Christian Jankowski

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German contemporary multimedia artist who largely works with video, installation and photography. Jankowski's work has been associated with New Gothic Art and compared with artists like Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gillian Wearing, and Pierre Huyghe. Using various media formats, the collaborative nature of his practice is paramount as each participant unwittingly contributes his or her own texture to the work. The Hunt (1992), a performance video piece, is one of the artists earliest works. For one week the artist visited supermarkets and rather than select his goods as customary, he‘ hunted down’ his groceries, shooting each item with a children’s bow and arrow, accompanied by a friend with a video camera. The artist participated in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and in the 48th Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Berlin and New York. Link to Wikipedia biography