Kitkat Club Portrait Extreme 9 Schnuckel 53 [iPad PREMIUM]

Portrait Extreme 9 challenges the viewer to look without categorizing. It asks: What remains when the mask of the everyday is surrendered — not lost, but freely given up at the cloakroom?

2024

The "53" refers neither to age nor seat number, but to the 53rd minute of a three-hour set — that liminal moment when the dance floor exhales and true faces emerge. "Schnuckel" (a German term of endearment for a cuddly person) is used here with ironic tenderness: the subject is at once untouchable and desperately human. Kitkat Club Portrait Extreme 9 Schnuckel 53

In the ninth installment of the Portrait Extreme series, the subject known only as "Schnuckel 53" becomes both mask and mirror. Shot in the half-light of KitKat Club’s back room — where velvet meets rubber and consent is the only currency — the portrait strips away curated identity. Schnuckel 53 faces the lens not as a person, but as a presence: part cherub, part cipher. Portrait Extreme 9 challenges the viewer to look

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Mixed media on unprimed canvas / digital capture from immersive performance

Since this doesn’t correspond to an existing known product or artwork, I’ll interpret it creatively — as if it’s the title of a provocative, avant-garde portrait from a fictional series exhibited at Berlin’s legendary KitKat Club.