Achim Mentzen
Living Sculpture
Achim Mentzen is a German entrepreneur, sales and marketing professional, lecturer and professional driver who has developed the artistic project Living Sculpture / Transparency Project since 2026.
His professional background spans international logistics, technical sales, key account management, business development, company management, marketing, quality management, digital marketing and adult education.
Press release
Achim Mentzen develops “Living Sculpture / Transparency Project” as a public performance project.
Since 2026 Achim Mentzen has been combining his personal biography with a radically visible exploration of the human body, nudity, shame, the public and self-determination. At its centre is a seven-day continuous performance in which the artist makes his own body and his everyday life the material of a living sculpture.
The work examines how social expectations link nudity with shame and sexualisation. The sentence “The human body is not obscene” is a central starting point. The audience is not obliged to adopt any particular attitude; rather, looks, irritation, conversation and different reactions are observed and documented as possible parts of the artistic situation.
Living Sculpture is presented as art and performance, not as a sexual service. Agreed safety, consent, house and legal frameworks remain part of every concrete realisation.
The project deliberately relies on a clear link between name, person and work: Achim Mentzen – Living Sculpture / Transparency Project. Public performances, press work, cultural contacts, documentation and digital archiving are meant to make this connection searchable in the long term.
The artistic project
Living Sculpture uses the artist's own body as the material of a live performance. The project examines nudity, shame, social norms, visibility and bodily self-determination.
The human body is not obscene.
The work does not ask audiences to adopt one particular view. It places an openly presented adult human body into a defined artistic and social context and documents the reactions, conversations and questions that arise.
The seven-day performance
- seven consecutive days
- continuous presence within the agreed performance area
- ordinary activities such as sleeping, eating and conversation
- audience dialogue within defined rules
- agreed photography and video documentation
- explicit safety, consent and house rules
The performance is presented as art and is not a sexual service.
Professional background
Achim Mentzen trained as a forwarding and logistics professional and later worked for many years in international sales, key account management, marketing and company leadership. He has held roles including Sales Manager, Key Account Manager and Prokurist and has worked with international customers and partners.
His qualifications include Certified marketing specialist (IHK), quality-management and auditing qualifications, and later training in digital marketing, SEM/web analytics, content marketing, social media and e-commerce.
Project and press archive
Project contacts
Website: achimmentzen.github.io
Phone: 0174 6134194
Email: achimmentzen20@gmail.com
For media and institutional enquiries, these are the public project contact details.
Nudity, visibility
and 24/7 presence.
At the heart of “Living Sculpture” is the fully visible human body. The naked body is not hidden but becomes visible, tangible and, over seven days, a continuous part of the performance – 24 hours a day.
The project combines nudity, physical visibility, the public, shame, perception and self-determination in a real, time-limited performance.
Imprint
Achim Mentzen
In den Bündten 25
79774 Albbruck
Germany
Phone: 0174 6134194
Email: achimmentzen20@gmail.com
Professional qualifications: Freight forwarding clerk (IHK) · Certified marketing specialist (IHK)
Responsible for content: Achim Mentzen, In den Bündten 25, 79774 Albbruck, Germany.