Christian Jankowski at Art Genève 2025
Renowned artist Christian Jankowski will make his debut at Art Genève 2025 with a captivating solo presentation. Given his extensive history of institutional exhibitions and art fair showcases, as well as his role as the curator of Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), we are excited to present a dynamic selection of both new and iconic works at the fair.

Unique in edition of 5, I;
After Franz Erhard Walther’s original drawing A4 paper, 1993
On the back of a paper bearing the letterhead of “Hochschule Der Bildenden Künste Hamburg”, artist and professor Franz Erhard Walther transcribed directions in blue ink to the Greek restaurant Taverna Omiros. He and his students planned to meet there to celebrate the annual end of school year exhibition. Arriving late that evening, after a little odyssey, student Christian Jankowski revisited the professor’s directions and corrected a street name in red ink. Given Jankowski’s current role as an artist and professor, the carpet serves as a fitting homage to the collaborative teacher-student relationship.

Self-portrait as a Bridge to the Land of Milk and Honey — Sophia, Paul-Gerhardt-Schule
Sculpture, lacquered brass, wooden pedestal, 85 x 55 x 30cm (without pedestal), 165 x 60 x 30cm (with pedestal)
Edition of 3, I
Christian Jankowski (born 1968 in Göttingen, West Germany) is a German contemporary multimedia artist known for his work in video, installation, and photography. He is currently based in Berlin and New York.
Jankowski’s work has been associated with New Gothic Art and compared with artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gillian Wearing, and Pierre Huyghe. Using various media formats, the collaborative nature of his practice is paramount as each participant unwittingly contributes his or her own texture to the work.
In 2007, Christian Jankowski presented The Living Sculptures, a project curated by Ferran Barenblit. On Barcelona’s famous Las Ramblas, where street performers pose as motionless, metallic-painted statues to entertain tourists, Jankowski selected three performers: representations of Che Guevara, Julius Caesar, and the female figure from Salvador Dalí’s Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers. Collaborating with a foundry, he created life-size bronze casts of the performers, complete with their soapbox plinths, and placed them back in their original locations. The sculptures were later exhibited in cities such as London (Regent’s Park), New York (Central Park), and other locations worldwide.
Jankowski’s 2009 installation, Strip the Auctioneer, combines sculpture, photography, and video documentation of a live auction staged by the artist in May 2009. The performance took place at Christie’s in Amsterdam, where auctioneer Amo Verkade became the subject of bidding. One by one, Verkade auctioned off pieces of his own attire—stripping himself down to his auctioneer’s hammer—turning his clothing into coveted objects and transforming the auction itself into an act of performance art.
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