Mark Barker
Selected works
Mark Barker (*1983, Hertfordshire, UK) has a multifaceted approach to making, working across drawing, painting, photography, video, and sculpture. His work is developed through careful observation and research, distilling a broad range of source material. At the heart of his practice is an inquiry into how bodies intertwine with architecture — how we inhabit space, and how space inhabits us.
Biography
Mark Barker is an artist living and working in Berlin. Mark studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Exhibitions include: Mark Barker, Alice Hattrick, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Zuzana Šrámková, Cursor Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2024-2025 (g), The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024 (g), Are you more, Between Bridges, Berlin, 2024 (s), Frieze London, with Shahin Zarinbal, 2023 (s), Zürich Biennale, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2023 (g), The Main Entrance, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 2022 (g), Stone Soup (with Terence McCormack), Roland Ross, Margate, 2022 (two-person), Happy Hour, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2021 (s), Fly, Robin Fly, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, Montpellier, 2021 (g). In 2022, Mark was artist in residence at the Villa Serpentara/Villa Massimo in Olevano/Rome, Italy, for which he was selected by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Mark will have a solo exhibition at LC Queisser, Tbilisi, opening in September 2026.
Exhibitions at Shahin Zarinbal
Whole Property, 2026
The Main Entrance, 2022 (group)
Mark Barker
Selected works
Installation view, Whole Property, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 2026
Untitled, 2024. Watercolour on paper, mountboard, glass, pins, 29.7 × 42 cm
Untitled, 2025. Silver gelatin print, mountboard, glass, pins 36 × 50.5 cm, Ed 1/3 + 2 AP
junger Mann II, 2019. Charcoal on paper, 29.7 × 21 cm, framed: 44 × 34 cm
Installation view, Are you more, Between Bridges, Berlin, 2024
Installation view, Zurich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zurich, 2023-24
Dixi ventilation screen, Berlin, d, 2023. Silver gelatin print, mount board, glass, pins, 30.35 × 40.7 cm
Installation view, Are you more, Between Bridges, Berlin, 2024
Untitled, 2021. Stoneware, gesso, beeswax, 62 × 29 × 39 cm
Wonderful, 2023. Gesso, graphite and watercolour on paper, 18 × 13 cm, framed: 42.5 × 34.3 cm
Installation view, The Main Entrance, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 2022
Build me a wardrobe, and I will marry you, 2024. Graphite, gesso and watercolour on foam board, 25.5 × 18 × 2.5 cm
Mark Barker (*1983, Hertfordshire, UK) has a multifaceted approach to making, working across drawing, painting, photography, video, and sculpture. His work is developed through careful observation and research, distilling a broad range of source material. At the heart of his practice is an inquiry into how bodies intertwine with architecture — how we inhabit space, and how space inhabits us.
Biography
Mark Barker is an artist living and working in Berlin. Mark studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Exhibitions include: Mark Barker, Alice Hattrick, Libuše Jarcovjáková, Zuzana Šrámková, Cursor Gallery, Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2024-2025 (g), The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024 (g), Are you more, Between Bridges, Berlin, 2024 (s), Frieze London, with Shahin Zarinbal, 2023 (s), Zürich Biennale, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2023 (g), The Main Entrance, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, 2022 (g), Stone Soup (with Terence McCormack), Roland Ross, Margate, 2022 (two-person), Happy Hour, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2021 (s), Fly, Robin Fly, Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète, Montpellier, 2021 (g). In 2022, Mark was artist in residence at the Villa Serpentara/Villa Massimo in Olevano/Rome, Italy, for which he was selected by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Mark will have a solo exhibition at LC Queisser, Tbilisi, opening in September 2026.
Exhibitions at Shahin Zarinbal
Whole Property, 2026
The Main Entrance, 2022 (group)