BIOGRAPHY
Born 1968 in Göttingen, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin and New York.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Welcome Home, Klosterfelde, Berlin.
And Your Bird Can Sing, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin.
Angels of Revenge, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
Dienstbesprechung, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart.
2007
Super Classical, Maccarone Inc., New York.
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction I, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Magic Circle, Hedge House, Wijlre.
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction II, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona.
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction III, Regents Park, Frieze Art Fair, London.
Project Room – Miami Art Museum, Miami.
3 Scary Movies, Filmgalerie der Filmakademie Baden–Württemberg, Ludwigsburg.
2006
Everything Fell Together, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool.
Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.
The Frankenstein Set, Lisson Gallery, London.
Us and Them, The Kitchen, New York.
2005
A Life That Changes Your Week, Para-site, Hong Kong.
Oops!...I did it again, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela.
Everything Fell Together, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; List Center for the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
Say It Together, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Say It Together, MC Gallery, Los Angeles.
Hollywoodschnee, Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano.
2004
Kunstmuseum, Kunstverein Göttingen.
The Day We Met, Public Art Fund, New York.
Christian Jankowski: Juggling the Standards of Reality, Argosfestival ’dedonderdagen’, deSingel, Antwerp.
Oops!...I did it again, Videonale im Kunstmuseum Bonn. (cat.)
16mm Mystery, Klosterfelde, Berlin.
No One Better Than You, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dösseldorf.
Now Playing, Maccarone Inc., New York.
2003
The Real Fiction, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona.
The Day We Met, Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Artistspace, Auckland.
Christian Jankowski: Video Works, Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto.
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. (cat.)
Bravo Jankowski!, Lisson Gallery, London.
This I Played Tomorrow, MACRO, Roma. (cat.)
Puppet Conference, Carnegie-Museum, Project Room, Pittsburgh.
2002
Rosa, Mercer Union, Toronto.
Christian Jankowski’s Targets, Washington University Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA
Rosa, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz.
Point of Sale, Maccarone Inc., New York.
The Holy Artwork, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen.
Lehrauftrag, Klosterfelde, Berlin. (cat.)
2001
Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art, New York.
Commercial Landscape, Galleria Giò Marconi, Milano.
2000
Play, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam. (cat.)
The Matrix Effect, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.
Telekommunikation, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (together with Franz West).
1999
Videosalon, Videodrome, Kopenhagen.
Paroles Sur Le Vif, Goethe Institut, Paris.
Telemistica, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.
1998
Videosalon, H.M. Klosterfelde, Hamburg.
Let’s Get Physical/Digital, Klosterfelde, Berlin.
Mein erstes Buch, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M. (cat.)
1997
Let’s Get Physical/Digital, Art Node, Stockholm. (cat.)
Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburg, 2097, Statement art forum, Berlin.
1996
Mein Leben als Taube, Klosterfelde, Berlin.
1994
Der sichere Ort, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg.
1992
Die Jagd, Supermärkte/Friedensallee 12, Hamburg.
Schamkasten (in cooperation with F. Restle), Friedensallee 12, Hamburg.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008
Puppet Show, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia.
Rehab, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
Trust in Me, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute.
Exact Imagination, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus.
This Show Needs You, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose.
God and Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo.
Paradies und zurück, Sammlung Rheingold in Schloss Dyck, Jüchen.
Hamsterwheel, Malmoe Konsthall, Malmoe.
L’Impresa dell’Arte, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Napoli.
Play It – Kunst und Spiel, Messe Killesberg, Stuttgart.
American Idyll – Contemporary Art and Karaoke, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.
The End Was Yesterday II, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck.
Leinzell Open, Silvia und Helmut Wickleder–Stiftung, Schloss Leinzell, Leinzell.
Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington.
Deep Comedy, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Checkpoint Berlin, Villa du Parc – Centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse.
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou.
2007
Sensorium,List Center for the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, USA.
Reality Bites, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; traveled to Stiftung Opelville – Zentrum für Kunst, Rösselsheim.
Stand By: TV,Mediateca – Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona.
Deep Comedy, Ballroom Marfa.
The Screen Eye or the New Image, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg.
Jugend und Musik, Kunstmuseum der Stadt Ratingen.
Auto Emotion, The Power Plant, Toronto.
Geografie..., Via Nuova Gallery, Firenze.
O Banquete, Agencia Vera Cortes, Lisboa.
The Price of Everything...Perspectives on the Art Market, Whitney Independent Study Program, Cuny Graduate Center, New York.
Hunter and Gatherer, Ferenbalm–Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe.
KunstFilmBiennale, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul.
Hamsterwheel – Video Box, Tesa Bella Novissima, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice.
Ginnungagap / Pavilion of Belief, Calle Schiavona, Venice.
Destroy, She Said, Julia Stoschek Collection, D&umml;sseldorf.
Scheitern, Landesgalerie Linz.
Scanners New Media Festival, Lincoln Center, New York.
Performa – New Visual Art Performance, New York.
True Romance – Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; traveled to Villa Stuck, Munich, and Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel.
2006
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica.
40jahrevideokunst.de. – Update06, Lenbachhaus, Munich.
The Sublime is Now, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf.
A Short History of Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Welcome to the Limelight, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale–on–Hudson, New York.
Action, FRAC Provence–Alpes–Cote d’Azur.
Full House: Views of the Whitney at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Music and Art, COMA – Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin..
Photo–Trafic, BAC-Batiment d’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Phantom, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen.
Prophets of Deceit, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco.
Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz.
Highlights from the KunstFilmBiennale Köln in Berlin, KunstWerke, Berlin.
Faster! Bigger! Better!, Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe.
Models for a Fictional Academy, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Pearl River City, Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden; traveled to Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Vilnius.
2005
Christian Jankowski, Julian Dashper, Yuk King Tan, Boyd Webb, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.
Situation Comedy: Humour in Recent Art, Independent Curators International, New York; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg.
Central Station, Maison Rouge (Collection Falckenberg), Paris.
Getting Emotional, ICA Boston, Massachusetts.
Homage to the Square, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna.
Fair Use, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.
Generation X, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
Sommerfrische: Künstlervideos mit Esprit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Nuove Acquisizioni, MACRO Rome.
Greater New York, PS1 Contemporary Arts Center.
Paisatges Mediatics, Sala Girona de la Fundació "La Caixa", Girona.
Spielräume, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg. (cat.)
Mais qu’ est–ce que tu fluxes?, Frac Nord – Pas de Calais, Dunkerque.
Zur Kasse, bitte!, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen.
Feeling Strangely Fine, Galeria Estrany–de la Mota, Barcelona.
Akademie. Kunst lehren und lernen., Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg.
2004
100 Artists See God, ICA, London.
Tainment. Spielformen der Bewusstseinsindustrie, NGBK, Berlin. (cat.)
Hors d–oeuvre : ordre et désordres de la nourriture, capc Musée d–art contemporain, Bordeaux. (cat.)
Situations Construites, attitudes, Geneve.
The Pattern Playback, The Moore Space, Miami.
Spectacle, Pleasure Principle or the Carnivalesque?, Shedhalle, Zurich.
Paisatges Mediàtics, Fundación "la Caixa", Barcelona.
Ètrangement proche ’ Seltsam vertraut, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken.
Depicting Love, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin.
Fenster zum Hof, NGBK, Berlin.
Christian Jankowski / Piero Golia / Gianni Motti, Cosmic Galerie, Paris.
Flirts. Art and Advertising, Museion, Bolzano.
Infiltrate, Substation, Singapore.
Prêts à prêter 2, frac paca, Marseille.
Like Beads on an Abacus Designed to Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London.
Fade in ’ New Film And Video, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
Arquitectura Efimera, MUSAC, Madrid.
Treasure Island, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
The Game Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York.
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London. (cat.)
The Last Laugh: Humour in Contemporary Video Art, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
Glück, ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar.
Art + Industry, Christchurch Biennial, Christchurch.