wetboysarchive is the work of berlin-based artist robert schaefer (b.1971). his visual practice is rooted in years spent observing queer masculinity across different environments — from berlin’s club culture and its camera-free safe spaces, such as berghain and kitkat, to everyday moments of youth, desire and self-presentation unfolding in public and private settings.

in places where intimacy happens beyond documentation, schaefer works from memory, gesture and atmosphere rather than photographic reference, reconstructing scenes that exist as much in recollection as in physical experience.

drawing on a background in visual communication, philosophy and creative direction, he uses digital, oil-like painting to hold on to moments that were never meant to be fixed — forming a personal archive of fragments shaped by vulnerability, observation and desire.

wetboysarchive continues to evolve as a body of work moving between lived experience, reconstruction and the shifting aesthetics of queer masculinity.