Marc Brandenburg

Marc Brandenburg (*1965) ranks internationally among the leading graphic artists of our day. His work is a mix of drawing, collage, installation, video and performance. Detailed pencil drawings based on photographs constitute the core. Brandenburg takes these pictures on his forays around the world or else samples them from magazines, films and books. His drawings pick up on the contrasts of urban life and point a finger at social wrongs but also at superfluity and consumerism as products of late capitalism. He conveys not so much a narrative as a melancholy or sinister mood, subtly drawing attention to the crises of our time.

The major retrospective will be about 150 drawings, videos, tattoo editions and photographs.

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Some works in this exhibition feature nudity and sexual content.

Marc Brandenburg was born in West Berlin in 1965. He spent his early childhood in the United States. In 1977, he returned to his home city, where punk became a formative experience and he found himself in the creative subculture of West Berlin. Through fashion, Brandenburg came to art as an autodidact and he started exhibiting his drawings in the 1990s. Solo exhibitions followed, for instance, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (1993), MMK Frankfurt (2005), Denver Art Museum (2010), Hamburger Kunsthalle (2011), PalaisPopulaire (2021), Städel Museum (2021/2022), and many others. He lives and works today in Berlin and Barcelona.