Christian Awe
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.
Ausstellungen
Messen
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