“Art is about the exchange, about the trade, about learning about the other.” A social practice, one might even say, though Jankowski is far from unskilled at producing objects. He is puzzled when asked to name his own most iconic piece. Art school in the ’90s impressed upon Jankowski a lasting faith in concepts over specific form. These figures taught him the power of immaterial strategies and how to make art with even the flimsiest of materials, from fabric to the dust of footprints. Jankowski had to abandon that too, however, when he came under the tutelage of more conceptually oriented artists, such as Franz Erhard Walther and Stanley Brouwn. He even played for the band The Tubes on the song “White Punks on Dope”, but then put his head toward becoming a painter. In an often-related anecdote, the young Jankowski was initially rejected in his application to the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg – he was aiming at music in this period of his life. The living area and bedroom include a Ligne Roset Togo sofa and a blanket by Perelic Woolen Goods © Felix Brüggemann His is a kind of visual John Cage, allowing reality to be the sound of the work. His art is a performative practice, where anything can be his material. Jankowski’s bravura as an intellectual and urbanist is his “détourning” of one reality into the shape of another.

Jankowski’s work is the subject of a current retrospective at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, and he is juggling the usual load of projects, one of which includes a revitalisation of the city of Lübeck with a council that includes, at his request, a number of elementary school-children he also has plans to bring the city’s Protestant churches out of their doldrums by placing supermarkets in their naves. Kreuzberg today is more residential than rock, so it’s somehow perfect for the fiftysomething globetrotter who lives here with his family while carrying out an international career. In the ’70s, this part of Berlin was the cauldron of militant politics. And yet Jankowski’s apartment was used as the production set to recreate a portrait of one of Germany’s most extreme radical groups, Kommune 1 a famous photo of naked rebel student protestors was re-staged in the apartment where he now lives. Jankowski lives in a quiet area near Kreuzberg, on a tree-lined street not quite consonant with its reputation as the rebel heart of Berlin.

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