The artist allows some carelessness in his works, which are characterized by rough strokes, deliberately vulgar color shades, and jagged lines that do not fit into any of the ideas of professional avant-garde art. In this way, Oehlen talks about endless and chaotic combinations of forms and removes all restrictions, denying artistic norms in painting.

The artist himself describes his work as a “post-subjectless” painting, the concept of which is to deconstruct abstract art.