Marc Brandenburg

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Marc Brandenburg (born July 18, 1965) is a German artist. Marc Brandenburg was born in Berlin in 1965, the son of a German mother and an Afro-American GI who worked for the US military. In 1968 he moved with his family to the US, and returned in 1977 to West Berlin, where he soon came into contact with the punk scene. From 1983 until 1988 he worked as a doorman in the Berlin nightclub Dschungel, which he had been frequenting since the late 1970s. Named by his mother after Marc Bohan, the chief designer of Dior, he began to work, self-taught, as a fashion designer in 1984, and frequently collaborated with other designers such as Claudia Skoda, PLEZ and Tabea Blumenschein. In 1988 he appeared in East Berlin with the performance art and music group Die Tödliche Doris. Fashion was to remain an element of his artistic work. Thus, in his first institutional solo exhibition Oceans of Violence (with Sabina Maria van der Linden) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (1993), he showed his work Camouflage Pullover for Foreigners and a Burberry camouflage cap, a reaction to the 1992 violent xenophobic riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. In 2009 he collaborated with designer Bernhard Wilhelm for a collection, in 2010 he designed undershirts for Schiesser, and in 2016 he worked with Bless on the Daycation collection. Marc Brandenburg lives in Berlin and Barcelona.