*1963 in Neumarkt Sankt-Veit, Germany, lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin<\/p>\n\n
Franz Ackermann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at the\u00a0Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. In 1991 he received a DAAD scholarship\u00a0for a residency in Hong Kong. Since then Ackermann has been creating socalled\u00a0\u201cMental Maps\u201d, sketches of immediate experiences and city maps,\u00a0while travelling and still on location. In his studio, he produces large-format\u00a0pictures based on these sketches, which often lead to site-specific installations.
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\u201cPainting is one part (!) of my artistic action. It begins where it is necessary. The \u2018discourse\u2018 too easily overlooks and underestimates elementary concepts such as form, light, colour. I face this verbalization of seeing with the greatest scepticism. In this age, I consider working \u2018quasi\u2018 out of nowhere to be more topical than ever\u201d. (Franz Ackermann, kunstschau.netsamurai.de)<\/p>\n\n
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Photo \u00a9 Jens Ziehe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
*1963 in Neumarkt Sankt-Veit, Germany, lives in Karlsruhe and Berlin Franz Ackermann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at the\u00a0Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. In 1991 he received a DAAD scholarship\u00a0for a residency in Hong Kong. Since then Ackermann has been creating socalled\u00a0\u201cMental Maps\u201d, sketches of immediate experiences and city maps,\u00a0while travelling […]<\/p>\n