Bike Art 2000 Afrika
Paa Ya Paa Art Centre
Biography
Marco was born in Munich in 1973. After school he went to live in Ireland and Britain, where he was living on a boat for over 12 years.
He studied painting in Cardiff and Falmouth (GB).
In 2000 he was selected for the the UNESCO-Aschberg bursary for a residency at the Paa Ya Paa Art Centre in Nairobi (Kenya).
The resulting work was exhibited at the UN Headquarters in Gigiri.
He then organised BIKE ART AFRIKA with Eva Rønnevig, in which they and 3 local artists cycled from Nairobi to Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania). They worked together with the National Museum, and the Nyumba Ya Sanaa (House of Art).
After their return they opened Galerie Lebenskunst (near Munich) together with his brother Roland.
In 2002 Eva and Marco were walking with a mule in the Andes (in Ecuador) for a few months (always with sketch books and musical instruments in their bags).
They then spent some years living on a houseboat in the South-West of Britain, in Cornwall.
There Marco returned to painting on canvas, after years of exploring metal sculpture, installations, and ornamental photography.
The couple are now based in the South of France, in the hills of the wild Corbieres.
In July 2008 they opened Atelier ArtBonBon in their house in Tuchan (near Perpignan).
Marco’s paintings are inspired by his extensive travels, and his passion for different languages, cultures and ways of living.
His work is exhibited at Fire&Iron Gallery (London, UK), Galerie Impasto (Oslo, Norway), Galerie Kersten (Munich, Germany), The Picture House Galleries (Cornwall, UK), , Metiers d’Art St Roch (Cérét, France), , Demelza’s Gallery (Falmouth, UK), Cofro (Mevagissey, UK), and others,
and now also at his own Gallery/Studio Atelier ArtBonBon (Tuchan, France)
Aventura Artistica Ecuador
Galerie Lebenskunst
Exhibitions
2010 Galerie Impasto Art, Oslo (Norway)
Metiers d’Art St Roch, Cérét (France)
Smia, Oslo (Norway)
Galerie Kersten, Munich (Germany)
2009 Galerie Kersten, Munich (Germany)
Metiers d’Art St Roch, Cérét (France)
Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Gruissan (France)
Office de Tourisme, Cucugnan (France)
Petite Galerie, Cascastel (France)
2008 Opening of Atelier ArtBonBon, Tuchan (France)
Metiers d’Art St Roch, Cérét (France)
Galerie Profils, Collioure (France)
Domaine de Rolland, Tuchan (France)
Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
Fête des Peintres, St. Rémy-de-Provence (France)
2007 Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
Pihl & Pihl, Fjenneslev (Denmark)
Le Violon Vert, Le Faouet (France)
Picture House Galleries, Cornwall (UK)
Demelza’s Gallery, Falmouth (UK)
Cofro, Mevagissey (UK)
2006 Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro (UK)
Waterfront, Falmouth (UK)
Picture House Galleries, Cornwall (UK)
Cofro, Mevagissey (UK)
Demelza’s Gallery, Falmouth (UK)
Crow’s Nest Gallery, Cornwall (UK)
2005 Picture House Galleries, Cornwall (UK)
Cofro, Mevagissey (UK)
Columbia Road Gallery, London (UK)
Demelza’s Gallery, Falmouth (UK)
Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
2004 Falmouth Arts Centre (UK)
“Last Christmas I gave you my Art”
Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
2003 Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
2002 Galleri Iskunst, Oslo (Norway)
Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
2001 Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
Opening, with Evanson Kangethe
2000 Nyumba Ya Sanaa (House of Art), Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania)
Final exhibition of Bike Art 2000 Afrika
Kikuyu Homestead Garden, National Museum, Nairobi (Kenya)
Flagging off show, Bike Art 2000 Afrika
Goethe Institut, Nairobi (Kenya)
“Worlds together, worlds apart”, with Wanjohi Nyamu
UN Headquarters, Gigiri, Nairobi (Kenya)
Opening, with Evanson Kangethe
1999 Camden Lock Market, London (UK)
Volapuek Kultursenter, Oslo (Norway)
Candid Gallery, London (UK)
1991-1999 various exhibitions in Germany, Ireland, U.K.
Public & Private Collections, Permanent Exhibitions
Since 2010 Galerie Impasto Art, Oslo (Norway)
Since 2009 Metiers d’Art St Roch, Cérét (France)
Galerie Kersten, Munich (Germany)
Toulouges Prix Public, (France)
Since 2007 ErsteEtage, Munich (Germany)
Teknos (Denmark)
Dyrup (Denmark)
J. Tham, Cornwall (U.K.)
Since 2006 The Front, Falmouth (U.K.)
Since 2005 Picture House Galleries, Cornwall (U.K.)
Cofro, Mevagissey(U.K)
Since 2003Demelza’s Gallery, Falmouth(U.K)
2002-05Town Council House Oberhaching, Munich (Germany)
Since 2001 Galerie Lebenskunst, Munich (Germany)
Since 1999 Fire & Iron Gallery, London (U.K.)
1999- 2004 Maverick’s Restaurant,Falmouth (U.K.)
Adventure Art Projects
2002 Aventura Artistica
Walking with a mule through the Andes in Ecuador, together with E. Rønnevig
2001 Bike Art Germany
Cycling from Munich (Germany) to Oslo (Norway).
Exhibitions and music performances on the way
2000 BIKE ART 2000 AFRIKA
Cycling from Nairobi (Kenya) to Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania)
Exhibitions and music performances on the way (Moshi, Arusha, Weru-Weru, Kitengela, Bagamoyo, etc)
Bursaries, Prizes
2009 Prix Public, Concours de Peinture, Toulouges, (France)
2000Artist in Residence at Paa Ya Paa Art Center, Nairobi (Kenya)
under UNESCO-Aschberg bursaries for artists programme
Education
1995-1998 BA(Hons) Fine Art (Painting) at Falmouth College of Arts
1994-1999 Foundation Studies at Cardiff Institute for Higher Education
1990-1992 German Abitur (=A-Levels), Art, Latin, Maths, Geography
Story of my life
1973 Born in Munich (Germany), thanks to my parents. First impression overwhelming.
1974 – 1976 Crying and shouting performances. First experimental playing with shapes and colours.
1977 – 1978 Kindergarten with my mum. Traditional arrangements and installations (castles and cowboys)
1979– 1983 Creative writing, memorising of pictures. Playing with natural materials in forest and garden. Influence and inspiration from mother and grandmother.
1984 – 1992 School. Traditional drawing and art history. Hardly any time to concentrate on my own work.
1992 Abitur, then Ireland adventure. First contact with the big, blue sea. Lots of landscape paintings in Drimnalough, Donegal. Birth of passion for exploring new countries and cultures.
1993 – 1994 Working at day care centre, Munich. Drawing and playing with disabled kids.
1994 – 1995 Painting in Wales (u.k.), Foundation in art and design in Cardiff IHE. Playing by the cliffs.
1995 – 1998 Moving to Cornwall. BA (Hons) degree in painting at Falmouth College of Arts. Living on a houseboat. Photographs of water-reflections. Playing with found objects from the beach.
1999 ”flotsam and jetsam”, Cornwall. Living and working in Norway.
Exhibitions in London, Oslo, Munich, and Cornwall.
2000 Living in Kenya. UNESCO-Aschberg bursary, “90 days in the ruins” at Paa Ya Paa art centre.
Organising Bike Art Afrika, cycling from National Museum in Nairobi to the Nyumba ya Sanaa in Dar-es-salaam (Tanzania).
2001 Journey to Spain. Opening Galerie Lebenskunst in Munich with my brother. Winter in Norway.
2002 Walking with a mule in the Andes, Ecuador. Summer in Norway. Moving back to Falmouth. New boat. Painting on maps: “Planet of Friends”.
2003 - 05 Flocks of rusty metal birds. Playing folk music in pubs. Painting flying birds, mainly outside on the quay. New band, new studio. Painting my life in Cornwall. Getting married to my beautiful wife Eva.
2006 Fixing up our boat , the “Ranger of Lune.” Following the migrating birds to the Pyrenees, in autumn.
2007 Three giant steel birds, made in Lamorna. Then art delivery Europe tour.
Cornwall-Munich-Copenhagen-Oslo-Kristiansand-Zurich. And finally back in Southern France for the planting season.
2008 Working on house&land. Eva is pregnant. Opening of Atelier ArtBonBon. Birth of Tamino.
Atelier ArtBonBon
