HalloChristophMKetel
[ painting · Studio portrait ]
Studio, Alt-Hohenschönhausen, BerlinPhoto · 2024

About
me

I'm a painter. I make work about the things most people stop noticing — a toy, a kettle, a hose coiled in a garage — and I paint them at a size that doesn't let you look away.
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I was born in Berlin and studied graphic design at the Lette Verein in Berlin. I learned to paint with Christine Klemke, daughter of Werner Klemke. Since then I've worked from a studio in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin.

My process is slow. An object usually sits in the studio for months before it earns a canvas — I want to know its weight, the way light catches its edges, the colour it actually is rather than the colour I assume it to be. Each painting takes between four and ten months; most are oil on linen, painted in thin, deliberate layers.

The work has been shown recently in Berlin, Leipzig and Vienna, and is held in private collections across Europe. A solo exhibition is planned for 2027.

02Curriculum vitae
Exhibitions
  • 2026Shark — solo, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin
  • 2025Things, Painted Patiently — solo, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
  • 2024In Plain Sight — group, Spinnerei, Leipzig
  • 2024Painters of the Domestic — group, Galerie Knoll, Vienna
  • 2022Drawer — solo, Schwarz Contemporary, Berlin
  • 2021Hochschultage — UdK Rundgang, Berlin
Education
  • 2014 — 2020Meisterschüler with Prof. Anna Reiner, UdK Berlin
  • 2010 — 2014Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München