Christian Jankowski

Jankowski's work has been associated with New Gothic ArtGavin, Francesca. Hell Bound: New Gothic Art. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2008. and compared with artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gillian Wearing,Roberta Smith (January 4, 2002), [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/arts/art-in-review-christian-jankowski.html ART IN REVIEW; Christian Jankowski] The New York Times. and Pierre Huyghe.Roberta Smith (April 9, 2004), [https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/09/arts/art-in-review-christian-jankowski-now-playing.html ART IN REVIEW; Christian Jankowski -- 'Now Playing'] The New York Times. 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.[http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/christian-jankowski-casting-jesus Christian Jankowski: Casting Jesus 7 September – 1 October 2011] Lisson Gallery, London

The Hunt (1992), a performance video piece, is one of the artists earliest works. For one week the artist visited supermarkets and rather than select his goods as customary, he‘ hunted down’ his groceries, shooting each item with a children’s bow and arrow, accompanied by a friend with a video camera.[http://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/christian-jankowski Christian Jankowski: Bravo Jankowski! 17 September – 1 November 2003] Lisson Gallery, London For the 23-minute video Lycan Theorized (2006), Jankowski persuaded the cast and crew working in an actual straight-to-DVD werewolf movie (in which he had a bit part) to re-enact some of its most violent scenes while quoting the writings of various film theorists.Roberta Smith (December 1, 2006), [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/01/arts/art-in-review-christian-jankowski.html Art in Review; Christian Jankowski] The New York Times. The film Casting Jesus (2011) focuses on an audition to select an actor that best interprets the role of Jesus, judged by a jury of Vatican members.

Jankowski has also created a number of television interventions. His video installation Telemistica was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale, and shows five Italian television fortune-tellers responding to a phoned-in question about the artist's success or failure at the upcoming Biennale.Noemi Smolik, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_38/ai_59923253 Christian Jankowski], ArtForum, Feb, 2000. The Holy Artwork (2001) is a collaboration with a televangelist pastor from Texas.[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/jankowski-the-holy-artwork-t12910/text-summary Christian Jankowski, The Holy Artwork (2001)] Tate Modern, London. In Discourse News, Senior Business Anchor Annika Pergament reports on Jankowski's definition of art from her newscaster’s desk at NY1.[http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2012-06-21_christian-jankowski/ Christian Jankowski: Discourse News, June 21 - July 28, 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109214122/http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2012-06-21_christian-jankowski/ |date=January 9, 2014 }} Petzel Gallery, New York.

In 2007, he presented The living sculptures, a project curated by Ferran Barenblit. Barcelona’s popular boulevard Las Ramblas is lined with street performers who mimic bronze sculptures by standing motionless, covered in metallic paint from head to toe, for the amusement – and spare change – of thousands of tourists. From the many, Jankowski selected three: personifications of Che Guevara, Julius Caesar, and the female figure in Salvador Dalí’s Anthropomorphic Chest of Drawers. Then, with the help of a foundry, the artist produced life-size bronze casts of the three figures – along with their soapbox plinths – and placed them at the same spots where he originally encountered them.{{Cite web |date=2017-08-11 |title=Living Sculptures |url=https://christianjankowski.com/works/2007-2/living-sculptures/ |access-date=2022-11-08 |website=Christian Jankowski |language=en}} The sculptures were installed later in London (Regent's Park), New York (Central Park) and other locations around the world.

Jankowski's installation Strip the Auctioneer (2009) consists of sculpture, photographs and a video connected to a live auction that was orchestrated by the artist in May 2009. The action takes place at Christie's auction house in Amsterdam and incorporates the auctioneer, Amo Verkade, as the desired possession. Verkade bids his garment piece by piece down to his hammer. He strips himself of his suit, baring and transforming those parcels of clothing into objects of desire.[http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2010-03-04_christian-jankowski/ Christian Jankowski: March 4 - 27, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109213548/http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2010-03-04_christian-jankowski/ |date=2014-01-09 }} Petzel Gallery, New York.

Jankowski's videos, films, and installations have been exhibited internationally in places such as Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2015);{{Cite web|url=http://camstl.org/calendar/event/2015/05/01/summer-exhibitions-opening/|title = Summer Exhibitions Opening}} Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico (2012), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (2012), Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2009); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2008); Miami Art Museum, Miami (2007); List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts (2005); Artpace, San Antonio (2001); and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (2000). The artist participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial,{{Cite web |url=http://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/artists.html |title=Whitney Biennial website |access-date=2008-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720161259/http://www.whitney.org/2002biennial/artists.html |archive-date=2008-07-20 |url-status=dead }} the 48th Venice Biennale, and the XVI Cuenca Biennale,{{Cite web |last=bienal |date=2022-12-12 |title=Selección de artistas para la XVI edición Bienal de Cuenca |url=https://blog.bienaldecuenca.org/index.php/2022/12/12/seleccion-de-artistas-para-la-16-edicion-bienal-de-cuenca/ |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Blog Bienal de Cuenca |language=es}} in Ecuador.

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• The Hunt (1992){{cite web | url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix76lfiUVU4 | title=Christian Jankowski (*1968), die Jagd, 1992/1997 | website=YouTube }}
• My Life as a Dove (1996)
• Let's get physical/digital (1997–1998)
• Telemistica (1999)
• The Holy Artwork (2001), held in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London.[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=6880&page=1 tate.org.uk]
• Point of Sale (2002), held in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.[http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/permanent-collection/artists/jankowski/ icaboston.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516004320/http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/permanent-collection/artists/jankowski/ |date=May 16, 2008 }}
• What I Still Have to Take Care of (2008) permanent neon installation in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Tableaux Vivant TV (2010), produced for the Biennale of Sydney
• The Finest Art on Water (2011), first on show at Frieze Art Fair"[https://archive.today/20130421032104/http://www.phaidon.co.uk/agenda/art/articles/2011/october/10/my-other-caravaggio-s-a-yacht/ My other Caravaggio’s a yacht]." Phaidon.com, October 2011.
• Casting Jesus (2011)
• What I still have to take care of? permanent work, public art collection of Geneva; The Neon Parallax project (2008)

In an interview with Phaidon Press ahead of Frieze Art Fair in October 2011 Jankowski said of his new work, 'The Finest Art on Water' "I’m not saying it’s the best investment ever. History will show! If you can afford it and you’ve already spent 65 million then if you spend 75, there’s a chance that this vessel will have a higher value in the future. My artistic career, the next works that I will do, will inform the price of this thing.”

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• [https://christianjankowski.com Official website of artist]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051028210516/http://www.klosterfelde.de/sites/artists/jankow/ar_f.html Klosterfelde.de] a description of the artist and his work
• [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/wohnseifer_johannes.html Christian Jankowski on Artcyclopedia]
• [http://www.lissongallery.com/#/artists/christian-jankowski/ Lisson Gallery]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060506234003/http://www.postmedia.net/01/jankowski.htm postmedia.net]
• [https://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2006/01/23/everything_fell_together_feature.shtml BBC interview]
• [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_7_42/ai_n6005414 ArtForum review]
• [http://www.ville-ge.ch/culture/neons/index.html the Neon Parallax project], «What I still have to take care of» a neon installation by C. Jankowski, 2007
• [https://archive.today/20130213041329/http://www.calcego.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=235:flock&catid=108&Itemid=53&lang=en Text by Agustín Pérez Rubio about the work "Flock" by Jankowski]

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