Backlit, 2017

Marko Fenske  

Artist Statement:

Painting come to me in my younger years as an expression for life and as a possibility to transform experiences in a language of color and energy. I love to paint outside "en plein air" and to be in contact with the living nature.
Since 2012 I work geomantically in the landscape and take nature as a whole being. No postcards of the landscape, but the landscape behind the landscape.
The landscape, the plants and the trees are living beings with their very own tasks in this world. In my
landscapes I do not try to depict a landscape as photorealistic as possible, because then I would rather take pictures or film, but to convey the deeper living reality of the landscape and thus convey a freedom in the contemplation.
In the background for me in our digital world today is the awareness of nature and landscape to strengthen and to anchor again in our society. Plein Air painting as a direct communication with nature, its vitality and its importance.
Give back to nature in our society its sacred and protective state.

Due to technical problems, I have to note, that all my paintings are NOT shipping free to the USA and UK.
Depending on the size and the address the shipping price varies between $85,– and $150,–

Education:

1987 -90 Student of the painter Johannes Bermell
1990-93 Apprenticeship Textile Design in Augsburg
1993-99 Studies in 2D- and Videodesign at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
1996-97 Studies in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti "Aldo Galli" in Como (Italy) by Giuliano Collina
2000 Master Student by Professor Max Görner at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee

Awards & Distinctions:

2000 Interdisciplinary Master Student Scholarship
2001 Prize of Gerstetter Wirtschaft
2002 Nomination Annual Ballettanz for the Videodesign for the ballett "esc impossible"
2003 Lukas-Cranach-Prize
2004 State-aided Atelier Loft by Senat Berlin

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions and Group Shows in Germany, Italy. Holland, Ireland, Switzerland and Lithuania.

Professional/Teaching Experience:

Different Teachng Experiences with Groups and Solo Pupils.

Founder of the german Plein Air Festival in 2014: Pleinair Berlin Brandenburg

Festivals and Study Trips (Selection):
2018 Katwijk „en plein air“, Holland
2017 Dublin Plein Air, Ireland
2014 - 2018 Pleinair Berlin Brandenburg, Germany
2015/2013 Art in the Open, Wexford. Ireland
2014 Plein Air „Picturegarden“ Bitenai, Lithuania
2014 Plein Air Matera, Italy
2012 Katwijk „en plein air“, Holland
2011 Plein Air Serravalle, Italy
2009 Invited Artist Residence in Collioure, France
2008/2007 Plein Air Assisi, Italy

2001 Publication “System Beuys - Transport of the past in the future", Publisher: documenta naturae

Artistic Influences:

Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Andre Krigar, Joseph Beuys, Bill Viola