Martin Ecker

Martin Ecker (*1963 in Frankfurt am Main Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Ecker began his artistic work as a musician at the age of 14, later adding performance and acting until he began to work with painting, photography and video art.
Martin Ecker is a German photographer and painter who has devoted much of his work to deciphering the reaction of chance and intention. His fascination with experimenting with reactive processes is of great importance: the observation, the action and reaction, the staging. In addition, Ecker has developed unique methods, such as the use of living organisms in photography or oxidation processes in painting. Space, time and light are recurring themes. His works can be found in international collections, companies, private collectors and art lovers.

The artist Ecker can neither paint a portrait nor a charming landscape. Nor does he know how perspective works or which color theory should follow. The artist is not interested in that. For Ecker a too narrow corset. His driving force and training is curiosity, the exploration of reactive processes coupled with an imagination that changes as a work is created. Jokingly, Ecker describes that the way he works reminds him of a love affair.
Time and again, Ecker has been asked to follow this exact path by big-name artists. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, whom Ecker met on a trip to Asia immediately after the death of Jerry Garcia, or Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke, with whom he had a friendship that lasted for years, have confirmed Ecker's unorthodox way and encouraged him to do nothing else.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 MARTIN VAN DE BRUT - The Incredible Return - Berlin
2016 CONVENT I, About Change Collection - Berlin
2015 DEAD BODY, Raum für Kunst - Berlin
2015 SHIFTING VALUES, Studio Gallery - Berlin
2012 PERCEPTION OF VALUE, Ultramarine Gallery - St. Petersburg
2010 INFORMEL, Alte Feuerwache Gallery - Art Association - Dresden
2009 INFORMEL FÜR FORTGESCHRITTENE, Studio Gallery - Berlin
2005 LIQUID, Gallery MFK Berlin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 678 - 678 Berlin
2019 CRITICAL PARADOX - SA161 Berlin
2011 OSTRALE 11 - Dresden
2006 POPISMO - Artport Berlin
2004 7HOURS, Haus 19 - Berlin
2001 THE BIG DEAL - Offenbach am Main
PERFORMANCE
1987 - 1992 Relaxte Atmosphäre
COLLECTIONS
LAMPE Private Banking Corp.
About Change Collection
Friedmann Collection
CORE SA. Collection
COLLECTORS
V. Lutz
M. Schwinn
H. Friedrich