dik Kleidung' title='Alexander_Dik_Kleidung'  height=\"1216\" width=\"1216\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-llp1nzb5-c7c0f3968e0a6e86cf2534ebc6647f3d\">\n.avia-video.av-llp1nzb5-c7c0f3968e0a6e86cf2534ebc6647f3d{\npadding-bottom:178%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-video av-llp1nzb5-c7c0f3968e0a6e86cf2534ebc6647f3d avia-video-custom av-no-preview-image avia-video-load-always avia-video-html5'  itemprop=\"video\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"  data-original_url='https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexander_Dik_FINAL.mp4'><video class='avia_video'  autoplay playsinline loop preload=\"metadata\" muted  id='player_1584_1325940237_831897449'><source src='https:\/\/alexanderdik.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alexander_Dik_FINAL.mp4' type='video\/mp4' \/><\/video><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1584","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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