"What the fuck is actually home, or why does the cuckoo clock end up on an Egyptian housing development?" says Stefan Strumbel.

The German word "Heimat" originally leads to the relationship between humans and space, now tradition meets Pop Art. Urban lifestyle implicates here the preservation of historical heritage, further to dare to find new perspectives aside from familiar paths.

Born and raised in the surrounding traditional black forest countryside Stefan Strumbel was affected by the rural environment. Apart from this fact he developed his own aesthetic sense through traveling and working in international cities. Even the forceful references from the local art society to the formerly illegal spraying "town boy" could not stop him from (placing) presenting his creative artwork at many different places in the world.

Patriotism implicates not only this single location in between the familiar, social environment, just like Street Art not exclusively emerges in metropolises.

Both can be carried in any order to any place on earth, including the yearning and nostalgia, feelings of the addicted beholder can be individually alienated towards the Artists Work, because they offer themselves punctiliously.

Rural motives and Biedermeier flair placed at little homelike and familiar locations in a paradox manner create a contrast that lets the daily scenery appear in a different light.

The unsophisticated cuckoo clock, nasty and subtly altered amidst the Egyptian housing development, on a public wall in New York, in any case at abnormal sceneries in the world, where beings live under many kinds of terms. This wants to show that we see it as the totality of life in general, in which we grow up in and see it as familiar and homely.

This happens self-sustaining from juristic and political definitions, mostly far apart from the German way of thinking about home which is often seen as a prude lifestyle; furthermore it is picked up as a trend by younger generations.

Stefan Strumbel is one of the rising stars in the European art scene. In Freiburg, Germany, he was mainly known for his interior design of the Grünhof - now his works are in demand. Strumbel's clients include John McEnroe, Hubert Burda and Karl Lagerfeld, to name a few.

Coming from Graffiti and Street Art scene, the influences of these fields are still characteristic for Strumbel's work. So he uses spray cans and silk screen printing, he creates objects and installations. His works are tradition meets Pop Art.

Stefan Strumbel was born in Offenburg, Germany in 1979.