Chris Hinze

Installation

"Traumschiff – PORT II"

Exhibition “Doppeldeutig”, Kunstraum Potsdam 2016

Installation New Brick Factory Glindow 2017

"Das Traumschiff" is both a carrier and a reduction of what surrounds me. It contains creation and destruction: becoming and passing away. The rods stick out of the hull like dreams. The ship is a means of transport. Running aground - the nightmare, the failure of the created vision, the illusion. The ship shattered, brought to its final resting place - now in the beauty of morbidity. An image of silence; the slow process of decay, of realignment and reconnection between earth and sky in a meditative space.

Chris Hinze 2016

about Chris Hinze

Born in 1969 in Cottbus. Chris Hinze approached the visual arts as an autodidact and has been working as a freelance artist since 1992. In 1983 he and his friends founded the band Sandow, which has combined music and staging since its inception. In 2007, Chris Hinze and five other artists from Brandenburg were selected by the Batuz Foundation for a work residency in Montevideo (Uruguay), which culminated in an exhibition in the Cabildo, the old town hall in Montevideo. On site, he spontaneously used a chainsaw to saw a five-meter-long boat out of a fallen elm tree, with a ferryman on the bow and a couple in love on the stern.

In September 2009, he founded the house of art Sans titre in Potsdam together with Mikos Meininger, which stands for sophisticated exhibitions of national and international artists in the field of contemporary art. Chris Hinze was on the board of the association until 2017. Since 2017 he has been working on the premises of the brick factory in Glindow. The artist wants to give free rein to his creativity in peace and quiet in the countryside. His areas of work are diverse and range from sculpture and installation to graphics and painting to performance art.