• Christian Awe

    dancing lines VII
    2021, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 130 x 200 cm
  • dancing lines VII
    2021, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 130 x 200 cm
  • Farbmeer XI
    2022, acrylic on paper, 65 x 50 cm
  • Farbmeer XX
    2022, acrylic on paper, 65 x 50 cm
  • primavera
    2022, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

  • ars viva
    2020, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 160 cm
  • vibes
    vibes, 2021 Acryl auf Leinwand 130 × 200 cm
  • find your way
    find your way, 2020 Acryl auf Leinwand 145 x 110 cm
  • Farbmeer VII
    Farbmeer VII, 2021 Acryl auf Papier 65 x 50cm
  • Farbmeer XII
    Farbmeer XII, 2021 Acryl auf Papier 65 x 50cm
  • Farbmeer XIII
    Farbmeer XIII, 2021 Acryl auf Papier 65 x 50cm
  • Farbmeer X
    Farbmeer X, 2021 Acryl auf Papier 65 x 50cm

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.

When I paint, it's like dancing around the canvas.

Christian Awe ©Photo, Studio Christian Awe; Quotation, Christian Awe

Exhibitions

Museum and single exhibitions (selection)

2022

Wasser Farbe, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn, Seebad Kühlungborn, Germany

2021
I, sea, Kunstverein Coburg

2020
HeartBeat, Kunsthalle Rostock
O‘ de vie, Kunstverein Hockenheim

2019
chusho, Anteroom, Kyoto, Japan
Wortgefecht, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz
Linie, Licht und Schatten, art gluchowe, Kunstverein
Glauchau / Schloss Forderglauchau

2017
UNIKAT XII, Spiegelberger Stiftung, Hamburg

2016
Beyond the Palettes, Sezon Art Gallery, Tokio, Japan
EN VIE, art@sanofi, Berlin
WAZZER, Galerie der Volksbank Weinheim
fluid, Kunstverein Duisburg

2015
OffYourColorChart, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
vitamin sea, Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim

2014
embody, Falckenberg Unique Art Concepts, Hamburg

2013
urbanity, Kunstverein Östliches Sauerland / Museum
Haus Hövener, Brilon
Malerei, Kunstverein Lippe, Schloss Detmold
mind spray, Kunstverein Heppenheim

2012
Jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, Perm Art Residency, Perm, Russland
new works, Löwenpalais, Stiftung Starke, Berlin