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until 07.05. | #4999ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from Saturday, 28. March 2026 the exhibition “Millesfleur” by the artist Christine Jackob-Marks.
Christine Jackob-Marks, whose work was most recently honored by Samuelis Baumgarte in the dialogue exhibition “KOSMOS” with Otto Piene in Bielefeld, has spent her entire artistic career exploring nature and the question of the truth that lies hidden behind the apparently visible. In her landscape paintings, nature becomes the source and mirror of human emotional spaces and existential questions. However, she also repeatedly addresses the traces of damage that humans inflict on their natural habitat.
Christine Jackob-Marks, Birthday Bouquet, 2005,
mixed media on canvas, 130 x 100 cm © feinartberlin
This duality of nature is further differentiated in Christine Jackob-Marks’ flower paintings, which the exhibition explores by looking at three different creative phases. The works from her late student days in the early 1960s and her current works are worlds apart, much like Bettina von Arnim’s statement that “flowers are nature’s thoughts of love” and Charles Baudelaire’s “Fleurs du Mal.” On the one hand, there is beauty and harmony; on the other, transience and seductiveness. The image of the flower, connecting the two, proves that in both worlds a kind of beauty is conceivable that exists only for its own sake. In light of three widely separated creative phases, Christine Jackob-Marks’ mille fleurs open up a panorama of what flowers can mean as an artistic theme.
Christine Jackob-Marks, Mixed Bouquet I, 2005,
mixed media on canvas, 180 x 160 cm © feinartberlin
During her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) between 1960 and 1964, the artist designed fabric and wallpaper patterns, experimenting with floral elements. In their formal abstraction and rhythm, these handmade sheets follow in the tradition of ornamentation, while their color palette is strikingly fresh and contemporary. Part of the collection is housed in the. Berlin Werkbund Archive — Museum der Dinge.
Christine Jackob-Marks, O.T., 2026, mixed media on canvas, 100 x 80 cm © feinartberlin
Around 2000, Christine Jackob-Marks worked on open-cast mining in Lusatia as an image of the destruction of nature by humans. As if the artist wanted to bring the world back to life, a large – format series of floral still lifes in 2005 marked the end of this Lusatia period. Created from real models — “There were always flowers in the house!” says the artist — paintings from this period counteract the cliché of “flower painting as women’s art” simply through their large format: in “Gerbera II,” only six flowers adorn a 180 x 160cm canvas.
Christine Jackob-Marks, O.T., 2026, mixed media on canvas, 80 x 80 cm © feinartberlin
Since 2025, the floral motif has reappeared. In contrast to 2005, we find dark colors and complex surface structures that sometimes resemble geological formations. An energetic, intuitive gesture emerges, which generally comes to the fore in the painter’s work. From the balance of speed / spontaneity, multiple reworking processes, and experimentation with a wide variety of painting media, she creates brilliant, almost organically grown structures.
Christine Jackob-Marks, O.T., 2026, mixed media on canvas, 80 x 80 cm ©feinartberlin
Anyone familiar with the artist’s political personality and her attentiveness to social developments understands even more clearly why hopeful lights shine out of the mysterious depths of these thickets, night meadows, and microcosmic blossoms. Christine Jackob-Marks says, “Even in the darkness of the dominance of destruction, flowers grow.” Onewould like to respond with Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Earth laughs in flowers.”
Opening: Saturday 28. March 2026 18:00 to 21:00 | 19:00 Official welcome
Exhibition dates: Saturday 28. March until Thursday 07. May 2026
Closing: Thursday 07. May 2026, 18:00 to 21:00
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Image Caption: Christine Jackob-Marks, O.T., 2025, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 100 x 80cm © feinartberlin
Exhibition Christine Jackob-Marks – Galerie feinart berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
