Publications

Art Catalogues & Books

Publication 2025:
Paintings and paper works

The title refers to the warm, humid southerly wind that blows across the Mediterranean, bringing sand from the Sahara and capturing the feeling of the last hot days on a Greek island, the echo of a summer bridging the cold of the German winter. 

Marco Kaufmann’s new works build on his previous work and at the same time set new accents. As in the last exhibition „Anderswo/Elsewhere“, the focus here is on the creative process – a dynamic interplay between control and coincidence, whereby the atmospheric motif now combines the heat and lightness of the south with the reflection and depth that characterize Kaufmann’s works.

Publication 2015:
Marco Kaufmann
Paintings

„In his latest paintings the Artist trades bright colours for elegant forms and striking veils of shades. In these works, Marco Kaufmann also explores to a greater extent the empirical effects of colour, apposition, shapes and layers within abstraction. The processes he uses still vary according to unpremeditated circumstances and cause and effect, nonetheless.“ …
(text excerpt of writer Will Furtado)

Publication 2015:
Out of the Blue
Paintings,
(early works)

„In Marco Kaufmanns work, organic shapes are brought together with the geometry of man-made structures to create an exciting contrast. Condensed into a visual language by means of a minimalist reduction, both are mysterious and surreal –  yet at the same time they are as carefree and joyful as the ephemeral memory of sunny holidays . The vivid colours and playful shapes develop lives of their own; full of esprit and lightness. …“
(text excerpt of journalist Melanie Pollinger)

Publication 2010:
Anrandungen,
Photo Project

„Anrandungen“ (literally translated as “ on the verge of …“) – a photographic project traveling along the European Union’s new Eastern border from Estonia to Romania.

A journey from the north to the south along the periphery of our great political and cultural project: the European Union, led Marco Kaufmann from Estonia through Latvia, Lithuania, eastern Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the eastern border regions of Romania. Such a trip, taking over 8 weeks by car, allowed the artist to accumulate a wealth of material from observations and encounters along the way. A selection of them can be seen in this photo book.