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Christian Jankowski

クリスチャン・ヤンコフスキー　/　くりすちゃん・やんこふすきー

Artist from Germany

January 1, 1968 (age 58)　・　Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany

Lower Saxony
artist
university teacher
printmaker

My Take

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.

Overview

Christian Jankowski (born 1968 in Göttingen, West Germany) is a German contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography. He lives and works in Berlin and New York.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

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
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: artist / university teacher / printmaker / television producer / multimedia artist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

3. Relationships

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Children: Private
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4. Personality

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6. Links

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

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