THOMAS HANUSEK
Visualizing experiences and feelings beyond words through cyclical surreal acrylics, digital collages, worldbuilding tools, and collaborative art.
Artist Statement
Hi, I’m Thomas Hanusek and I make surreal autobiographical acrylic paintings and digital illustrations about experiences and feelings I cannot put into words.
Every painting, text, and illustration constantly serves as raw material to be recycled and evolved into games, art books or bigger paintings.
My style is a collage of various objects, symbols and styles, in combinations that are meant to make you look beyond the images themselves and see the deeper connection between them.
I am exploring the deepest corners of my psyche through art, as learning about my own struggles, teaches me to help others in similar situations.
My creative process is inherently cyclical and collaborative across mediums; no piece exists in a vacuum, but is still complete on its own.
„Through my work, I hope to convey that true connection with the outside world requires an honest connection with oneself. My art teaches you, the audience that everything has it’s time and place and there is beauty to be found even in the absurd.“
Selected Works
Antisocial Age
Poem & Poster Design for play in Stadthaus Ulm.
Big Sword – Steel & Stone
Packaging design for Dreamstone Dice & Luck Tokens.
PONKE Mascot
Logo and mascot design for multimillion dollar market cap brand.
AFTER NOTHING
World first Human-AI live painting audiovisual performance.
Der Traum & Strange Loop
AI-assisted worldbuilding tool and conceptual interactive installation.
DreamHero & Book Illustrations
Writing, illustration, and design of original art books.
Chronology & Exhibitions
- Packaging and Layout for Dreamstone Dice, Big Sword
- Packaging Design for Luck Tokens, Big Sword
- Exhibition in Atrium Arts Gallery, Berlin
- Group Exhibition, Atrium Arts Gallery, Berlin
- Exhibition, Kikisol, Berlin
- Poem and Poster Design for “Antisocial Age” Play in Stadthaus Ulm
- Exhibition in Kikisol, Berlin
- Exhibition in MBIA, Berlin
- Illustrations for Tabletop RPG Book “Big Sword – Steel & Stone”
- Hosting and Stage for LG Soul Jam, organized with Lasha Goginashvili
- Live Painting in PAS Artspace Berlin
- Logo and Mascotdesign for PONKE, a cryptocurrency with a multimillion dollar market cap
- World first Human-AI Live painting during immersive audiovisual event “AFTER NOTHING” in collaboration with Liza2003, Anastasiia H., Riccardo Consagra and Lasha Goginashvili
- Solo exhibition in Recede, Berlin
- Solo exhibition “Tunnelblick” in PAS Artspace, Berlin
- Exhibition on the Art Meets You Festival in Cassiopeia, Berlin
- Solo exhibition in Haubentaucher, Berlin
- Solo exhibition “Psychedelic Inception” in M-BIA, Berlin
- Exhibition in KitKat Club, Berlin
- Creation of a mural in Void Club, Berlin
- Creation of AI assisted Worldbuilding Tool Der Traum
- Illustration of book “The Golden Age of Khares”
- Illustration of book “Tools of the Shadow King”
- Conception and creation of AI art installation “Strange Loop”
- Writing, Illustration, Design of DreamHero
- Illustration and art direction for HX:25:OA festival
- Creation of a mural in BulBul, Berlin
- Illustration of book “Every god will fall”
- Creation of 10 Live-paintings during the theatre play “Overload” with akademietheater Ulm during “Stürmt die Burg 2020”
- Live-painting + concert with band “Rainbow Head” during “Stürmt die Burg 2020”
- Creation of 2 murals in Jazzkeller Sauschdall, Ulm
- Multiple exhibitions in Jazzkeller Sauschdall, Ulm
- Creation of an initiative to support young aspiring artists in Ulm
- Founding of the art collective “Untergrunz”
- Live-painting, anniversary Gleis 44, Ulm
- Solo exhibition, Kulturnacht Ulm
- Interior art design Bassportation
- Organisation and Interior art design Dark Experience
- Organisation and Interior art design Lost Expedition
- Interior art design concert HGich.T at Jazzkeller Sauschdall
- Exhibition “Laboratorium 2.0” in Klosterhof Wiblingen
- Solo Exhibition ”Thomas Hanusek” in Glembotzki, Ulm
🎓 Media Informatics at University Ulm