Max Kersting collects seemingly trivial photographs and creates new pictures by painting over them; in Planet der Anfänger the material comes from his own life. A gang from Lippstadt in Germany is captured in shaky pictures that look like colourful shadows gone wild, and the interplay with Kersting's short texts condenses a feeling that, from outside, looks like brutally barren boredom but is at its core the nucleus of all later life: stumbling into real life as an entangled, self-involved, smooching pseudo-skater with the firm intention of somehow getting it right. Kersting, born in 1983 in Lippstadt, studied design in Düsseldorf and is known for his painting on old photographs.