Biography

Markus Gley, born in 1980, graduate of the "Hero at the UDK Berlin" class, is a very extroverted painter who quickly found his own memorable style. His works are self-portraits / states of man and nature itself.
He implements the maxim of Joseph Beuys, "Art is life - life is art" risking everything - only committed to the truth.
In his new works, Markus Gley goes from eccentric to ordered rasta painting, which is shown in galaxies and other states of the universe.
Markus Gley lives and works in Germany in Greifswald and Berlin.

  • 19.06.1980: born as Markus Hinz in Greifswald
  • 1987-1998: Erwin-Fischer Realschule, Friedrich-Ludwig Jahn Gymnasium, Ernst- Moritz-Arndt Realschule
  • 1998-2001: Apprenticeship as a carpenter
  • 2001-2002: Community Service Johanna-Odebrecht Foundation
  • 2002-2004: Work as a carpenter in Hamburg
  • 2005-2009: Kunststudium an der Universität der Künste Berlin bei Georg Baselitz und Burkhard Held
  • 2009-2010: Graduated as a master student of the "Held class"

About Markus Gley

Markus Gley‘s pictures confront the viewer in an expressive and at times psychedelic way. Small details and a decisive use of color make his works emotional portraits. It is about the human condition and the representation of these sensitivities through art. Markus Gley thus embodies the modern artist personality par excellence.

Markus Gley is an extraordinary artist. Born in Greifswald in 1980, he came to art via detour. First he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and later studied painting with Burkhard Held in Berlin.

We are all wanderers between different worlds, Markus Gley senses this diversity and manages to compress it in his pictures. His points of reference are pop culture and autobiographical material. Gley‘s art is always a reference to Beuys‘ formula „Art is life - life is art“. In terms of form and content, an artistic position that stands out from current painting.

As a „unique point“, Markus Gley combines digital art with „classical“ painting in his work: For many years, Markus Gley has created digital equivalents to his paintings as short, moving image sequences. The development of NFTs has now benefited him. A QR code is hidden in the new images that leads to a clip as an NFT on a website. Markus Gley is one of the few artists who manages to cross this boundary convincingly.