Galvanis Art — Industrial Fine Art
Works Exhibitions Process Material Contact
Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) — Technology meets art

Circuit boards —
more than just a medium for signals.

Galvanis Art translates ideas, geometric figures and themes from the world of digital systems into physical, tangible artworks, in a range of sizes.

Exhibition · Stuttgart, Germany

On view at Neonbazaar

From October 17th to November 13th, all four pieces of the Absent Form series will be shown at the Neonbazaar gallery in Stuttgart.
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Single work

Eternal Harmony

Sacred geometry, drawn in copper traces on a circuit board.

Three motifs, one board: a sun, Metatron’s Cube and the Flower of Life, connected by traces that grow like circuitry. Gold and white lines on black.

Year2026
Edition1/1, unique piece
Size440 × 603 mm
MotifsSun, Metatron, Flower of Life
PriceOn request
StatusCurrently at the framer
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Exhibitions

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A group exhibition at NeonBazaar Art Gallery, Stuttgart.

A deliberately analog retreat in the middle of the city: a show about stepping away from screens and standing in front of real work. Expect radical minimalism, tactile materials and sculptures that take up physical space.

The Absent Form series is part of this exhibition. Phone away, glass of wine in hand — that’s the idea.

Exhibition page at NeonBazaar ↗
Dates17.10. – 13.11.2026
HoursWed – Sat, 1 – 6 pm
VenueNeonBazaar Art Gallery
AddressRotebühlplatz 20, Stuttgart
Opening nightHours may differ
Process

From digital twin to board

Every piece is made the way the electronics industry makes boards: digital first, then chemistry.

01

Digital twin

Everything starts as a complete digital twin: vectors, colors and the placement of every layer are defined on screen before anything physical exists.

All layers designed digitally
02

Machine language

The design is translated into the language of the factory: Gerber files, one for each layer (copper, soldermask, silkscreen, outline), plus drill data.

Output: Gerber + drill files
03

Etching

The raw board is a fiberglass core covered entirely in copper. The pattern is exposed onto it and the board goes into an etching bath that dissolves all unprotected copper. Only the designed traces stay.

Copper removed, pattern remains
04

Coating and finish

Soldermask lacquer is applied and gives the board its color, with chosen copper areas left open. Those areas are plated in ENIG, a thin layer of nickel topped with gold. Finally, white silkscreen ink is printed for lines and lettering.

Finish: soldermask, ENIG, silkscreen
The Material

It’s Actually a PCB

Not a printed picture of a circuit board — a real, functional-grade PCB, manufactured exactly like any board in the industry.

As an electronics engineer, I work with printed circuit boards almost every day — yet most people never actually see one, since it usually disappears inside a black plastic housing the moment a device is assembled. Each piece here is a genuine PCB, built up from FR4 fiberglass, copper, a soldermask coating and a white silkscreen layer. Soldermask is the thin lacquer that insulates the copper traces and gives the board its color — available in several finishes. Silkscreen is the printed white ink layer normally used for labels and markings.

The boards run through the exact same industrial process used to manufacture a MacBook motherboard or the server boards inside an AI data center — including etching, where unwanted copper is chemically dissolved away, leaving only the fine traces of the design behind.

FR4

Fiberglass core

Industry-standard substrate, same as any consumer or industrial board.

CU 1oz

Copper

Etched copper traces carrying the pattern across the board.

MULTI

Soldermask

Available in several colors — the lacquer that gives each board its look.

WHITE

Silkscreen

Printed ink layer, normally used for labels and component markings.

Get in Touch

Contact

Commissions are currently closed — but I’m always open to interesting art collaborations. Reach out anytime at contact@galvanisart.com.

StudioGermany
CommissionsCurrently closed
CollabsAlways open
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