Christian Jankowski

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Christian Jankowski (born April 21, 1968 in Göttingen ) is a German concept and action artist . His video installation and his staging of role-playing games deal with the relationship between artists, art institutions, the media and society.

life and work

Jankowski grew up in Göttingen and played in rock bands like Nameless and Mephista . At the beginning of the 1990s he moved to Hamburg as an avowed Udo Lindenberg fan . Since his admission to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts was rejected, he studied at the same time as Jonathan Meese and John Bock as a "black listener". He used the shop window of his Hamburg shop apartment as a place for his first artistic performances (with Frank Restle: Schamkasten , 1992).

In another early work from 1992 entitled “The Hunt” , Jankowski shot yogurt pots, bread, a deep-frozen chicken and margarine with a bow and arrow in a supermarket and ate them for a week. As a contribution to the Venice Biennale in 1999, Jankowski submitted a video production in which he telephoned five well-known Italian television fortune-tellers and asked them about his future as an artist. The questions he asked in clumsy German-Italian about whether he would be a famous artist or his contribution to the Biennale were answered ambiguously. “The result was a great, poetic confusion of language - and in the end, the fortune tellers turned into art got right. It was precisely this work that made him famous. "

In 2000, Jankowski was nominated together with three other artists for the “Prize of the Friends of the National Gallery ” in Berlin, which was awarded for the first time and valued at (converted) 50,000 euros . In his competition entry , he had four professional speechwriters compete against each other, each of whom praised an artist in the competition in clichéd advertising language with great seriousness in a laudation . The ironic performance not only questioned the “artist competition”, but also the art world. Jankowski did not receive the award.

In his video film "Art Market TV" , for the Expo 2008 in Stuttgart, Jankowski made a teleshopping - Moderator occur that the viewer works of artists Jeff Koons and Franz West offered in a manner that in no way from the usual television promotions for Foot warmers or slimming pills differed.

For another, two-part work for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart entitled “Service meeting” , he asked the museum staff to exchange their professions and functions in the museum. An uninitiated director was then commissioned by Jankowski to make a documentary about the museum. Jankowski “... has put everything, from catalog design to exhibition design, from marketing to press work, into the wrong hands. And watch what happens. ” In the second part of the installation, the“ handover protocols ”, he filmed the employees giving each other tips on how to cope with their new role before changing roles. These one-to-one conversations were shown on twenty-six monitors in the exhibition. “Of course, the aesthetic of the real - the documentary - shatters on the hidden fiction. It is a philosophical game that stands behind these apparent gags: The world is being converted into a stage whose reality consists only of inventions, role-playing games, what-ifs. " According to the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, " [he] uses the formats of the mass media, to question the role of art, politics, entertainment, business and global marketing strategies with subtle humor ... "

On November 13th, 2009 he designed the cultural program aspekte on ZDF, and in 2013 the stage design for Kippenberger at the Cologne Theater ! An excess of the moment . In 2013 he received the Videonale Prize of the Kfw Foundation for the video work "Casting Jesus" and in 2015 the Finkenwerder Art Prize .

In 2016, Jankowski designed the 11th edition of the touring exhibition Manifesta as a curator under the title What People Do For Money , which took place from 6 June to 18 September 2016 at various locations in Zurich. Thirty residents of the city with different professions each inspired an artist - based on their experiences - to undertake a specific art project.

In 2017 he was a member of the short film jury at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival .

Jankowski holds a professorship for sculpture (installation, performance, video) at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . He lives and works in Berlin, Hamburg and New York.

Exhibitions (selection)

Scholarships

Fonts

  • Zones of disruption. steirischer herbst, Graz 1997, p. 182f.
  • Enter: Artist / Audience / Institution. Kunstmuseum Luzern, 1997, pp. 28–30.
  • My first book. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 1998
  • Magic Circle. revolver, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, ISBN 978-3-9806326-3-8 .
  • Everything Fell Together. Des Moines Art Center, 2006, ISBN 978-1-879003-42-2 . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Parkett (PDF) Edition 80, Parkett Verlag, Zurich 2007, p. 75
  2. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Christian Jankowski . In: Kultur Spiegel 8/2000 of July 31, 2000
  3. ↑ Christian Jankowski, 24, and Frank Restle, 25 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1992 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Claudia Ihrfeld: With a bow and arrow through the supermarket . In: die.stimme.de, accessed on October 29, 2008
  5. ↑ a b Niklas Maak: Early retirees in horror masks . In: FAZ , October 24, 2008
  6. ↑ Antonia Bern Eike: art project roles . In: Spiegel Online
  7. ^ Kunstmuseum Stuttgart ( Memento from December 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 29, 2008
  8. ↑ Bonner General-Anzeiger from 16./17. February 2013, page 14.
  9. ↑ Till Briegleb: In the literal sense, breathtaking. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 13, 2016
  10. ^ Article What I still have to take care of. The Neons Project ( January 8, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ). Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville et du Canton, Geneva.
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personal data
SURNAME Jankowski, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist in conceptual art
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen