Hendrik Czakainski

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Hendrik Czakainski (born August 11, 1979 in Aurich ) is a contemporary German artist whose work can be located somewhere between sculpture, painting and sculpture.

Life

After working as a screen printer and training as a carpenter in Kulmbach , Czakainski moved to Berlin in 2000 , where he has lived and worked as a freelance artist ever since. Czakainski briefly attended the Berliner Etage - School for the Performing and Fine Arts (2000–2001), assisted the artists Markus Draper (2005–2007) and Wolfgang Flad (2007–2010). Since 2009, Czakainski's works have been continuously shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad ( France , USA , Finland , Belgium ), and since 2013 the artist has worked as a lecturer in the field of free representation at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .

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At the beginning of his work, Czakainski mainly dealt with large-format oil painting . In the course of time he moved away from the flat, two-dimensional surface towards relief-like works and free-standing sculptures , which still define his work today. In his work, Czakainski combines a wide variety of materials such as wood, cardboard, HDF , MDF , fabric, mortar , chromolux and iron powder and uses acids, acrylic paints , varnishes and airbrush to obtain the surface structure and color that is characteristic of his work. Materiality and substance are central aspects in Czakainski's work. By alienating the materials used, Czakainski creates illusionistic textures, whose extraordinary material aesthetics are considered characteristic of the artist's work.

From the sculptural and relief-like images can be Czakainskis bird's eye views of slums , urban structures and heavily distorted reading marked by traces of destruction and devastation industrial plants. Restless and rugged structures go hand in hand with elements of a distinct, reduced design language that shows precise, clear lines.

In his works, Czakainski works with impressions from his own travels (mainly Southeast Asia ) as well as various documentations and image research and translates the often negative excesses of our globalized and increasingly urbanized world as well as the humanitarian and ecological catastrophes that accompany it into his own formal language. In this way, Czakainski's works seem to have an aesthetic quality that moves on a fine line between destruction, devastation and a language of exciting compositions and forms. It is precisely the tension between these antipodes that inspires him.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018: Monumenta , Leipzig
  • 2017: Art auction of the Galerie am Klostersee, Lehnin
  • 2016: Urban Spree at La Vallée , La Vallée, Brussels
  • 2016: "THE DARK ROOMS EXHIBITION", Berlin
  • 2015: Brave New Worlds , Affenfaust Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2014: I am 1UP , Urban Spree Galerie, Berlin
  • 2013: Illuminations of Wedding, Transmediale, SUPERMARKT, Berlin
  • 2013: 7 from the association, Kunstverein Kulmbach
  • 2013: Group exhibition, Studio Baustelle , Berlin
  • 2012: Megapolization, Art Association Bayreuth
  • 2011: Juried annual exhibition, Kunstverein Kulmbach
  • 2011: Kunsthaus Meinblau , Pfefferberg, Berlin
  • 2009: Into Nature, Grünerhund , Berlin

Web links

http://www.hendrikczakainski.com/

https://www.widewalls.ch/hendrik-czakainski-interview/

Hendrik Czakainski Portrait 2017: https://vimeo.com/234976650

Trailer for: Urban Investigations Redux : https://vimeo.com/188399684

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita on the artist's homepage. Retrieved on August 6, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ Vita on the artist's homepage. Retrieved on August 6, 2018 (German).
  3. ↑ Current work on the artist's homepage. Retrieved on August 6, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Hendrik Czakainski: Je m'efforce de jouer des illusions / I try to play with illusions . In: Architecture d'Aujourd'hui . No. 413 , July 2016, p. 120-123 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Hendrik Czakainski . In: STUART Urban art magazine . No. 6 , September 2017, p. 91-97 .
  6. ↑ Elodie Cabrera: Hendrik Czakainski - Les attractions Disasters / Enlighten disasters . In: GraffitiArt . No. 35 , October 2017, p. 66-77 .
personal data
SURNAME Czakainski, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurich