Frank Bölter began using his work to challenge expectations both inside and outside the academic art world while a student at the Münster Academy of Fine Arts from 1998 to 2003. "Bölter's projects are distinguished equally by their powerful poetic imagery and by the precision of their execution, often carried out under the difficult conditions of the public sphere. Moreover his projects are predicated on an impressive effort to communicate, which leaves traditional definitions of object and practise behind and expands his installations into the realm of the performative." (Jörg van den Berg, Columbus Art Foundation)