MARTIN ASSIG Born 1959, Germany
Installation view at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
St. Paul #181 - Alles noch vor mir - Everything still ahead of me Ink, pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 â‚Ź 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #101 - It’s easier with drawings, because both writing and drawing are Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #599 Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2014 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #421 - Es hat bis heute gedauert - It lasted until today Tempera & wax on paper 60 x 46 cm 2013 â‚Ź 5.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
Martin Assig translates his inner most universe of thoughts and feelings into compositions of abstract organic renderings and patterns or images circling around the human body, both often full of colour. Usually Assig combines his drawings with words and sentences that comment, reinforce or expand the meaning of the visual message. The German artist’s subject matters are at times light-hearted, at times heavily charged. Themes of love and loss, life and death, human pain, existential search and redemption run as common threads through his oeuvre - all states of mind and emotion that are very much felt today. Drawing after drawing evolves out of a patient working process plunging the viewer into an inner narrative blending psychological insight and wonder, similar to illuminated manuscripts or book illustrations. Assig works with a variety of media like ink, gouache and most frequently with pastel. He always completes his drawings with a layer of wax, which, like skin, make his images more sensuous and sensitive.
Installation view at Art Brussels 2019
St. Paul #721 - Du bist mein Spiegel - You are my mirror Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2015 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #63 - Ich konnte nichts mehr sagen - I could not say anything more Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2010 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #80 - Die Hoffnung (zwei) - Hope (two) Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2010 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #276 - Unverständnis - Incomprehension Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #870 - Weil ich Mensch bin/Weil ich geboren wurde - Because I am human/Because I was born Tempera & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2018 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #743 - Wie lange tot? - How long dead? Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2016 Private Collection, Netherlands
St. Paul #33 - Ich mรถchte es nicht verstehen, eins - I prefer not to understand Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 Private Collection, Colombia
St. Paul #732 - Vergnügen (geistig) - Joy (mentally) Pastel and wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2016 Private Collection, Belgium
St. Paul #62 - Im Innersten – In the innermost Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2010 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #120 Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #373 - Der Liebhaber (4) - The Lover (4) Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2013 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #778 - Das ist nun mal so - It is how it is Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2016 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #634 - Tod/Verklärung - Death/Transfiguration Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2014 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #692 - dies berührte ihre Haut - It touched her skin Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2015 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
“Most recent drawings come from Assig’s most extensive series entitled St Paul, which Martin Assig began in 2009 as a tribute to the artist Paul Klee, whom he regards as an important inspiration, artistically as well as spiritually.�
St. Paul #233 - Müßiggang - Idleness Chalk, ink & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #330 - Erlösung - Salvation Coloured pencil & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2013 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #315 - Überhaupt kein Ende - No end at all Ink, pencil & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2013 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #590 Pastel & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2014 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #352 - Grosse Liebe - Great Love Watercolour & wax on paper 101.8 x 71.6 cm 2013 € 8.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #346 - Hilf mir hilf - Help me help Watercolour & wax on paper 101.8 x 71.6 cm 2013 € 8.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #559 Watercolour & wax on paper 101.8 x 71.6 2014 € 8.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
“In his drawings Assig creates intimate worlds touching and revealing the soul of human existence, a place where sensuality and spirituality meet and merge�
St. Paul #610 - Wieso denn nicht – Whyever not Tempera & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2014 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #645 - Excerpt from poem by Gertrude Kolmar Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2014 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #700 - Aura Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2015 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #826 - Gewissheit (1) - Certainty (1) Tempera & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2017 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #864 - Das Besondere - The Peculiar Watercolour & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2018 â‚Ź 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #141 - Die Antwort (sechs) - The Answer (six) Colour pencil & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
St. Paul #230 - Die Heimsuchung - The Visitation Chalk, ink & wax on paper 39.3 x 30.5 cm 2012 € 3.200,00 incl. VAT & frame
Permanent floor installation in an 11th Century Abbey Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg 2019
MARTIN ASSIG Born in 1959, Schwelm, Germany Lives and works in Berlin and Brädikow, Germany Education 1979–85
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
Solo Exhibitions 2019 2017 2016 2015 2014 2009 2006 2002 2001 2000 1999 1997 1996
1995 1994 1993 1992
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg Die Großen, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg Rascheln und Zukunft, Galerie Tanit, München insicht Eigenart, Diehl, Berlin Glückhaben, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Glückhaben. Zeichnungen der Werkgruppe St. Paul, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Die Wahrheit (eins), Holger Priess Galerie, Hamburg La presa / Die Beute, CAB – Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos; Mystères, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris Glück mit Tropfen, JablonkaGalerie, Cologne Erzählungen am Boden, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen Envoltura, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Zeichnungen, Hamburger Kunsthalle Honiggänsewiese, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn Zeichnungen, Brecht-Haus Weißensee, Berlin Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent / Ghent Saarlandmuseum, Saarbrücken Kunsthalle zu Kiel Martin Assig – Mark Lammert, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg Krefelder Kunstverein Bildtafeln, Zeichnungen, Objekte, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis, Akademie der Künste, Berlin Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau Zeichnungen, DAAD-Galerie, Berlin
Group Exhibitions 2018 2017 2016 2013 2012
2010 2005
Gute Bekannte, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London Kollwitz neu denken, Käthe-Kollwitz-Preisträger der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne Vermißt – Der Turm der blauen Pferde, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin Me in a no-time state, Kolumba, Cologne Sammlung Marx, Muzeum Narodowe, Wroclaw Zeichnungsräume – Postitionen zeitgenössischer Grafik, Hamburger Kunsthalle Old School, Kunsthalle zu Kiel I am a Berliner, Tel Aviv Museum of Art – The Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art Aus Passion. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf Wir sind Orient – Zeitgenössische Arabesken, MARTa Herford Symbolismus und die Kunst der Gegenwart, Van der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (my private) Heros, MARTa Herford