Felix Baxmann

Felix Baxmann, born in Ludwigsfelde in 1987, lives and works in Berlin.

He studied fine art both at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with Hanns Schimansky and at the University of the Arts in Berlin in the class of Mark Lammert. Baxmann was a master’s student at the same until September 2017.

In 2017, Baxmann was awarded the Rostock Art Prize in the field of hand drawing. He is the youngest recipient of this award.

“The lines of his art are the direct expression of emotions.” (Norbert Weber, jury of the Rostock Art Prize 2017)

A large part of his works is drawings with micro pigment ink on paper, which are made up of innumerable tiny woven patterns. Some of them are compressed in several layers so that structures are created that are reminiscent of textiles. His work process is almost meditative and requires extreme discipline and perseverance.

“When I draw, the process is always based on a task. I set myself a task before I start. An example: I just use a pencil and make a hundred drawings with it. At some point in the course of this process, I come to a point of physical and/or psychological exhaustion – a point at which I would like to make my work easier by changing the color or medium. But I don’t do that; because overcoming this moment of exhaustion is the focus of my work. The constant overcoming of myself creates a sensitivity in me, which in turn creates new sensitivities, which then refer to the smallest things. The slowness of the work makes my drawn forms denser, which makes something invisible in the work visible: time and overcoming. Each of my works harbors the desire for an external sensitivity, i.e. a feeling for silence and sensitivity should arise in the reception process. The drawings are intended to sensitize the recipient both for his viewing process and for himself. ” (Felix Baxmann, 2017)