Christian Jankowski

Born 1968 in Göttingen, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany 


Selected solo exhibitions

2025
Christian Jankowski: WEDDING GIFT, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2023
Christian Jankowski: Antikstübchen Nachwort II, Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel, Switzerland
Christian Jankowski: Neue Malerei – Cultural Cubism, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

2022
I was told to go with the flow, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Stuttgart, Germany 

2021
‘Living in a Sculpture’ TinyBE, Metzlerpark, Frankfurt, Germany
Defense Mechanism, Goethe Institute Bucharest, Romania
Plastic Surgery, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

2020
Healing games, Suprainfinit Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Sender and Receiver, Fluentum, Berlin, Germany
“Weather Flag”, joségarcía, mx, Mérida, Mexiko

2019
Where do we go from here?, Galeria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy 

2018
Who said art about other art is boring?, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

2017
Christian Jankoswki, Galeria Hit, Bratislava, Slovakia
Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

2016
The Legend of the Artist and other Construction Sites, Haus am Lützoplatz, Berlin, Germany
Christian Jankoswki: Retrospektive, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Christian Jankoswki: Arbeitsstipendium, Goethe Institute Yenicarsi, Tarabya, Istanbul, Turkey

2015
Christian Jankowski: Überbelieferte Kunstgeschichte, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Heavy Weight History, curated by Susanne Meyer-Büser, K21 Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 
No-profit, Base / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy
Christian Jankowski, Haus am Lützoplatz, Berlin, Germany
Casting Jesus, Katholische Akademie Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany
Kunstturnen (One Leg Human Flag), Soho House, Istanbul, Turkey; Soho House, Berlin, Germany
Take That, International Foundation Manifesta, Amsterdam Art Weekend, Netherlands
Überbelieferte Art History, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2014
Heavy Weight History, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israal; Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Orientacion, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
Wasser, Käse, Feuer: Christian Jankowski, 25 Editionen und ein anonymes Original. Helga Maria Klosterfelder Edition, Berlin, Germany
Christian Jankowswki: Casting Jesus, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Christian Jankowski’s Survey, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
Magic Numbers, La Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, Bologna, Italy

2013
Christian Jankoswki, Heitland Foundation Price, Celle, Spain
Heavy Weight History, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw Poland
Tableau vivant, Grieder Contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland
The Eye of Dubai, The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai; Nationalmuseum Stettin, Stettin, Poland
Art thou gone, beloved ghost? 4th edition of the Narracje Festival, Gdansk, Poland
Casting Jesus, Paderborner Kapuzinerkirche, Germany
Art Lover’s Club (Visita Studio), Studio Christian Jankowski, Berlin, Germany
The Eye of Dubai, Der Wille des Kurators, Videonale Bonn / Preis der KfW Stiftung

2013
Christian Jankowski, LVR Landes Museum Bonn, Germany

2012
Llorando por la marcha de la humanidad, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Christian Jankowswki: Casting Jesus, Brenzkirche Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
Discourse News, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Monument to the Bourgeois Working Class, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

2011
Casting Jesus, Lisson Gallery, London UK; Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico; Complesso Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy
The Finest Art on Water, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK

2010
Staatsgeschenke, Editiongalerie Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
The Perfect Gallery, Pump House Gallery, London, UK; Cube Gallery, Manchester, UK
What Remains, Void, Derry, Ireland
Tableau Vivant TV, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Strip the Auctioneer, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Was ich noch zu erledigen habe, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunst und Krise, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Jeck We Can, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
Open Studio, 100 Years Villa Massimo, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy

2009
Living Sculptures, Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany
Angel of Revenge, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
Now for something completely different, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Living Sculptures: Cesar, Dali Woman, El Che, Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA
Above All I’m an Art Lover, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Blinddate with 1516 Singles, Temporaere Kunsthalleb Berlin, Germany
When I was a Cuisillo, Oficina para Proyectos de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico 
Actors and Extras, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
The Matrix Effect, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
Extended, Sammlung Landesbank Baden, Wurttemberg, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
15 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg – Golden den Strich, Wolfsburg, Germany

2008
Dienstbesprechung, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Angels of Revenge, Sue Cockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Kunstmarkt TV, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Welcome Home, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
And Your Bird Can Sing, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany

2007
Super Classical, Maccarone Inc., New York, USA
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction I. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Magic Circle, Hedge House, Wijlre, Netherlands
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction II, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
Living Sculptures: The Real Fiction III, Regents Park, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
3 Scary Movies, Filmgalerie der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, Germany

2006
Everything Fell Together, Foundation for Art & Creative Technology, Liverpool, UK
Christian Jankowski, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
The Frankenstein Set, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Us and Them, The Kitchen, New York, USA

2005
A Life That Changes Your Week, Para-site, Hong Kong, China
Oops!… I did it again, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
Everything Fell Together, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA; List Center for the Arts, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Say it Together, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA; MC Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Hollywoodschnee, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy

2004
Kunstmuseum, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Christian Jankowski: Juggling the Standards of Reality, Argosfestival, Auckland, NZ
Dedonderdagen, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
Oops!… I did it again, Videonale im Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
16mm Mystery, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
No One Better Than You, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Now Playing, Maccarone Inc., New York, USA

2003
The Real Fiction, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
The Day We Met, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea; Artistspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Christian Jankowski: Video Works, Bailey Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
Christian Jankowski, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Bravo Jankowski!, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
This I Played Tomorrow, MACRO, Rome, Italy
Puppet Conference, Carnegie-Museum, Project Room, Pittsburgh, USA

2002
Rosa, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada; Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
Christian Jankowski’s Targets, Washington University Gallery, St. Louis, USA
Point of Sale, Maccarone Inc., New York, USA
The Holy Artwork, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Lehrauftrag, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

2001
Christian Jankowski, Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Commercial Landscape, Galleriea Gio Marconi, Milano, Italy

2000
Play, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
The Matrix Effect, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
Telekommunikation, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

1999
Videosalon, Videodrome, Copenhagen, Denmark
Paroles Sur Le Vif, Goethe Institut, Paris, France
Telemestica, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany

1998
Videosalon, H.M. Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
Let’s Get Physical/Digital, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Mein erstes Buch, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1997
Let’s Get Physical/Digital, Art Node, Stockholm, Swede
Galerie der Gegenwart Hamburgo, 2097, Statement art forum, Berlin, Germany

1996
Mein Leben als Taube, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

1994
Der sichere Ort, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg, Germany

1992
Die Jagd, Supermärkte, Friedensallee 12, Hamburg, Germany
Schamkasten (with F. Restle), Friedensallee 12, Hamburg, Germany

Selected group exhibitions 

2025
Walking in my Shoes, Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
Double Cheese Platter. Centenary of the Collection. Twenty Years of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2024
Making New Worlds Instead of Forgetting About It, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
To Invert and Be Inverted, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Love is Louder, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Patternmaker’s Maze, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Magic Donkey Inn, Longtermhandstand, Budapest, Hungary
More Than Once: 35 Years of Klosterfelde, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany
Le Nouveau Biedermeier, Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium

2022
Salón at LagoAlgo, Mexico city, Mexico 
Form Follows Energy, OMR, Mexico city, Mexico 

2021
NICC Expo Ticker Tape, Antwerp & Brussels, Belgium 
tinyBE living in a sculpture, Metzlerpark, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 
Stars Down to Earth, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
5 Artists 5 Walls, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland

2020
Elvis And Wein & Mozart, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Special Feature, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
„Sender and Receiver“, Bangkok Art Biennal, Bangkok, Thailand

2017
Jed Martin, The Map Is More Interesting Than the Territory, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Transaktionen: Über den Wert künstlerischer Arbeit, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Tower of Blue Horses, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Autogestion, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

2016
Exhibitions Are The Best Excuses: Jose Davila, Gonzalo Lebrija, Fernando Palomar, Eduardo Sarabia, Christian Jankowski, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Shame: 100 Reasons to be Red, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
Unexpectedly: The Art of Chance, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Horst & Maria, House of Wisdom, Istanbul, Turkey
Wall to Wall Carpets: Carpets by Artists, MOCA, Cleveland, OH, USA
Performer/Audience/Mirror, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Think Outside the Box, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Social Contract, Izolyatsiz Platform for Cultural Initiatives, Kyiv, Ukraine
TeleGen Art and Television, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz, Lichtenstein
Mirror, mirror…self portraits in Northern Germany 1892 to today, Kunsthaus Stade, Germany
Autogestion, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Way Man, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Momentary Monuments, Migrosmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
Obsession Dada, The Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland

2015
The Wish to Believe, Mataro Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain 
Spirit your mind, Free Spirits Sports Café, Miami, USA
Freedom Myths, Cinemateque Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Trends, Gogol House, Moscow, Russia
Moment!, Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Tele-Gen, The Language of Television in the Mirror of Art, 1964-2015, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
When I Give, I Give Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hunters and Collectors in Contemporary Art, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
A Man Walks into a Bar, me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

2014
Things we discover alone (Independent Learning), Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Dance Me, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Real Emotions: Thinking in Film, Kunst-Werke institute, Berlin, Germany
GOLA: Art and Science of Taste, Foundation la Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Lucky: From the Piggy Bank to Life on Credit, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland

2013
The Financial Report, Artspace Visual Arts Center, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia
The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Public Diary, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
About stupidity, The Petach Tivka Museum of Art, Petach Tivka, Israel
Analogital, Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, USA
1st Montevideo Biennial, Montevideo, Uruguay

2012
Utopie Gesamkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Im Raum des Betrachters, Piankothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Move, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Wo wir unds finden, Kunst und Kulturfestival Regionale 12, Dorfmuseum, Krakaudorf, Germany
Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

2011
Eating art, Fundacio Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Move: Choreographing You, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Playing the City 3, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
The Global Contemporary, ZKM Karlruhe, Karlruhe, Germany
Berlin 2000-2009, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

2010
Trickster Makes this World, Nam June Paik Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Are you ready for TV?, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Who is your audience?, Galleria Astuni, Public Studio, Bologna, Italy
Taipei Biennale 2010, Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan 
The Beauty of Distance, 17th Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Move Choreographing You, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK 

2009
The Magic Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
The Studio Sessions, SF MoMa, San Francisco, USA
Actors & Extras, Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium

2008
Farewell to Post-Colonialism, the third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
God & Goods, Spiritualita e Confusione di Massa, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
The Castle. The Collection, Castello di Rivoli Museo D’Arte, San Francisco, USA

2006
Prophets of Deceit, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
A short history of performance, Whitechapel, London, UK

2004
The Real Fiction, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

2003
Dramensatz, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

1999
Plateau of Humankind, 48th Venice Biennale, Italy

1997
L’Autre, 4e Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France