Christian Jankowski (born 1968 in Göttingen, Germany) is a contemporary multimedia artist who largely works in video, installation, and photography.

He has created a number of television interventions. His video installation Telemistica was included in the 1999 Venice Biennale, and shows five Italian television fortune-tellers responding to a phoned-in question about the artist's success of failure at the upcoming Biennale.^[1] The Holy Artwork (2001) is a collaboration with a televangelist pastor. In 2002 Jankowski participated in the Whitney Biennial.^[2]

Notable works

• My Life as a Dove (1996)
• Let's get physical/digital (1997-1998)
• Telemistica (1999)
• The Holy Artwork (2001), held in the collection of the Tate Gallery, London.^[3]
• Point of Sale (2002), held in the collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.^[4]

References

External links

• Klosterfelde.de a description of the artist and his work
• postmedia.net
• BBC interview
• ArtForum review

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