Frank-Kirk Ehm-Marks, Nude, Bizarre Erotic Scene, 1991, Acrylic Painting on Board

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Frank-kirk ehm-marks

1961 bad kreuznach - 2022 berlin

'bizarrely erotic motif with two male and one female figure'

signed and … Read more Frank-kirk ehm-marks

1961 bad kreuznach - 2022 berlin

'bizarrely erotic motif with two male and one female figure'

signed and dated (1991) lower center

acrylic on cardboard, attached verso to black cardboard with a few spots

unframed

size: 70 x 50.2 cm

frank-kirk ehm-marks

painter, writer, poet.

grew up with his grandparents in berlin-spandau.

he left school without graduating in 1977.

as a teenager, he became involved in the drug scene around the zoo train station. He played himself in a small role in the film about christiane f.

he was active in the squatting scene (including at adalbertstraße 6), though his actual role in this is unclear.

his interest in books and art began to grow. He "found his points of reference at the margins of the literary canon: charles manson, céline, villon, and of course, charles bukowski" (erik steffen).

after going cold turkey, he began writing and painting intensively. Nevertheless, he relapsed again, and another detox became necessary.

from 1984 onward, his texts and drawings were published by small presses, and occasionally self-published.

his writing brought him to the attention of a wider audience; he published books and gave readings (including at the "mongo bar," and in 2003 at the "text flex" reading series as part of the 6th long night of books on oranienstraße in berlin).

together with matt grau, he ran the "kreuzberg puppet theater."

in 2017, he suffered a brain hemorrhage, losing his ability to speak and read, his short-term memory, and his mobility. He painstakingly fought his way back to recovery.

exhibitions:

1990 galerie “w 33”, leipzig-lindenau

june 2004 exhibition (with alexandre boiko), kunstraum b, kiel

2012 participated in the exhibition “feeling & hardness, upheaval & downfall around oranienstraße in kreuzberg from 1971 to 1989”, kreuzberg museum, berlin

april 2024 represented in the exhibition “action”, zwitschermaschine, berlin

may 2024 “frank-kirk ehm-marks. No phenomena. Now more than ever!”, zwitschermaschine, berlin

writings:

“urethritis. Texts, poems” (1989)

“mielach’s bells” (1989)

“the blue cigarette machine” (1996)

“happiness on the hollywood swing” (1997)

“monotonous life in unadorned space” (2004) this piece has an attribution mark,
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