Swen Kählert studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and further honed his artistic skills through studies, including with painter and graphic artist Prof. Armin Sandig. In 1997, he received an international scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society, which took him to Venezuela, where he designed concepts for metro stations and public spaces in Caracas. In 2011, he attended the Pentiment Summer Academy under the German artist Thorsten Brinkmann. His career highlights include winning the 2014 Kunstflecken Festival competition in Neumünster (DE), where he realised his large installation INSEL, being selected for the 2017 Floating Art Festival at the Vejle Kunstmuseum (DK) and exhibiting at the Maritimes Museum Ameland (NL) in 2019. Additionally, he held a solo exhibition in 2015 at the Buxtehude Museum (DE).
Kählert approaches painting in a boundary-crossing way. As a painter, he experiments with materials, while the architect in him always thinks spatially. Utilizing this multi-perspective approach, he creates works that effortlessly leave behind traditional genres, instead occupying an intermediate space between painting, objects, and micro-architecture.