Michael Behrens

Michael Behrens(born 1973 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German sculptor working with glass. He operates internationally, mainly in Europe and North America.

Michael Behrens, grown up in Neuss, lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. From 1999 to 2003 Behrens studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, Netherlands where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2003 .

In 2004 and 2007, Behrens worked as a project supervisor for Ethiopian Reflections in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. In 2008 and 2009, he was assigned as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture – Plastic Shaping at the Technical University (TU) Darmstadt. In 2010, Michael Behrens spent several months in Damascus, Syria, coordinating and supervising the Arte Vetro project "Kiln-Formed Glass".

Behrens regularly participates in international art fairs such as the Art Palm Beach (Florida, US), SOFA Chicago (Illinois, US), Pan Amsterdam (Netherlands), Art Breda (Netherlands) and ART.FAIR Cologne (Germany). His work is part of public collections like the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf/Germany, the Ernsting Stiftung () in Coesfeld/Germany, the "Modern Glass" Museum in Öhringen, the near Kassel/Germany and the Seven Bridges Foundation in Greenwich/Connecticut/US.

Michael Behrens began experimenting with glass in 2002. Nature and the surrounding environment, especially the underwater world, inspire his work. The reduction to few colors and the cell structures resulting from the fusion of the utilized glass pieces, are the main characteristics of his works. The relationship between shape and content is of high importance in Behrens' work. The outer shapes of his sculptures appear deliberately random, supported by the fine, relief-like crimped modeling of the edges and the interplay of matt and polished surfaces.

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