Frank Oehring lives and works as an artist in Berlin. In his Kreuzberg studio, he creates a wide range of works for public spaces, including large-scale colored wall reliefs, light objects, and freestanding sculptures for both public and private settings.

After studying painting in the 1960s at the University of the Arts in Berlin, Frank Oehring developed complex neon sculptures and, in the 1970s, created the information and wayfinding system as well as the 10-meter-high Grosse Lichtplastik (Large Light Sculpture) for the International Congress Center (ICC) in Berlin.

These early works were documented in the ZDF-produced film Neon Licht Kunst – Objects That Glow, alongside artists Stefan Antonakis, Cork Macheschi, Bruce Nauman, and Frank Oehring as the only European artist featured. Since the 1990s, Oehring has been creating space objects made of aluminum, color field sculptures, and reliefs made from spherical surfaces and strips. These works are painted like canvases, with pulsating color fields that seem to glow with depth depending on the changing light.

These abstract color-light-sound compositions continuously transform with the shifting daylight. Exhibitions include: Modus Berlin, Glyptothek Munich, Retrospective at the Berliner Festspielgalerie, Academy of the Arts Berlin, DAAD Gallery Berlin, Aedes West Berlin, Extension Pavilion of the Aedes Gallery Berlin, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Kunstgewerbemuseum of the State Museums in Berlin.

His works are held in private and public collections