Christian Awe

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Christian Awe (* 1978 in Berlin-Lichtenberg ) is a German street artist and painter .

Life

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Christian Awe sprayed graffiti in Berlin from the age of 12 . He studied at the Berlin University of the Arts , where he was a student of Georg Baselitz until 2005 and Daniel Richter's master student in 2006 . In 2011 he attended as Artist in Residence , the Princeton University , Princeton (New Jersey) , where he served as urban artist taught students. Since 2012 he has been a board member and mentor in The Young Mesopotamians project at the College of Fine Arts at Baghdad University . Since 2013 he has been a member of the board of the non-commercial Marma Berlin Project , which gives four artists the opportunity to work in Berlin for three months every year.

In 2012, Awe won a Europe-wide competition organized by the Howoge housing association for the artistic design of a 500-square-meter gable wall of the prefabricated building at Frankfurter Allee 192, opposite the former Stasi headquarters in Lichtenberg . In 2015, he decorated the office building at Hauptstrasse 117 in Berlin-Schöneberg with a 162 square meter facade entitled “Adanzé”, which means “a warm welcome” in many West African languages.

His work has been described as a synthesis of street art and abstract expressionism . His complex works can consist of up to fifteen different layers of paint, one on top of the other. He runs a studio in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

Works (selection)

  • Sunbathing , 2004
  • I'm all over it , 2012
  • Choosing the way , 2012
  • Invincible , 2012
  • The Way You Make Me Feel , 2012
  • Wishing on a star , 2013
  • get lucky , 2013
  • Celebrate , 2013
  • Reflect , 2013
  • Don't Hurry Love , 2015
  • Astarte , 2016
  • dilucide , 2016
  • liqa , 2016
  • su , 2016
  • force , 2016
  • Spring , 2016
  • light blessed water , 2017
  • D'une étoile l'autre , 2018
  • dancing lines , 2018
  • Firewater (eruptive) , 2018
  • jacuzzi , 2018
  • nuages ​​colorées , 2018
  • up in the air , 2018
  • can sea it , 2018

Exhibitions (selection)

  • "Abstract Worlds" - Sam Francis, Christian Awe. Berlin, 2009
  • Christian Awe - Tanja Rochelmeyer. Berlin, 2012
  • Christian Awe "Resurrecting Color". Berlin, 2012
  • Solo exhibition in the Alte Oberpostdirektion in Hamburg (organized by Jenny Falckenberg), May 2013
  • Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf, 2014, 2016
  • Christian Awe - "Amour Fou". Düsseldorf, 2014
  • Solo exhibition “Beyond the Palettes”. Sezon Art Gallery, Tokyo, 2016.
  • "En vie", art @ sanofi, Berlin, 2016
  • "Wazzer", Volksbank Gallery, Weinheim, 2016
  • "Fluid", Kunstverein, Duisburg, 2016
  • “Jeux d'eau”, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden, 2017
  • "Influx", Ostendorff Gallery, Münster, 2017
  • Solo exhibition chusho 抽象, Anteroom, Kyoto, 2019
  • Art Dubai , Galerie Tore Suessbier, 2019
  • Art Cologne , Ludorff Gallery, 2019
  • Gallery Weekend , Berlin 2019

Publications

various

In 2005 Awe was German streetball champion .

The video for the title Sea of ​​Colors by the Berlin band Berge showed the artist Awe at work in the studio in some sequences in 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c German artist Christian Awe. In: Euromaxx , Deutsche Welle from January 6, 2012.
  2. ^ A b Claudia Fuchs: Street Art in Berlin. Dare more color. In: Berliner Zeitung of July 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b Christian Awe. Dreams of life Lichtenberg. In: Lichtenberg Open Art (LOA Berlin)
  4. ↑ Urban Art: Berlin as European Street Art Laboratory (from 0:02:20) on YouTube , February 2, 2012, accessed on April 25, 2019 (In: Arte ).
  5. ^ Sara Klinke: Art for the gray house wall. Christian Awe presents new art project “Andanzé” in Schöneberg. In: Berliner Abendblatt , issue 19 of May 9, 2015, p. 7.
  6. ^ Introducing Christian Awe. In: Sleek from January 19, 2017.
  7. ↑ Nikki Bedi: On Tour in Berlin. Artist Christian Awe guides Nikki Bedi on a tour of Berlin's secret cultural highlights. In: The Arts Hour, BBC World Service, April 4, 2017.
  8. ↑ DNB 999894374
  9. ↑ DNB 1031291024
  10. ↑ DNB 1024102785
  11. ↑ Janina Kirsch: Christian Awe is a picture of a graffiti sprayer. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 29, 2013.
  12. ↑ DNB 1103242091
  13. ↑ DNB 1051960568
  14. ↑ "Beyond the Palettes" - Christian Awe exhibits in Japan. In: athesia-verlag.de of November 13, 2016.
  15. ↑ a b c d e Christian Awe . In: Enter Art Foundation.
  16. ↑ Christian Awe . In: christianawe.com
  17. ^ Mountains : sea ​​of ​​colors . 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Awe, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German street artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichtenberg