Christoph Knecht

Painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation comprise the work of Christoph Knecht (born 1983 in Karlsruhe; lives and works in Dusseldorf). The motifs of his works are multifaceted and disparate; the age of meta-narratives seems bygone. As a representative of the younger generation of digital natives, the artist is guided by this notion. Knecht?s wide-ranging selection of motifs reflects the will to cognize: he unravels signs, explores ideas of cultural belonging, and pushes toward engagement by reiterating and modifying symbolisms. The series Plant of Opportunities shows amorphous plant people that even the Surrealists could not have drawn any better. Knecht adds an anthropomorphic plant boy carrying a smartphone to this supposedly dreamy and introspective scenario. Blue-painted, glazed tile works in the style of the Portuguese Azulejos form a 360-degree tiled wall panorama?they depict globally spread symbols, such as metal hard shell suitcases, ancient star constellations, or YouTube icons. In the series Yad Chen, the artist entwines Israeli beauty products with Islamic, religious quotes; he paints these on canvas in the Cubist style using Arabic characters. Yet Knecht also dra