Mark Bohle is an artist and designer based in Barcelona. His collaborative graphic practice has gained numerous international awards, including the Prix Espoir at the International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont and the Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prize at the Lahti Poster Triennial in Finland. His work has been exhibited internationally and is present in various museums and private collections. Together with Nam Huynh he runs the design studio NAM. He teaches Typography at the master program Visual Design as well as Visual Experimentation at the master program Beyond Branding at Elisava University Barcelona. He has worked for clients such as Puma, Nike or Stabilo among others.
Photo: Felix Wittich
PUBLICATIONS
● »Pica Pica 2« Handshake, 2025, ISBN: 979-13-990135-4-2
● »Pica Pica« Handshake, 2024, ISBN: 978-84-127450-5-4
● »Tonight At Merlin« Prima.Publikationen, 2020, ISBN: 978-3-9821198-3-0
● »Research Garden« self-published, 2019
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
● 2026: »Cadavre Exquis« (group show), Alzueta Gallery, Paris | »Lord Sandwich and the Bikini Roads«, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona
● 2024: »The Wonky Tales of Goofy Castle«, Taula, Barcelona | »Terra Rossa« (group show), Design Museum, Barcelona | »Coatlicue«, Te Quiero Mucho, Barcelona | »Taca Taca«, Taca, Palma de Mallorca | »Terra Rossa« (group show), Milan
● 2023: »Kamanar« (group show), Space to be, Madrid, a project by Marc Morro & Foundawtion
● 2022: »Disco Not Disco« (group show), BLMK, Cottbus | »Audio Graphic« (group show), MKG, Hamburg
● 2021: »Untitled«, Colapso, Barcelona
● 2020: »Speculative Grammar«, Taca, Palma de Mallorca
● 2019: »Stick It« (group show), RFI Gallery, Hamburg | »Unnoticed Identities« (festival contribution), MIRA Digital Arts Festival, Barcelona, in collaboration with Does Work
WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
● 2026: Workshop with NAM at Intuit Lab School, Marseille | »Tools to Message«, workshop at Elisava University, Barcelona | Workshop at Te Quiero Mucho, Barcelona
● 2025: Workshop at Festival Asalto, Zaragoza | »Forever Messages«, workshop with NAM at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart | »Tools to Type«, workshop at Elisava University, Barcelona | Workshop at Te Quiero Mucho, Barcelona
● 2024: Lecture with NAM at Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden | »Hand Tool Head«, workshop with Júlia Esqué and Jaume Ramírez at Elisava University, Barcelona | »Wurst Zeit Schrift«, workshop with NAM at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg
● 2023: »Story Carnival«, workshop with NAM at Intuit Lab School, Marseille | »Lunchtime Lecture«, lecture with NAM at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg | »Research & Motion Graphics«, lecture with NAM at Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg | »Tools to Type«, workshop at Elisava University, Barcelona
● 2022: Lecture with NAM at INTL Assembly, Glasgow | Lecture with NAM at Bauhaus University, Weimar | »Aloha Free Wall«, workshop with Marc Morro at Elisava University, Barcelona | »Experimental Poster Design and Moving Image«, workshop together with NAM at ESDAC Marseille
● 2021: »Experimental Poster Design«, workshop at Elisava University, Barcelona | Online lecture at INTL Assembly | »Experimental Poster Design«, online workshop with NAM at INTL Assembly
● 2020: »Fun Work Business Teaching«, online lecture, Zibuse | »From Screen to Space«, online workshop, C-Idea Design Award
● 2019: »Summer Course Packaging Design« at IED, Barcelona | »Copy and Paste Waves«, workshop with Mareen Wrobel at Lunga Art School, Iceland
● 2018: »Summer Course Packaging Design« at IED, Barcelona
AWARDS (SELECTION)
● 2025: International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont | Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo
● 2024: Demo Festival | 1st prize, Concurs pel disseny de l'enllumenat de Nadal de la ciutat de Barcelona | INTL International Assembly
● 2023: International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont | Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo
● 2022: Prize Nominee Work, Type Directors Club Tokyo
● 2021: Prix Espoir, International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont
● 2020: Type Directors Club Tokyo | 100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz | Global Biennial of Graphic Design Golden Bee Moscow
● 2019: International Graphic Design Biennial Chaumont | Antwerp Poster Festival
● 2018: Nomination, A Design Award | International Poster Biennial Warsaw
● 2017: 1st prize, Grafia Tapani Aartomaa Prize, Lahti Poster Triennial | Macau Design Biennial | Type Directors Club Tokyo
● 2016: Global Biennial of Graphic Design Festival Scotland | Taipei International Design Award | Poster Triennial Toyama | Type Directors Club Tokyo | 100 Beste Plakate Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz
COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)
● Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus
● German Poster Museum at Museum Folkwang, Essen
● MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
● Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
● Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva, Lahti
● Le Signe – centre national du graphisme, Chaumont
● Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
INQUIRIES
If you are interested in purchasing a painting, please contact Alzueta Gallery or send an email.
CONTACT
● Website: markbohle.com
● Mail: info@markbohle.de | hello@namandmark.com
● Social Media: Instagram
● Address: Studio Mark Bohle, C/ de Bolívia 239, 5º, 08020 Barcelona, Google Maps