Michael Kiessling aka GODLING spent his childhood in the Karolinenviertel in Hamburg. In 1987, inspired by hip-hop culture, he started spray painting. In 1991, he founded the UZI Crew (UZI = Urban Zone Infiltration) with like-minded people. He started painting on canvas at an early age, but always remained true to the street. In 1991, he and his colleague ArtOne first place in the graffiti competition of the Altonaer Museum. These pictures have been in the museum collection ever since.
Today he works as a freelance artist, designer and poet and is constantly working with other media and looking for new ways to combine them with graffiti. This technical mix and various stays abroad have now merged into an experimental style that does not adhere to conventions. GODLING does not allow himself to be tied down in terms of content or design, but paints with technical precision what concerns him personally.