Christian Macketanz
Painting Tells Stories: Two Weeks in Salzburg's Most Beautiful Studio
18. – 30. 8. 25
Pictures told – and still tell – stories by and about people, about our paths through life, our ideas, our origins and beliefs, and our view of the world. Ever since we have existed, we have told stories, often by painting them on walls.
As artists, we are always interested in the question of narrating. How, in times of moving pictures (in film, television and for the past 30 years also in new media), is it possible to represent a contemporary, authentic narrative in a painted picture? Can it still appeal to people and touch their hearts?
Over these two weeks, we will enter into the adventurous river of painting: one bank is shaped by the pictorial worlds of human existence and myths; the other is formed through our highly individual life-worlds and experiences.
In this course, we will discuss the question "What is narrative?", and investigate our pictorial answers. We will concentrate on each individual participant, as well as holding group discussions on the works.
We will devote the first two days to the topic of colour, in order to develop a common understanding of how to talk about colour and colour relations (colour workshop with Katrina Pennington, https://katrinalpennington.com). Then we will conceptualise our life-worlds in painting.
Besides individual works, a large-format wall-painting will be created, designed by the entire class.
Information
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 18. – 30. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (German and Italian possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- None
- What to bring
- Preferred painting tools, brushes, paints, etc. All paints (oil, acrylic, tempera) are possible. Please do not use turpentine for oil paints; use alternatives (solvent-free gel or oil media) or water-mixable oil paints.
- Maximum number of participants
- 20
- Co-teacher
- Wiebke Herrmann
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
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Bild im Bild, Galerie Schloss Wiespach, Hallein (AT).
2023 0-5 (10 Meter Kindheit), Oswaldz, Dresden (DE).
2023 story & stories, Stadtgalerie Lehen, Salzburg (AT).
2022 Janáčeck - Portraits, Janáčeck-Museum, Brno (CZ).
2019 Light in the Underground, Gallery 1. Patro, Prague.
2019 Camaïeu, Galerie Antonstadt, Dresden.
2018 Family Portrait, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Trento (IT).
2018 I’m Nobody, Who are You?, Oswaldz, Dresden.
2014 Herr Tutsch beim Zollamt, Galerie Wannieck, Brno (CZ).
2013 Amerika, Galerie m2a, Dresden.
2013 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.
2021 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 mit 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.
Wiebke Herrmann
born 1987 in Dresden
Education
2009 HfBK Dresden, study of fine arts, sculpture class of Wilhelm Mundt
from 2010 Painting class of Christian Macketanz
2016 Diploma
2016-18 Master student with Christian Macketanz
2023/24 Assistant professor in Christian Macketanz's class, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Like a Prayer, Kirche Maria am Wasser, Dresden (DE).
2022 Folie à deux, Wiebke Herrmann & Dana Berg, Gallery Oswaldz Temporary, Dresden.
2020 Meine hundert besten Freunde, Wiebke Herrmann & Thomas Judisch, Galerie Raskolnikow, Dresden.
2020 Tabula Rosa, Stadtarchiv Dresden.
2018 Flügge, Kunstraum Braugasse, Hoyerswerda (DE).
2016 Die Leiden der jungen W., Kunstraum Neuer Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Just tell me a story, Migrant Bird Space Gallery, Berlin.
2024 Finding Narratives, Chapter III+IV, Kunstverein Meißen (DE).
2023 Internationale Triennale: 3-Häuser-Kunstpfade, Eifel (DE).
2022 Neuzugänge zeitgenössischer Kunst im Kunstfonds 2020/21, Landesvertretung des Freistaates Sachsen beim Bund, Berlin.
2022 11 Jahre SALZ-Verlag – und weiter als wär‘ nichts gewesen, Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz (DE).
2021 WIN/WIN, Halle 14 für zeitgenössische Kunst, Spinnerei, Leipzig (DE).
2021 Existenz, Chapter II: Spuren, Oktogon, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden.
2020 Ortgespräche mit Weltempfänger, Isa Genzken – Wiebke Herrmann – Svea Duve – André Tempel – Antje Guske – Silvio Zesch in Zusammenarbeit mit den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden und der Sammlung Hoffmann, Kunstverein Meißen.
2020 salondergegenwart X, Alter Wall 20-22, Hamburg
2019 Deep Surface, a room that, Baumwollspinnerei Halle 14, Leipzig.
2019 Ich wohne in der Möglichkeit, Masterclass of Christian Macketanz, sehsaal, Wien
