Christian Jankowski (b. 1968, Göttingen, Germany) studied at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg and is considered one of the most influential contemporary conceptual artists. In ​​his works, he focuses on performance, film, video and photography, but also employs a variety of media, including painting, sculpture and drawing. Jankowski initiates collaborations between contemporary visual art and other professional worlds such as those of religion, business, politics and entertainment. 

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Over time, Jankowski has collaborated with magicians, politicians, news anchors, and members of the Vatican, to name just a few. Jankowski’s art is carried out in close exchange with mass media formats and their production mechanisms. The focus lies in the collective invention and the questioning of its power: testing the image. He took part in the 48th Venice Biennial in 1999 and in 2016 he was the first artist to curate Manifesta 11 in Zurich titled “What people do for money”. 

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Selected solo and group exhibitions: 4th Industrial Art Biennale (2023), Labin, Croatia; Sisters & Brothers (2023), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria; Maybe Tomorrow (2023), 16th Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador;  Overbeck Society (2023), Lubecker Museen, Germany; Neue Malerei: Cultural Cubism (2023), Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania; Travelling Artist (2022), Tubingen, Germany;TICKET TO THE FUTURE (2022), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; the Bangkok Art Biennale (2020); Sender and Receiver (2020), Fluentum Berlin, Germany; After Leaving | Before Arriving (2019), Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania; Floating World (2018), KCUA, South Korea; KNOCK KNOCK (2017), South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

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