Philip A. Zimmermann was born in 1988 and is a painter and photographer who lives and works in his hometown of Saarbrücken, Germany.

His practice is directly derived from Urban Art and Graffiti, with which he has been involved since the early 2000s. Through his work Zimmermann expresses the experiences, moods and emotions he has faced at some point in his life, while documenting our rapidly changing times.

In his works, Zimmermann turns his everyday observations into a well-structured visual critique of politics and consumerism. The ephemeral aspect of tagging is linked to the need for a renewal and the idea of constantly painting on things that already exist.

As Zimmermann says: “Public Street art is an essential critic against the system and the establishment. This fight should be led by the young people, instead of wasting their years in front of a screen.”