Christian Jankowski

Christian Jankowski is the kind of contemporary artist I genuinely want to spend an afternoon with. Working across video, installation, photography, printmaking, and even television production, he refuses to sit in one lane, and that restlessness reads as curiosity rather than gimmickry. Splitting his life between Berlin and New York, he seems to treat the whole media landscape as raw material. What appeals to me is the wit I sense beneath the conceptual framing; the best of this kind of work makes you laugh first and think second. I would trust him to disarm a skeptic, and I count myself among those worth disarming.

Name (English)

Christian Jankowski

Name (Japanese)

クリスチャン・ヤンコフスキー

Reading

くりすちゃん・やんこふすきー

Born

January 1, 1968 (age 58)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Monkey

Origin

Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Occupation

artist / university teacher / printmaker / television producer / multimedia artist

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC

Tags

• Lower Saxony
• artist
• university teacher
• printmaker

Last updated

2026-06-02

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