Biography

The works of the artist, who was born in Berlin in 1978, impress with their color intensity, energy and rhythm. Carried by a lightness, Awe combines colors and shapes and creates a moment of freedom and joie de vivre for the viewer.

Influenced by his teachers Georg Baselitz and Daniel Richter, Christian Awes painting is also influenced by a wide range of artistic styles. Traces of American Abstract Expressionism, tachistic or informal color structures flow into his compositions. Abstracted forms imply a particular degree of movement that literally pushes out of the picture and makes its surface tactile. Streams of color, powerful splashes and spontaneous gestures cover the layers below and form an exciting symbiosis in a dialogue of spontaneity, experiment and artistic calculation.

Different levels, which at first glance appeal to the senses, but on closer inspection allow you to see and feel much more and always new things, give Christian Awe's works a rhythm and depth of space that is typical for them.

Whether on canvas or paper - Awe's complex works fascinate with their radiance and their finely nuanced liveliness. They unite to form poetically pulsating worlds of color that touch the senses and carry us away into a world of colors and emotions.

Christian Awes' works of art are not only regularly presented in international museum exhibitions, but are also represented, for example, in the collection in the art space of the German Bundestag in Berlin and in the SPM Salsali Private Museum in Dubai.

Single Exhibitions (selection)

2021

color and vibes, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld

I, sea, Coburg Art Association

2020

HeartBeat, Kunsthalle Rostock

O ‘de vie, Kunstverein Hockenheim

2019

chusho, Anteroom, Kyoto, Japan

Christian Awe - new work, Galerie Noah, Augsburg

Water-color, Sparkasse Gevelsberg-Wetter

Word battle, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz

Line, light and shadow, art gluchowe, art association

Glauchau / Castle Fordglauchau

2018

Perceptions, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart

transcend, Ludorff Gallery, Düsseldorf

2017

UNIKAT XII, Spiegelberger Foundation, Hamburg

INFLUX, Ostendorff Gallery, Münster

Jeux d’eau, Galerie Supper, Baden-Baden

2016

Beyond the Palettes, Sezon Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

liqaˇ, Ludorff Gallery, Düsseldorf

EN VIE, art @ sanofi, Berlin

WAZZER, gallery of the Volksbank Weinheim

fluid, Duisburg Art Association

2015

OffYourColorChart, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt

Boiling point, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

delizia, Tristan Lorenz Gallery, Frankfurt

vitamin sea, Bad Dürkheim Art Association

2014

amour fou, Ludorff Gallery, Düsseldorf

embody, Falckenberg Unique Art Concepts, Hamburg

2013

urbanity, Kunstverein Ostliches Sauerland / Museum

House Hövener, Brilon

Painting, Kunstverein Lippe, Detmold Castle

mind spray, art association Heppenheim

2012

There is a magic in every beginning, Perm Art Residency, Perm, Russia

new works, Löwenpalais, Starke Foundation, Berlin

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2021

MISA, König Galerie, Berlin

New acquisitions spring 2021, Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf

überBAU - ideological landscapes, Liuba Gallery, Lübbenau

Art Karlsruhe Selection, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart

Contemporary Positions, ARTES Berlin

IV International Mini Print Cantabria, The Sea and

the Lighthouses, Santander, Spain

2020

MADE IN BERLIN, Ostendorff Gallery, Münster

III International Mini Print Cantabria, The Sea and the

Lighthouses, Santander, Spain

GARDEN PRESENT, Hamburg

2019

II International Mini Print Cantabria, Faro Cabo Mayor

Art Center, Santander, Spain

DIALOG, Galerie Tore Suessbier, Berlin

Capture the Street, Oberhessisches Museum, Giessen

2018

Layers of nature - Beyond the line, Sam Francis,

Shingo Francis and Christian Awe in dialogue,

Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Japan

26 Contemporary Artists, Enter Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

black | sea, 68projects, Berlin

BLACK & WHITE, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz

2017

Away From Home, Künstlerforum Bonn

49 Contemporary Artists, Enter Art Foundation, Berlin

SPLISHSPLASH, art space SCHAU FENSTER, Berlin

Best of Bild + Bildnis, Kunstverein Duisburg

2016

DEEP WATER, Galerie Wetterling, Stockholm

OPENING, Galerie Tore Suessbier, Berlin

STILL LOST, art space SCHAU FENSTER, Berlin

Abstract Attitudes, Galerie Christa Burger, Munich

35 years Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

Lithomania, art space SCHAU FENSTER, Berlin

30 years - 30 artists, Kunstförderverein Weinheim

2015

GERMAN COOL, Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, V.A.E.

paper works II, TS art projects, Berlin

B [e] 52 !, 52 Masterworks, Kunsthaus Maximilian, Munich