Ali Eckert
German-American artist Ali Eckert explores the boundary between cultural narrative and visual reality, primarily focusing on the layered iconography of American pop culture. His art searches for the threshold between narrative and reality.
In Eckert’s art surfaces constantly disguise more than they pretend to be, exposing the hidden, often enigmatic narratives beneath polished facades.
His art is bold, but also detailed, playful and enigmatic. Covered with clues, Eckert’s staged American sceneries give an ambiguous view.
Eckert‘s experience as a photographer and film director shines through in his art. All objects and sceneries are captured through photography. Eckert‘s unique analog process marries photography and painting. In his unique transfer process Eckert manually coats pigments onto canvas. During the process he adds paint.
Ali Eckert works with mixed media, film and photography in his studios in Berlin, Wisconsin and Mallorca. His art has been shown in Europe, China and USA. Eckert’s work has been internationally collected and awarded (e.g. Sander Collection Basel, Zagoras Collection Athens, German Art Fund Hungary).
Selected EXHIBITIONS
Museum
2021 'Backlands', Academic of Fine Arts, Chongquin, China
2021 'Searching For The American Myth', Rosenhang Museum, Weilburg, D
2020 ‘X + 1’, Academic of Fine Arts, Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China
Solo
2025 'Archangels', Hohmann Fine Art, Palm Springs, USA
2023 'The Art Of Detail', Galerie Loeser, Erfurt
2022 'Icons', Hohmann Fine Art, Palm Desert, USA
2021 'Lost', Galerie Mond Fine Arts, Berlin
2020 'American Myth', Galerie Mond Fine Arts, Berlin
Group
2025 Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week, Contessa Gallery, Scottsdale, USA
2025 Traces‘ Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin, D
2024 ‚Unveiled‘ Upsilon Gallery, London, GB
2024 'Spring Group Exhibition', Maune Contemporary, Santa Barbara, USA
2023 'XE', Upsilon Gallery, New York City, USA
2023 'The Hyundai Seoul', Upsilon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022 'Fete de l'éte', Jenny Falckenberg, Hamburg, D
2022 'NFT - A Crypto Dimension', Galerie Mond Fine Arts, Berlin, D
2020 'Sexhibition‘, Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, USA
2019 ‘Mona Lisa - A Smile for Europe’, Senat Berlin, D
2018 ‘Provoke’, Neumann-Hug, St. Urban, Switzerland
Awards
2016 Selection "Photography“, German Art Fund Hungary
2008 “Best Movie", Lichter Filmtage Frankfurt
2004 “Friedrich-Wilhelm Murnau Preis”, Best Film
2004 “DKF Multimedia Group", Best Director
2003 “Best Shortfilm”, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Flensburg
2002 “Comet”, Best National Video
2001 “World Bronze Medal”, The New York Festivals
2000 “The Golden Icarus Film Prize”, London,
1996 "Best Cinema Advertisement", London Commercial Film Festival
1996 “Bavaria Filmprize”, Best VFX
1996 “The Silver Award”, Philadelphia, Short Film
MixedMedia painting On Canvas
80cm x 80cm
83cm x 83cm (framed)