NEWS: Exhibitions/ Publications/ Projects
A GRAMMAR OF GESTURES
Exhibition at Kourd Gallery, Athens November 2021-February 2022
145 x 120 cm
(57 ³/₃₂ x 47 ¹/₄ in.)
Acrylic and sand on transparent silk
STIPENDIUM: Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.
Neustart für Bildende Künstlerinnen und Künstler
Awarded stipend for documentation of drawing archive of 1500 recent works on paper for documentation. These works will be integrated into new monograph for 2022.
A SENSE OF POSSIBILITY
Michael Markwick (USA) + Robert Muntean (AT)
GALERIE BORN, Born a. Darss, Germany
20. März – 2. Mai 2021
Eröffnungstag: Samstag, 20. März, 11 – 17 Uhr
Südstr. 22, 18375 Born a. Darss
“Michael Markwick has always taken the natural environment as a starting point for his paintings. It is his main motif, yet he has never been a traditional landscape painter in the sense of depicting a view with trees, hills, or a lake as we would see it from a window. Rather, nature is for him a driving force and a source of energy he wants to connect to. It makes him want to paint. It is the sun’s radiance or the sound of the wind sweeping through the trees that ignites a painting. For Markwick, nature is a place to find life in its fullness and diversity, ranging from coldness and cruelty to refined beauty and spirituality.“
-Jurriaan Benschop
160 x 120 cm (63 x 47 1/4 in.)
Acrylic and sand on silk and canvas
Exhibitionisms
Tiger Strikes Asteroid – Chicago
Nov 7–Jan 16, 2021
Online Opening: Saturday, November 7, 4pm–7pm
Online Program: Saturday, November 21, 4pm-7pm
Closing Event: Sunday, December 13, time TBD
80 x 65 cm (31.5 x 25 19/32 in.)
Acrylic on Silk
[email protected]: Journal of European Literature, Culture and the Environment
The painting, Swimmer has been featured in the Tenth year anniversary issue of [email protected] the Journal of European Literature, Culture and the Environment. Vol 11 No 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond.
“A more immersive and phenomenological experience of the environment and its materiality is instead the subject of the work of our second contributor, Michael Markwick. One of Markwick’s dramatic paintings was on the cover of the issue of [email protected] to “Green Countercultures” (2013). Here, he contributes instead with a large-scale 2019 work entitled “Swimmer,” in which an abstracted skeletal figure in the upper left of the canvas is caught in a tidal wave of bright blue water and debris. As the Art editor at the time, Isabel Hoving, suggested for the 2013 work, this new painting too offers a full immersion into the environment’s overwhelming forces and, consequently, a representation of our own fragility in the nonhuman world”
– Damiano Benvegnù
Einladung zum Artist Talk: MICHAEL MARKWICK – Sunshine for a Long Midnight, Samstag, 22. August 2020, GALERIE BORN, Berlin
We would like to invite you to a walk-through tour of the exhibition Michael Markwick: Sunshine for a Long Midnight, on Saturday, August 22, at GALERIE BORN, Berlin. The artist will be speaking about his new works on silk, his painting techniques, and the ideas about fragility that permeate his work. Questions will be welcomed.
Michael Markwick: Sunshine for a Long Midnight
11. Juni – 5. September 2020
The paintings in this exhibition were made during the fall of 2019 through the spring of 2020. When I began working on these paintings, I was thinking of our relationship to nature, and our age of fragility. Nevertheless, this exhibition is taking place now, and the Covid19 pandemic has filled our minds. The work in this exhibition resonates with this moment of crisis…
Soft-Opening: Mittwoch, 10. Juni, 12 – 18 Uhr
GALERIE BORN, Berlin
Potsdamer Str. 58, 10785 Berlin
Di – Sa 11 – 18 Uhr
T +49 (0) 30 / 749 20 270,
140 x 120 cm (55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in.)
Acrylic on silk
Postponed to Season 2021 due to Covd19
Mai 9/2020 – A SENSE OF POSSIBILITY @ GALERIE BORN, Born a. Darss
Michael Markwick (USA) + Robert Muntean (A) special guest: Lucy Teasdale (GB) – Skulptur
Mai 9 – 28. Juni 2020d
Eröffnung: Samstag, 9. Mai, 18 Uhr
GALERIE BORN, Darss
Südstr. 22, 18375 Born/Darss, T +49 (0) 38 234 / 674 804, Di – Sa 11 – 17
140 x 120 cm (55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in.)
Acrylic on silk
2019 Martin von Wagner Museum collection
The work, Still…life (after Gijsbrechts), 2018, has been acquired by the collection of the Martin von Wagner museum to join the 1662 still life by Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts.
2018 Exhibition:
SERIOUS PLAY
Galerie Born, Berlin
LUCY TEASDALE, MICHAEL MARKWICK
April – 2. Juni 2018
Skulptur und Malerei
Eröffnung: Do, 19. April, 18 – 21 Uhr
geöffnet: Di bis Sa 12 – 18 Uhr
Galerie Born
Potsdamer Straße 58, 10785 Berlin
Re: Imagining Europe
13 September–2 December 2017
Opening: 12 September, 19:00
Exhibition in Box Freiraum, Berlin
This exhibition shows the rich imagination that can be found across the European continent. More
Nikos Aslanidis, Maria Capelo, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Milena Dragicevic, Bernard Frize, Luisa Kasalicky, Ida Lindgren, Mark Manders, Michael Markwick, Agnieszka Polska & Witek Orski, Monika Sosnowska, Tessa Verder
Curated by Jurriaan Benschop
BBK – Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler BBK
Award for documentation of drawing archive of 1500 recent works on paper for documentation.
2019 Long Loud Silence @ Galerie am POLYLOG
Artists: Robert Gfader, Michael Markwick, and Robert Muntean
Opening 24.5.2019 – 19:00 Uhr
May 24th – June 29th, 2019Wörgl, Austria
A new exhibition opens May 24th at the Contemporary Center for Art and Culture, Galerie am POLYLOG. The exhibition features the project Long Loud Silence, curated by Dr. Günther Moschig.
Location:
Galerie am POLYLOG
Speckbacherstr. 13-15
6300 Wörgl, Austria
2019 Artist Talk / April 5th 18:00
Martin Von Wagner Museum
April 5th, at 18:00
Location:
Südflügel Residenzplatz 2, Tor A
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 – 13:30
Alternating Sundays 10:00 – 13:30
2019 New Catalog:
Michael Markwick: New Songs to Learn and Sing
Texts; German and English with translations
Michael Markwick: Natur und Zeit; Prof. Dr. Damian Dombrowski, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg
Direktor der Neueren Abteilung
Of Bones and Light; Sophie Renninger, B.A.
Publisher: J.H. Röll Verlag
221 x 297 mm ( 8.7 x 11.7 in.)
Hardcover, full color, thread stitching
29 Full color illustrations of recent paintings and drawings
84 Pages
ISBN: 9783897545328
2019 Solo Exhibition:
Michael Markwick: New Songs to Learn and Sing
Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzberg, Germany 2018-2019
Dec 11, 2018 – April 14, 2019
A solo exhibition of the artists work, including work by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts
Of Bones and Light – Sophie Renninger
At first, it may come as a surprise that Michael Markwick’s canvases take several months, sometimes even up to a year, to complete. This element of surprise is fueled by a historically grown default assumption that surrounds abstract art Read more …
Damian Dombrowski -Michael Markwick: Natur und Zeit
Beim Wort ‚Naturereignis‘ denken wir rasch an Gewaltiges, Außerordentliches, oft auch Bedrohliches oder Erschütterndes – an eine Sonnenfinsternis vielleicht, an Erdbeben und Wirbelstürme oder an das Krachen, das einen abbrechenden Gletscher begleitet. Ein Naturereignis ist aber zunächst einmal nichts anders als Natur, die sich ereignet; das tut sie freilich immer, weil sie dauerhaft im Werden und Vergehen begriffen ist. Der Begriff umfasst also doch mehr, nämlich einen Betrachter, dem sie sich als Ereignis zeigt, und eine zeitliche Begrenzung dieses Sich-Ereignens. Ein Naturereignis ist vor allem Natur-Erscheinung, die das schauende Erleben im Vorübergang voraussetzt. Mehr Lezen
Residenzplatz 2, 97070 Würzburg
180 x 150 cm
Pigment, binder and mixed media on linen
2017 EXHIBITION
Parallel Vienna 2017
2017 Public Artist Talk: GOOD TO TALK
Sat 09.09.201711:30 – 12:30
Artists Michael Markwick and Tessa Verder in conversation with Jurriaan Benschop, curator, and Carolina Mojto, founder of BOX Freiraum, about their upcoming exhibition.
In “Re:Imagining Europe” 12 artists will offer a panorama of European imagination in times of migration, mobility, and political turbulence. For more information on the exhibition and BOX Freiraum, please visit www.box-freiraum.berlin/.
Gespräch / EN / Stage
2017 SOLO EXHIBITION
MICHAEL MARKWICK: New Paintings
26. Mai – 16. Juli 2017
Galerie Born /
PROJEKT RAUM H E I D D O R F
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2017, 14 Uhr
Live Musik: Conrad Bauer (tb)
19294 Neu Kaliß (Nähe Dömitz) 2
6.5. – 4.6.: täglich 13 –18 Uhr, 8.6. – 16.7.: Do bis So 13 – 18 Uhr