Martin Neubert

Martin Neubert sensitively and nuancedly depicts the human figure, guided by respect and esteem. He focuses primarily on outsiders, the “losers” or “clowns” on the fringes of society, creating expressive images that can evoke happiness and sadness, awaken empathy, and disturb. His figures elicit a broad spectrum of ambivalent feelings in the viewer. He constructs his figures like a collage, figuratively expressing their complexity. His passionate handling of the ceramic material and his joy in “sticking” individual components together are always evident.

Neubert takes a clear and courageous stance with his work, focusing on the non-conformist in terms of both content and aesthetics, accentuating the oppressive and spurning the pleasing. He declares himself the mouthpiece of the outsiders. As he stated in Ceramics Now, September 2020: “I am moved by the handicapped everyday not-heroes who try to overcome obstacles and breaks. The ‘nervous boys’ around the corner, who can’t help to be a little bit out of touch. Failures and mistakes make the final picture – the goal is a credibly formulated confidence.”

His work resides in numerous museum collections, including the Museum for Applied Art in the Ferberschen Haus, Gera; Marburg University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg; the Ceramics Museum; Athens Art Gallery, Ohio, USA; and the State Gallery Moritzburg, State Art Museum Saxony-Anhalt, Halle.

Martin Neubert lives and works in Weimar, Germany.