“The DNA of my art is the 90s and 0s, a once analogue world and the digital revolution. I’m fascinated by videogame designs, the aesthetics of music videos and plastic toys.”
MARTIN SCHUSTER
Martin Schuster (1986), born in Postdam, Germany, currently lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. Martin graduated from the University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany (2014) and studied for one year at the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam (2012). Since his graduation, Martin has exhibited his work in art spaces, galleries and at art fairs. Among these are Galerie Intershop (Leipzig, Germany), Spazio MURKA (Florence, Italy) and at art fair Positions (Berlin, Germany). His work is included in various public and private collections.
What Martin Schuster finds interesting is what concerns his generation. He is especially interested in exploring consumer behavior. Memories and experiences from his childhood and youth inspire Martin Schuster. An inner lightness that can be found in almost all his paintings contradicts thinking about a society whose capitalist structure is characterized by unfair hierarchies, consumption, strive for profit and growth. Schuster wonders how these symptoms affect our well-being, feelings and desires.
Martin’s paintings show parties, journeys, an escape from reality and a lot of contemporary surrealism. He intends to arrange his landscapes like stage settings as they can be found in cinemas and theatres. Often, they are situated in a post-apocalyptic world, picturing the future, which turns out to be the present, or the other way around. A theme that appears consistently in his paintings is simultaneity: infinite pleasure, immeasurable possibilities of reason and intelligence, greed and senseless thrill coexist.
Martin noticed to himself, and those around him, that there is a strong need for places to retreat. This determines his art, as well as an underlying optimism: Everything goes on somehow and beautiful plants can grow on crap.
As measured by statistics the world has never known more safety and liberity as it does today. How do we deal with the resulting freedom of choice and the knowledge about the responsibility of our actions? Schuster‘s biggest source of inspiration is the ambivalence of human life in a world that can appear beautiful and hideous.
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Exhibitions at Galerie Nasty Alice: Shifting Times 2025 . Fantasia 2022 . Fair Share Art Fair 2022 . KunstRAI 2022 . Ein, Zwei, Drie, Vier 2021 . Land of Glory 2019 .
