Christian Macketanz
Born in Eutin in 1963, the artist Christian Macketanz studied under Maria Lassnig in Vienna, lived and worked in Rome and Berlin and has been teaching at the Dresden University of Fine Arts since 2010.
“With painterly refinement and a multitude of interwoven motifs borrowed from art history, the artist lures us into the interior of his paintings and exposes us to the shock of life's big and small paradoxes with the seductive power of a poetic enigma...”
Karin Thomas, Christian Macketanz, DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag, Cologne 2003.
“With his working method, Christian Macketanz indirectly addresses the power of the image and of painting: to make the conceived and the inexpressible tangible, to suggest, to point the way without forming dogmas and accepting that the viewer does not see the same image as that which the artist has painted. He himself speaks of “abstraction of content” in his construction of a pictorial motif, which shows us that the path back to a 100% reconstruction of the intended pictorial content is wilfully closed, that it is much more about seeing “one's own picture”.
Johannes Schmidt, Behauptung, Kerber Verlag, 2012.
Courses
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Kick, Galerie Ines Schulz, Dresden (DE).
Macketanz at Vila Löw-Beer, Brno (CZ).
2024 Bild im Bild, Galerie Schloss Wiespach, Hallein (AT).
2023 0-5 (10 Meter Kindheit), Oswaldz, Dresden (DE).
.story & stories, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg (AT).
2022 Janáčeck - Portraits, Janáčeck-Museum, Brno (CZ).
2019 Light in the Underground, Gallery 1. Patro, Prague.
.Camaïeu, Galerie Antonstadt, Dresden.
2018 Family Portrait, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento (IT).
.I’m Nobody, Who are You?, Oswaldz, Dresden.
2014 Herr Tutsch beim Zollamt, Galerie Wannieck, Brno (CZ).
2013 Amerika, Galerie m2a, Dresden.
.Inhalt, Koffer, Berlin.
2012 Behauptung, Städtische Galerie, Dresden.
2009 Das vertikale Labyrinth, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz (AT).
2008 Notte Lunga, Galleria Maniero, Rome.
2007 Die Eutiner Bilder, Ostholstein Museum, Eutin (DE).
Selected group exhibitions
2021 HierBetween mit Andreas Karner, Sehsaal, Vienna.
LNDSCP/New means for landscape, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento; Area 35 Art Gallery, Milan (IT); CRAG Chiono Reisovà Art Gallery, Turin (IT).
2020 autonarrativ with Sophie Thelen, Galerie Allerart, Bludenz (AT).
2018 Die 90er Jahre, MUSA, Vienna.
2017 Hom(m)e, Paolo Maria Deanesi-Gallery, Trento.
2016 Rabenmütter, LENTOS Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT).
2015 You knee them in the chin…, Spor Klübü, Berlin.
2014 Mensch werde wesentlich, Kunstverein Freunde aktueller Kunst, Zwickau (DE).
2010 Körper Codes, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
2006 ich hab ein Haus, ein Äffchen und ein Pferd… Werke aus der Sammlung für Kinder im Museum der Moderne – Salzburg, Rupertinum, Salzburg.
