Roman Manikhin is a Berlin-based artist working primarily with found wood. His sculptures explore love for life, human connection, and the quiet comedy of everyday experience, often drawn from personal and imagined family stories. With humor and tenderness, he reflects on the artist’s inner world, aging, and shifting values in a globalized society.

Recent works use richer color as a response to war, displacement, and the emotional residue of global crises. Memory and presence shape each piece, revealing tensions between past and present, inner myth and outer form.

Carved mostly with a chainsaw from reclaimed urban timber, his works give new life to what was once discarded. Folk traditions, myths, and archetypes meet surreal and ironic twists — dogs, parents, subcultures, trees, cities.

For Manikhin, art is both joy and resistance: a personal act of survival and care, opening space for tenderness and playful meaning.