Self taught artist, professioneller Amateur, based in Hamburg, Germany
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I make collages, write poems & kind of lo-fi produce weird pop records & zines & self-publish them in very limited, mostly handmade editions, while I give most of my music away for free digitally.
Thanks for being here!
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Manchmal scheint es, als stünde ein narratives Moment im Zentrum der Collagen. Dann wieder eint die Arbeiten der letzten Jahre doch gerade ihre Rätselhaftigkeit. Landschaften und Figuren erscheinen oft als ebenbürtige Partner, als Verbündete, bei der Entdeckung des Fremden - so wie auch Farbe und Papier, das Gemalte und das Geklebte (oder Geklaute) sich zunehmend ergänzen. Fremde Welten, die doch irgendwie vertraut erscheinen - Blüten, verwandelt zu Feen, Fischschwärme in den Baumkronen, eine ungewohnte Gemeinschaft von Tieren, Menschen und anderen Wesen. Verwildernde Orte einer postmodernen Gesellschaft.
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Works marked with * are already sold or not available.
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For more information about other works, for studio visits, etc.
scroll down to the end of the page
or send me an e-mail
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CV
1983 born in Essen, Germany
1994 moves to lower saxony
1996 starts playing guitar
2004 moves to Düsseldorf
2005 moves to Hamburg to form a band
2006 first recordings and performances
2007 first paper collage
first record release in limited edition
2008 first mixed media collage
2011 first exhibition
2014 moves to Bochum
finishes state-approved training as nutritionist
finishes state-approved training as memory coach
2016 moves back to Hamburg
2019 B.A. Kulturwissenschaften- / FU Hagen
(Bachelor thesis about Max Ernst`s collage novels)
2023 becomes a father
-Solo Records-
2023 - Demos 1011 - EP - (digital)
2017 - Neue Farben - EP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2016 - Find the moon - EP - (digital)
2014 - The Magic Okustra Symphony Party - LP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2012 - Okustra - LP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2012 - Rain you / Colors - Single - (digital)
2011 - Parangartirunajo - EP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2010 - Tarangiapapu - EP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2009 - Hillchild - LP - (limited CD edition + digital)
-Band Records-
2014 - Bambikonzept - Bolk - EP - (digital)
2011 - Bambikonzept - 123 - LP - (limited CD edition + digital)
2007 - Shabbybeauté - Merkwürdiges Leben - EP - (limited CD edition + digital)
-Exhibitions-
2018 - Millerntor Gallery #8 - group exhibition - Millerntorstadion, Hamburg (Jöphi)
2018 - Art & Cake - group exhibition - Art & Cake Pop-Up-Gallery, Hamburg (Jöphi)
2016 - Traum und Morgen - with Fabienne Houdret - Kunst Kiosk, Hamburg. (Jöphi)
2014 - Kunst Kiosk Geburtstag - group exhibition - Kunst Kiosk Hamburg (Jöphi)
2011 - Eine Wand im - Kunst Kiosk, Hamburg (Philipp Sohlmann)
Want to get in touch?
Why don’t you just write me something nice?
okustra@gmx.de
INSTAGRAM:
@j.p.sohlmann
BANDCAMP:
okustra.bandcamp.com
NOTE
I give most of my music away for free digitally. So if you are interested, just head over to my bandcamp and download whatever you like. Most of these records were produced in the time between my 24th and 34th birthday. I recorded more than 100 songs in that period. Its all pretty demo-ish, - solo,, bands, projects - mostly recorded in rehearsal spaces, bedrooms etc. - but there are quite a few pearls to find beneath the dust, I think.
If you want to support me directly, you can always buy my original art. I have original collages, drawings and paintings available. I also have handmade CD and Zine editions (with covers that are original artworks themselves). So if you are interested in starting to collect my work, you don’t have to spend hundreds or thousands of euros or dollars or whatever (you are always welcome though) - it starts with as little as 10 EUR for certain handmade CD oder zine - editions. I am honored by every purchase!
I do not sell any prints.
But I have three growing bodies of work, that I consider to be something like special collectibles, because I sell them for a really good price, mostly just out of my studio.
While the prices for almost all of my other work depend on the size and the complexity of the piece - and are, simply put, a little higher - the works from these three collections have different sizes, but all the same price:
100 EUR (inkl. shipping)
Papiercollagen ohne Titel (Paper collages without titles)
A body of work ongoing since 2007.
I regard these paper collages as something like sketches (I don’t do sketches).
Quickly done, small scale paper collages, that I pretty much do for fun.All works on book covers
regardless of technique and materials used.
So there are drawings, paintings, paper collages and stuff in-between.
I just started working on book covers in 2019
and I have only made between 2 and 52 of these works per year since then.Gegen das Alltagsgrau (Against the every day grey)
A series of series
+ my only series, sold as single collages.
All the other ones, except records and zines, are only sold as whole collections.
I began working on these mostly black and white paper collages in 2018.
Trying to bring a little fun and curiosity into the every day grey.
It’s three different collections so far.Gegen das Alltagsgrau (80 paper collages - 2018-2021)
Gegen das Alltagsgrau II (59 paper collages - 2024)
Gegen das Alltagsgrau III (30 paper collages - 2025)
If you are in Hamburg and you are interested in collage art, feel free to write me in regard to a studio visit. If you are interested in ordering an original artwork, just shoot me a message and I will gladly send you a pdf with a list of available works…
Thank you
J.P.