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).