To describe him as an Upcoming Artist, could pass for the understatement of the year. For although the wider art audience is still largely an unknown, Christian Jankowski for years is appreciated by insiders. This is evidenced especially the growing attention that he has taken in the art world. In 1999 he was first noticed at the Venice Biennale. Several solo shows - such as in the Kunsthalle in Vienna and in the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, U.S. First time in 2005 he appeared in the Top-100 ranking of Art-Report, where he has since can claim more or less.In 2009 he is even rising ranked 29th So he is certainly no stranger, but rather an artist-artist, so-called because they are mainly highly rated by colleagues, less by the art market or auctioneers.
Above all, the sly humor that runs through almost all his projects and installations, experts estimate. He is regarded as subversive art humorist, who candidly infiltrates in the entertainment industry and art industry in order to then scrutinize thoroughly the role of arts, politics, entertainment and global marketing strategies, the Bawag Foundation, Vienna, stated on the occasion of the solo exhibition in the spring of 2009. "The notoriously media-speak, and Kunstprovokateur screened the operation," continued Bawag, "calling him to himself. He continued looking behind cliche, kitsch and the Convention on the authentic expression, the right thing in the wrong person, with the risk of total Selbstüberforderung, ridicule and failure”
The network Jankowski could hardly be better: His works are prominently represented in many important collections including the Tate Britain in London, the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, or the collection of Falkenberg in Hamburg. He is represented by influential galleries such as maccarone in New York, Lisson Gallery in London, Klosterfelde in Berlin, Gio Marconi in Milan or Mayer Kainer in Vienna.
