*1984 (Braunschweig / DE)
Malte Bartsch was trained by a number of important artists, including Tadashi Kavamata at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, and Olaffur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In 2015 he completed his studies as a master student of Manfred Pernice.
His oeuvre encompasses a wide range of visual media - sculpture, installation, photography, and video. His focus is on the themes of modern machinery and technology, which often present themselves to the viewer in a dystopian manner. More concretely, they are intended to visualize the unclear future of the relationship between man and machine.
Bartsch's art broaches the subject of man by integrating him directly into the production of his (often) ephemeral works. This interactivity is, for example, revealed in Feuerwehrautomat II (2018), in which the dramaturgy of a firework display is in the hands of the observer. Such interactivity between viewer and work is also displayed in the works Insert Coin (2014) and Coin Drop (2015). Time Machine (2013) prompts the viewer to press a red button, causing the machine to issue a receipt indicating the duration of the button press, the time, and the location of the machine. The boundary between work and beholder, between machine and man, disappears, opening up further questions about their shared present and future (co-existence).
His works have been shown at Kunsthalle Willhelmshaven, Art Space Lemoyne in Zurich, Kunsthalle Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Kunstverein Bochum, Neue Nationalgalerie as well as Eigen + Art Gallery in Berlin and other venues.
Malte Bartsch lives and works in Berlin.
