Marc Sadler

Marc Sadler’s paintings are meditations on history, culture, and public or intimate spaces. They draw on his travels, his reading, his chance encounters, as well as significant personal experiences. Certain motifs he once sketched—such as a policewoman in 2004 or the interior of a train carriage during a long journey in India—reappear in his works even decades later. These memories, preserved in sketchbooks, photographs, or as persistent sensations, are transformed in his studio into lines, colours, and spontaneous gestures. For him, painting creates a continuous present and offers the viewer a poetic and mysterious experience.

BIO

Marc Sadler, born in Glasgow, studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art before travelling through Europe, the Middle East and India in the 1990s, exploring the transformations of the post–Cold War world in search of new subjects. After living for a time in Paris at the end of that decade, he has divided his life between Berlin and Glasgow since 2005. His work has been shown internationally and has received several distinctions, including a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. From 2019 to 2023, he was Guest Professor of Painting at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

A regular contributor on art, he has written for various publications, including Frieze. Since 1997, he has co-hosted the artistic salon Fiction House with Elín Jakobsdóttir.