Marie Wolf / Cicero / The Case of Johann Koenig

Where do fiction and reality blur in the case of Berlin gallerist Johann König? A journalist published an article about alleged misconduct by the partially blind gallerist toward women. A few years earlier, the same journalist had written a screenplay for a TV series in which a famous gallerist behaves inappropriately toward women and then has to watch as a feminist group brings his career to an end. Coincidence? In any case, it sounds like something straight out of a TV Series.

In her editorial illustrations, Marie Wolf uses metaphorical thinking and illustrative storytelling to let fiction and reality blur without taking sides. Through conceptual and editorial storytelling, she visually narrates the ambiguity of the case while depicting the gallerist’s damaged public image in a striking, symbolic way.

Art Director: Viola Schmieskors