Markus Butkereit

Born in 1976. Lives and works in Berlin.

Markus Butkereit strives never to lose the naivety that he had during his time painting in the streets. He creates a unique handwriting by imagining what the words signify rather than just copying a set calligraphy. He enters his studio with the same energy and speed that he acquired when tagging in dangerous and often dirty environments. This has allowed him to invent his own type of writing.

This pictorial language does not represent things, it symbolises them or even makes them appear, such as the Minotaur figure that does not seem to be painted but instead written. On his canvases, Markus Butkereit pulls from deep within the words a mixture of passion and rage ; words which would have never been able to evoke all of these emotions without the artist’s ingenuity.