Markus Lippeck

Due to his inclination, coupled with the influence of anthroposophical thought, Markus cannot imagine a life without creativity and a constantly new, searching, artistic urge. After school, he aspired to an academic, artistic education, but this was denied to him by the imponderables of life. In this academic context, Markus sees himself as a "thwarted" artist, who gains his creative power precisely from the fact that there is always something rumbling inside him.

He is interested in a wide variety of crafts: painting, drawing, collage, furniture making, architecture, textile design, graphics, photography and even a bit of music! In recent years Markus has also collected ideas for working with stone, concrete and ceramics. His greatest art is and remains the "art of living" and his only true work of art is "life itself" and not just in an egotistical, hedonistic sense.

"Social sculpture" as an experience and path to liberation - because freedom means not being afraid of anything or anyone!

In understanding and defining Joseph Beuys' concept of art, he sees the power of art above all in its effect and persistence as "social sculpture". In addition to the museum-like, the immediately beautiful, for Markus art should above all have a "social effect" and ideally be "walkable and tangible". In times of dissolution, "petrification" and collective "bans on thinking", Markus believes that an important achievement of art is to (re)develop social forces, to promote discourse, to "free" thoughts and, above all, to (re)create a truly effective place for human intuition and emotional life.

The promotion of the Luciferic as an important counterpole in an Ahrimanically blocked world.

People live in initiative and this is stifled by punishment or disregard for (cultural) achievement. Conversely, (cultural) achievement promotes initiative and thus free, individual and social creative power. Art without a social "hub" is dead! In this sense, Markus sees himself in his adopted home of Worpswede in the spirit and tradition of Heinrich Vogeler. Markus' greatest work of art consists of creating citizen symposiums and promoting discourse production. His works of art are also inspired by the life's work of the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The vision is to transform public spaces "in themselves" into walk-in installations and to make the viewer himself a reflection surface and part of the, or his own, (life) art.