Axel Bottenberg

Artist working at Bankley Studios. Ignored by the great and the good of the art world.

Axel Bottenberg’s work references pop art of the 1960s and its re-emergence in the 1990s onwards, drawing inspiration from the work of Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Duane Hanson, Jeff Koons, and the German poster artist Klaus Staeck, the Chapman brothers, Banksy and Shepard Fairey. Purposefully selecting imagery to provoke strong responses in the viewer, Axel often uses ‘low art’ iconography such as r  ...