Malte Zenses, selected works

With ironic nonchalance, Malte Zenses’ (*1987) paintings and sculptures expand the vocabulary of abstract painting and new realism by pointedly integrating the zeitgeist of his generation through autobiographical fragments. His inspiration often begins with a memory, a place or a snapshot. Disguising the personal references, he uses his own set of abstract codes made up of personal symbols, signs and lyrics. Rather than implementing his own story through known codes, he educes the viewers own memories while capturing the spirit of our ceaseless journey between the digital and the analogue. Through this play of codes and tones, words and signs, Malte Zenses develops his own visual language and aesthetic. Formalistically not bound by materiality or media, he constantly relates between different places and harmonizes the personal and impersonal. His artistic practice can therefore also be described as an appropriation, translation and recycling of experienced reality.

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Birkenwald in Wilhelmsruh
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
charcoal, paper and acrylic on canvas, floater frame
150 x 120 cm
Birkenwald am Mauerweg
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
charcoal, InkJet transfer print and acrylic on canvas, floater frame
150 x 120 cm
Zeit zum Aussterben
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil, pencil, paper and acrylic on canvas
80 x 100 cm
Vorwärts
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
Mixed media on canvas
60 x 80 cm
Fetztage in der Villa
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
Mixed media on canvas
60 x 80 cm
- Uh... [inhales sharply] - Okay.
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
[crying] - Hey, Kate.
2023
Artists
Malte Zenses
Oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
Hi!
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and acrylic on canvas
150 x 120 cm
Hi, big brother. How's your ass?
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and acrylic on canvas, walnut wood frame
80 x 120 cm
More! Burn it all!
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and acrylic on canvas, walnut wood frame
80 x 120 cm
There's never a cop around when you need one.
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and acrylic on canvas
150 x 120 cm
irgendwann checkst du nix mehr
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
silkscreen print, pastel and oil on canvas
150 x 130 cm
There is no phone ringing, damn it!
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and gouache on canvas
60 x 80 cm
It was beautiful – schön wars #1
2021
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil, paper (inkjet print) on canvas
130 x 100 cm
50% fuck you 50% love you
2020
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil, spray paint and paper on canvas
120 x 100 cm
Sie hat es sich jetzt anders überlegt
2020
Artists
Malte Zenses
spray paint, oil, glue and paper on canvas
100 x 130 cm
Fragment einer Architektur #2
2020
Artists
Malte Zenses
steel and concrete
160 x 90 cm
Bootssteg am Gardasee
2019
Artists
Malte Zenses
Oil on canvas
170 x 150 cm
Die Schnecken versammeln sich um den Salzstreuer
2019
Artists
Malte Zenses
Oil on canvas
170 x 150 cm
Wasserstunden, cool (Zu weit fort Teil II)
2017
Artists
Malte Zenses
spray paint and paper on canvas
180 x 150 cm
Mit Karin im Golf II
2019
Artists
Malte Zenses
oil and pencil and spray-paint on canvas
160 x 120 cm
I see him living high in the light...
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
pastel chalk and inkjet print on paper (140g)
21 x 29.7 cm
There was no light, brother. Just the fire.
2022
Artists
Malte Zenses
pastel chalk and inkjet print on paper (140g)
29.7 x 21 cm
schwarz-weiß
2020
Artists
Malte Zenses
indian ink on paper
53.5 x 64.5 cm