kenconsumer

Ken Wiatrek, who works as kenconsumer, is an American artist based in Berlin, Germany. He earned art degrees in the mid-1990s and worked in the anime industry, serving as Director of Marketing at ADV Films, before relocating to Europe in 2008. In Berlin he founded and directed the gallery SP2 Contemporary. His work combines hand-drawing, digital techniques and machine-driven plotter processes. Recent series include STRIPDE, a group of pen-plotter works drawing on the stripe patterns of CRT television imagery, presented by Galerie Met and Verse in Berlin in February 2025, and AAT Rd1, shown in the group exhibition (Land)scape in Berlin in November 2025. In Names of Places I Have Never Heard he treats painting as a form of cartography. He is a Founding Tender at tender.art and hosts the podcast Arbitrarily Deterministic, on art, technology and popular culture.