Artist of the week from Germany - in pictures

The ugly side of beauty, Tjorg Douglas Beer's installation depicts strange amorphic creatures with their wares. Diamonds and Bones, 2010, installation, different materials Photograph: Florian Schneider/PR

Many of Beer's paintings focus on the hysterical paranoia of 21st-century living. General Threat, 2011, painting Photograph: PR

Enchanting and inventive, Beer creates Miro-like paintings of a surreal nature. Man with a Mind II, 2011, painting Photograph: PR

Beer's childlike vision of a mad world is darkly comic. Princess Utopia, 2011, painting Photograph: PR

Photographer Annette Kelm transforms everyday objects into sculpture by staging them against disparate patterns. Frying Pan, 2007, photograph
Photograph: Courtesy Herald St, London and Johann König, Berlin

Flying in the face of reality, Kelm plays with surface tensions. Yellow (paisley), 2010, photograph
Photograph: Courtesy Herald St, London and Johann König, Berlin

Kelm makes the pedestrian alien in her simple studies of everyday objects. Anonymous, lilac clock bag, 2007, photograph
Photograph: Courtesy Herald St, London and Johann König, Berlin

L'enfant terrible Jonathan Meese subverts our reading of art history with his raucous works. Die Saalhautyng der Mickrigen Realitat (Diktatyr der Kunst de PYPP), 2008, oil and mixed media on canvas Photograph: Jochen Littkemann/Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Spitting at sacred cows, Meese's art plays a Nietzschean game. Chef de Chef de Ponypony of Baby, 2008, oil and mixed media on canvas Photograph: Jochen Littkemann/Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Combining folklore with film, Jonathan Meese's sculptures have a timeless quality. Mama Johnny (Noel Coward is Back), 2005, Bronze sculpture Photograph: Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, and Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin