Florian Böhm (born 1969) lives and works in Munich. His practice focuses on unintentional forms and accidental expressions in everyday life. Through conceptual photography, he investigates contemporary perception and develops a distinct visual vocabulary for urban experience.
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Fondazione Adriano Olivetti (Rome), and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris).
Böhm co-founded EndCommercial® / Reading the City, a visual archive of contemporary urban life comprising more than 60,000 images. The project received international critical attention in publications such as The New York Times, Domus, Artforum, and Kunstforum International, and contributed to expanding the visual language used to interpret urban environments.
In the photographic series Wait for Walk, Böhm extends his urban typologies through an anthropological lens. Created in New York, the series captures fleeting constellations of passers-by waiting at intersections. The sidewalk becomes a stage where the metropolis briefly pauses; the flow of traffic acts as a metaphorical shutter curtain. The works reveal subtle social choreographies shaped by gesture, posture, and chance, balancing accidental groupings with the appearance of staged composition.
Alongside his artistic practice, Böhm works as editor, author, and designer. His publications include KGID – Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (Phaidon Press, 2005), Commedia dell’Arte – Couture Edition (Birkhäuser, 2009), Wait for Walk (Hatje Cantz, 2007), PANORAMA (Vitra Design Museum, 2014), and Cookbook Book (with Annahita Kamali, Phaidon, 2014).
His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), Storefront for Art and Architecture (New York), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Fondazione Adriano Olivetti (Rome), and the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain (Paris).
Böhm co-founded EndCommercial® / Reading the City, a visual archive of contemporary urban life comprising more than 60,000 images. The project received international critical attention in publications such as The New York Times, Domus, Artforum, and Kunstforum International, and contributed to expanding the visual language used to interpret urban environments.
In the photographic series Wait for Walk, Böhm extends his urban typologies through an anthropological lens. Created in New York, the series captures fleeting constellations of passers-by waiting at intersections. The sidewalk becomes a stage where the metropolis briefly pauses; the flow of traffic acts as a metaphorical shutter curtain. The works reveal subtle social choreographies shaped by gesture, posture, and chance, balancing accidental groupings with the appearance of staged composition.
Alongside his artistic practice, Böhm works as editor, author, and designer. His publications include KGID – Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (Phaidon Press, 2005), Commedia dell’Arte – Couture Edition (Birkhäuser, 2009), Wait for Walk (Hatje Cantz, 2007), PANORAMA (Vitra Design Museum, 2014), and Cookbook Book (with Annahita Kamali, Phaidon, 2014).
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions :
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, United States, October 2027 - March 2028
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland, March 13, 2026 - July 19, 2026
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany, April 11, 2025 - August 25, 2025
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, March 16, 2024 - June 30, 2024
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom, June 2, 2023 - September 17, 2023
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Musei San Domenico, Forlì, Italy, September 17, 2022 - January 8, 2023
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MUCEM), Marseille, France, January 16, 2021 - April 16, 2021
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand, June 27, 2020 - October 18, 2020
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, September 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China, March 9, 2019 - May 19, 2019
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, South Korea, October 18, 2018 - February 17, 2019
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Dieter Rams seen by Florian Böhm, Goethe Institut, Bordeaux, France, 3 Oct, 2019 – 31 Jan 2020
Director: Louise Holke
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, September 13, 2019 - February 2, 2020
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, March 9, 2019 - May 26, 2019
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, October 18, 2018 - February 17, 2019
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Art Souterrain, Palais des Congrès, Montréal, February 28 - March 15th 2015
Curators: William A. Ewing · Holly Roussel
Gallery f5.6, Munich, September 13 - October 18 2014
Direction: Katrin Weber
Gallery Ugo Ferranti, Rome, January 28, 2012
Direction: Maurizio Faraoni
Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, 30th June – 9 October 2011
Bavarian National Museum, Munich, June - October 2010
Direction: Dr. Renate Eikelmann
NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, October - November 2008
Direction: Werner Lippert
Amador Gallery, The Fuller Building, New York, Sept - October 2008
Direction: Paul Amador
Goethe Institute, Triest, Sept - October 2008
Direction: Alexandra Hagemann
Young Gallery, Brussels, May - September 2008
Direction: Pascal Young
Kunsthalle Darmstadt, April - June 2008
Direction: Dr. Peter Joch
Gallery f5.6, Munich, Feb - March 2008
Direction: Nicole Stanner
FORUM 11 für zeitgenössische Fotografie / Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum, Jan - March 2008
Direction: Ulrich Pohlmann
Performance Z-A, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, September 2007
Curator: Sarah Herda
Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Jan - March 2006
Direction: Aldy Milliken Curator: Laurie Makela and Ronald Jones
KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, May, June 2002
Direction: Klaus Biesenbach Curator: Anselm Franke
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, July, August 2002
Direction: Peter Guggenheimer · Belmont Freeman · Calvin Tsao et al. Curator: Sarah Herda
Fondatione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, September 2002
Direction: Bartholomeo Pietromarchi Curator: Emanuela Nobile Mino
Haus der Kunst, Munich, September, Oktober, November 2002
Direction: Christoph Vitali Curator: Stephanie Rosenthal
Fondation Cartier pour l' art contemporain, Paris, December 2002
Direction: Hervé Chandès Curator: Isabelle Gaudefroy
Books (selection):
Making the Plus (Hatje Cantz, 2025)
Konstantin Grcic -New Normals (Walter und Franz König, 2022)
Or-Or, Hartmut Böhm (Daimler Art Collection / Snoeck, 2016)
Panorama, Konstantin Grcic (Vitra Design Museum 2014)
Everything is Connected (Gestalten Verlag 2014)
Florian Böhm, Annahita Kamali / Cookbook Book (Phaidon 2014)
Dieter Rams, As Little Design as Possible (Phaidon 2011)
Commedia dell’Arte – Couture Edition (Birkhäuser, 2010)
Florian Böhm - Wait for Walk (Hatje Cantz, 2007)
MIURA, a Stool in New York (Plank, 2006)
KGID Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (Phaidon Press, 2005)
Endcommercial® / Reading the City (Hatje Cantz, 2002)
Literature (selection):
Boarder Crossing: David Galloway, ARTnews 11/2008
The Photobook: A History volume Volume II · Phaidon Press, 2006
Endcommercial: Das Magazin · Tages-Anzeiger 12/12/03
Endcommercial / Reading the City: Ronald Daus · Kosmopolis 07/03
Endcommercial / Reading the City: testcard #12, 06/03
Ich zeige dir die Stadt: tausend Straßenbilder: F.L. · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 05/15/03
Die Landvermesser der Gegenwart: Barbara Basting · Tages-Anzeiger 05/06/03
Work in Progress: Linda Eerme, Robin Kinross · DOMUS # 856, 02/03
Un siècle en stock: Catherine Firmin-Didot · Télérama # 2771, 02/20/03
Gesammelte Spuren: Kira van Lil · Art # 2, 02/03
Endcommercial: Michel Hauffen · Kunstforum International # 163, 01/01/03
Endcommercial / Reading the City: Denis Brudna · Photonews #12, Dez. 2002/Jan. 2003
Endcommercial: Birgit Lohmann · www.designboom.com 12/02
Fenomenologia della vita urbana: Sabrina Vedovotto · next exit # 3, 11/2002
Endcommercial: Nadine Olonetzky · Neue Zürcher Zeitung 12/17/02
Die Grammatik der Grossstadt in der Krise: Peter P. Schneider · Der Tages-Anzeiger, Zürich 12/13/02
Die Ordnung im Chaos: Andreas Langen · Stuttgarter Zeitung 12/06/2002
New York décryptée par accumulation d‘images: Michel Guerrin · Le Monde 12/06/02
Endcommercial: Andreas Müller-Pohle · European Photography 01/12/02
New York lesen lernen / Reading NYC: Petra Schmidt · Form #186, Nov./Dez. 2002
Der Müll, die Stadt und die Spurenleser: Alex Rühle · Süddeutsche Zeitung 11/13/02
Alfabeto metropolitano: Barbara Casavecchia · Gulliver 11/02
Voyage au bout de la Ville: Bénédicte Duhalde · Intramuros #103, Okt./Nov. 2002
Ein Hydrant ist ein Hydrant: Kai Michel · Telepolis 10/19/02
Quella merce e illusaria: Arianna di Genova · Il Manifesto 10/05/02
Endcommercial: Maria Christina Bastante · ExibArt 10/02
Produktionen: Marina Sorbello · Tema Celeste 92 09/02
Bilder einer Stadt: Oliver Herbig · Süddeutsche Zeitung 09/19/02
Lesen lernen im Buch der Stadt: De Righi · Abendzeitung 09/14/02
Endcommercial: Ken Johnson · New York Times 09/02/02
Endcommercial: Domusweb 08/02
Endcommercial: Thomas Köster · Amazon.de Rezensionen 08/02
Reading the City: Alice Temlow · Architecture Magazine 08/02
Die benutzte Stadt: Johanna Adorján · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 08/25/02
Hypertext City: Jutta Nachtwey · Page 08/02
Der Müll, die Stadt und die Kunst: 3Sat · Kulturzeit · New York Diary III 08/02/02
Endcommercial: Jordan Kantor · Artforum 07/02
Police line do not cross: Paul Feigelfeld · Style 06/02
Diagramme der Macht: Nicolas Siepen · Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 05/06/02
Auf Leben und Tod: Ingeborg Ruthe · Berliner Zeitung 05/04/02