Christian Pilz

In her text about the work of illustrator Christian Pilz, Manuela O'Connell writes: "The abundance of details challenges the viewer to take a closer look. A technical ability is evident in his work, which does not suggest that the artist works with graphite in just one degree of hardness. With his precision, he opens up millennia-old culture and history to the viewer as a varied game of order and chaos that seems to continue ad infinitum in the drawing.”

The German artist Christian Pilz (born 1978 in Ascot, UK) lives and works in Berlin (D). Pilz studied at the UdK Universität der Kuenste, Berlin and was a master student of Leiko Ikemura. He has received numerous grants and prizes, including the Clara and Eduard Rosenthal grant for art, Jena (2010), the Märkisches grant, Iserlohn (2009); the grant from the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (2016/2017); a stipend from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn (2011); a grant from the Kunststiftung NRW (2019/2020) and was honored with the Cranach grant, Lutherstadt Wittenberg in 2021.
His drawings have been shown in numerous museums, institutions and galleries: Cranach Foundation, Wittenberg (D); Art Museum Moritzburg, Halle/ Saale (D); National Museum of Art La Paz (BOL); Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá (COL); Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (D); Villa Massimo, Rome (IT); Villa Rosenthal, Jena (D); Art Museum Bonn (D); Cultural Foundation Sparkasse Unna (D); Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (D); Marta Herford, Herford (D); Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg; Wolfsburg Art Museum (D); Guardini Foundation Gallery, Berlin (D); Kunstverein Ahlen (D).