Freedom for Freaks

Name: Holger - Busch - ART
Address: Karlsruhe, 76133, DE
Telephone: +49 171 5396804

Madness wants to be free.

Artwork

Series

Freedom for Freaks

“Madness wants to be free.”

Dark landscape-format painting with three grimacing faces made of white, red and orange looping lines — 3 Freaked-Outs a Day, 2025on canvas135 x 195 x 5 cm

Three mask-like heads in green, red and blue with patterned outlines on a splattered ochre-yellow ground — Behind the Musketeers' Masks, 2025on canvas113 x 100 x 5 cm

A cow-like creature with green horns and a wide open mouth in turquoise, yellow and orange — Cosmic Cow in Extasy, 2025on canvas133 x 130 x 5 cm

Portrait format: a head outlined in white above a dense weave of blue, red and yellow paint splatters — Exhausting Ecstasy, 2025on canvas181 x 140 x 5 cm

Narrow black canvas with a white-outlined figure made of a red head, yellow mouth and green-blue body — Freaking Out Fried Egg Monster, 2026on canvas120 x 75 x 2 cm

A large white-grey head with green eyes and a bright red mouth on a black ground splattered with colour — Incredible Lip Service, 2024on canvas115 x 75 x 2 cm

A clown face made of white, pink and orange looping lines with a red mouth on a black ground — New Clown in the Town, 2025on canvas120 x 120 x 2 cm

A yellow, circular Pac-Man figure built from dense webs of line on a pale blue ground with red paint splatters — PacMan doesn't laugh…, 2024on canvas140 x 135 x 5 cm

An orange-red frame pattern with two blue and pink eye shapes and a jagged row of teeth along the bottom edge — Who Frees Clyde…, 2024on canvas113 x 117 x 2 cm

An orange face with green hair and a wide red mouth, outlined in white on a dark ground — Sweet and Sour Grimace, 2025on canvas177 x 116 x 2 cm

Two large white looping circles above turquoise, orange and pink flung lines on a black ground — The Art of Freaking Out Alone, 2025on canvas113 x 115 x 5 cm

Narrow portrait format with a slender figure with large yellow eyes on a thickly painted blue and pink ground — The Sleepwalker, 2025on canvas140 x 70 x 2 cm

Three pale king figures woven from lines with a yellow sun on a blue and red colour field — The Three Unholy Kings, 2025on canvas137 x 134 x 2 cm

Three slender figures in red, blue and yellow built from concentric lines on a vivid green ground — Three Come in Peace, 2025on canvas110 x 100 x 2 cm

Cosmic Symbology

“Finding the meaning that keeps eluding us.”

Square painting made of many spirals of colour running into one another in red, blue, yellow and green — A Seeker of Meaning in the Multiverse, 2024on canvas120 x 120 x 4 cm

Narrow portrait format with vertical white bands over a dense, many-coloured swirl of paint — Balancing the Hurricane, 2024on canvas150 x 85 x 2 cm

A large blossom with turquoise petals and broad green leaves on a black ground — Bracing Against Decay, 2025on canvas116 x 116 x 2 cm

Dark painting with six circling swirls of colour in yellow, red and turquoise — Chronicle of Fallen Foes, 2024on canvas160 x 140 x 5 cm

Horizontally layered bands of colour in blue, yellow, red and white, as if stirred into one another — Emotional Ratatouille, 2026on canvas150 x 120 x 2 cm

An orange and green looping form on a pink ground above a turquoise field — Eternally Beyond, 2025on canvas120 x 120 x 5 cm

Muted circular forms in olive, rosé and turquoise, overlaid with sweeping black arcs — Longing for a Vibrant Lifetime, 2024on canvas180 x 135 x 5 cm

Orange painting with a blue-grey band along the bottom edge, a small green oval at the left and an ochre and a wine-red rectangle in the centre — Balancing Before the Crash, 2025on canvas112 x 150 x 5 cm

Four interlocking circular forms in red, blue, yellow and pink, outlined with black contour lines — No Man's Land, 2023on canvas122 x 110 x 2 cm

A head-like yellow form above a red field, set against a pale rectangle and a dense blue and white web of paint — Sleepless, 2024on canvas100 x 130 x 2 cm

Deep red painting crossed by black, white and yellow jagged lines running downwards — Solfeggio 396, 2026on canvas130 x 160 x 2 cm

A dense, all-over web of colour in red, yellow, green and blue with white dabs of paint — Symbol Hunters, 2025on canvas146 x 153 x 2 cm

Portrait format: a flame-like orange and gold form rises on a pale blue ground out of a green strip along the bottom edge — The Burning Busch, 2024on canvas202 x 150 x 5 cm

A neon green vertical form in the centre, flanked by orange and pink blossom shapes on a blue-turquoise ground — The Desire to Create, 2022on canvas120 x 122 x 5 cm

Two white egg- and drop-shaped fields with darkly patterned cores on an orange ground with a green band along the bottom edge — The Fatal Agony of Creation, 2023on canvas138 x 133 x 2 cm

A round, dense tangle of colourful looping lines above a salmon-coloured field on a pale blue ground — The Fatal Medusa Dance, 2024on canvas140 x 140 x 4 cm

Portrait format with an almond-shaped, concentrically layered line form in red, green and yellow on an orange-red ground — The Healing Mandorla, 2024on canvas140 x 80 x 2 cm

A dense vortex of concentric rings in blue, red and yellow on a pale blue ground — The Lost Gravitation of Vibrant Life, 2023on canvas122 x 120 x 5 cm

A red-orange arc and a dark blue, wing-like shape with an orange bulb on a pink and pale blue ground — The Parasite War, 2024on canvas127 x 125 x 2 cm

Cloudy reds, blues and violets running into one another, overlaid with fine scratched lines — Twilight Friend, 2023on canvas118 x 118 x 4 cm

Narrow portrait format with a totem-like figure of concentric lines in orange, red and white on a green and yellow speckled ground — Witch Whisperers, 2022on canvas150 x 85 x 2 cm

A pale blue and white radiating explosion of fine lines with red and yellow gradients on a pink ground — Yearning for Enlightenment, 2024on canvas122 x 124 x 5 cm

Cycles of Infinity

“Timestamps of universal essences.”

Three trees made of fine needle-like lines in red-brown on a pastel ground with colourful paint splatters — The Aura of Spring, 2021on canvas135 x 130 x 3 cm

Three fanned-out trees in yellow and red on a pink ground with paint splatters — The Aura of Summer, 2021on canvas142 x 140 x 2 cm

Three dense trees in rust red and brown on a pink and blue ground — The Aura of Autumn, 2021on canvas140 x 120 x 2 cm

Three narrow, dark blue tree columns on a pale blue and pink ground with splashes of colour — The Aura of Winter, 2022on canvas142 x 140 x 2 cm

Wide format: a blue, wedge-shaped path pushes into a colour field shot through with red — ZERO 1 – The Thrust Before Zero, 2022on canvas120 x 170 x 5 cm

Wide format with an orange-red upper half and a green lower half made of fine paint splatters — ZERO 2 – Selection Before Zero, 2022on canvas120 x 170 x 5 cm

A turquoise-blue core at the centre of a red and orange radiating colour field — ZERO 3 – Inception of Zero, 2022on canvas170 x 140 x 5 cm

Two yellow-orange cores at the centre of a flung red colour field with green dabs — ZERO 4 – From Inception to Infinity, 2024on canvas140 x 160 x 5 cm

A dark core from which red and blue lines are flung outwards in all directions — ZERO 5 – The Returning Zero, 2024on canvas172 x 137 x 5 cm

The artist standing in the open studio doorway, with shelves of stacked canvases and a colourful work behind him

About

“Our society demands that we function, and unlearns how to feel in the process. My art brings the suppressed emotional outburst back into the space of what is allowed.”

About me

Born in the Rhineland and raised in the Black Forest, I worked for many years as a manager in Baden-Württemberg and eventually built up my own company. For decades my daily reality was shaped by permanent success, functionality, efficiency and rational control – anchored in a system that, in the tight corset of economic mechanisms, forgives no mistakes. Emotional outbursts have no place there; in our world they are often reserved for children or for those pushed to the margins of society.

Alongside that thoroughly structured world, painting was always there too. It began as an existential outlet – the only space where the corset of control could be taken off, to give a face to suppressed emotions, fears of failure, tensions and unconscious impulses.

What started as an inner balance, almost a therapeutic companion process, grew over the years into a radical artistic necessity. Today art is my primary medium. My artistic position draws on the intense experience of those decades spent keeping a system running.

My position

The artist working at the studio table on a colourful piece, with a large-format painting of green and orange looping lines behind him

At the core of my artistic position is an inquiry into human emotionality. My work moves in the field of tension between systemic order and the emotional liberation of the subconscious. That liberation is far more than a personal loss of control; it reflects the reality of a society caught in professional, familial and value-based corsets.

Out of the tension between order and chaos, control and freedom, reason and emotion, my works open a resonant space for breaking free from society’s principles of function. My painting cracks that systemic rigidity open and makes the repressed feeling visible.

In short: it is the visual deconstruction of control, and it makes visible the universal human longing for an emotionally redeeming freedom.

My working process

Two tins of used brushes on the black studio work table, with a painting of green and yellow looping lines behind them

Working with abstract layers of colour and texture turns inner emotional states into visual timestamps of feeling. This “unconsciously conscious flow” spontaneously dissolves rational control. Complex emotional layers – unconscious and conscious alike – are mirrored in equally complex layers of colour and form, unconscious and conscious in turn.

Some works follow a clear vision from the very beginning, because the emotion to be freed shows itself right away. Others go through a complex journey of unconscious impulses and conscious interpretations. In these layers of colour and form the true emotion sometimes only reveals itself after many stages – in garish colour spaces, grimacing figures or hidden symbols. In the end the original message eludes the viewer and instead opens up the space for a truth entirely of their own.

Where the work is made

Atelier

Room for new perspectives

A new studio, a new chapter: moving into Waldstraße in Karlsruhe opens up entirely new perspectives and spaces for my art. These wonderfully large, light-flooded rooms are from now on the foundation on which all my new works are made.

For me this studio is both: a sheltered retreat for deep, concentrated work and, at the same time, a lively place of exchange. I see this space as an open platform for dialogue with other artists, art lovers and anyone interested. Here art becomes tangible – from the first brushstroke to the finished work.

Visit me at the studio:

Everyone is warmly invited to simply drop by, take in the atmosphere and start a conversation.

Waldstraße 66, 76133 Karlsruhe

A look into the studio: a bright room with a work table, easel, a shelf of paints and canvases leaning against the wall

The artist sorting large-format canvases in the studio in front of the materials shelf

Contact

For enquiries about works and exhibitions.

Phone

+49 171 5396804

Location

Waldstraße 66, 76133 Karlsruhe

Freedom for Freaks

Series

Freedom for Freaks

Cosmic Symbology

Cycles of Infinity

About me

My position

My working process

Atelier

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