5am
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Narrative Art |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 70 cm |
| Width | 50 cm |
| Length/Depth | 2 cm |
Material:
Acrylic and pastel chalk on Finnish wood-based board
Year:
2026
Delivery:
The artwork will be dispatched in a frameless frame (as pictured) – including a certificate of authenticity and the artist’s signature on the reverse.
Info:
Whenever I hear the song ‘5am’ by the band Weltraumrauschen, I’m transported back to the autumn of 2024 time and again. That was an incredibly beautiful time spent painting. Somehow, it was just about me and my studio. I spent days there, painting and painting. And whenever I stayed there a bit too long – because I actually had to be out again the next morning to work as a teacher – I felt this song so deeply. That feeling of still being out and about very late at night. Roaming through the night whilst everyone else is already asleep.
Following my own path,
not sure which way to go.
‘5am’ is a tribute to that time, to that song. And, first and foremost, to that feeling.
Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeR_cUMMv5a/
Drew Mazyck
Drew Mazyck is a visual artist and art teacher in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main under Kerstin Gottschalk.
In his artistic practice, he primarily explores the fragmentary and elusive nature of human experience. This is reflected in his abstract forms and his rejection of anything that is clearly comprehensible. For him, a work should always retain an element of the intangible. Especially in those moments when we are closest to it.
This ethos in his artistic practice is significantly shaped by Drew Mazyck’s personal history. Firstly, through growing up in a neighbourhood of Frankfurt am Main with a strong migrant community and through his own history of migration. As a result, he repeatedly experienced from an early age that one’s own identity has an inherently fragmentary and elusive quality. A piece of home that is always somewhere quite different from where one is oneself.
During his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Sociology, he explored precisely this fragmentary nature from a socio-psychological and philosophical perspective. His key influences here were initially post-structuralism and, later, the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan and his philosophical successors.
Ultimately, for him, art is the logical continuation of philosophy. For it is where thinking about and describing human experience reaches its limits that the artistic exploration begins.
Exhibitions, performances, art fairs, etc. :
2025
09/2025 – Book of Games (curated by Carsten Höller) @ Fondation Beyeler, Basel (performance)
08/2025 – How does it feel to orbit? @ Pieve di Molli, Italy (Performance)
2024
September 2024 – SKM Community Exhibition @ SKM Gallery, Leipzig (group exhibition)
2023
June 2023 – ANCOOR x Drew @ Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin (Performance)
May 2023 – Danzig am Platz, Frankfurt (Performance)
April 2023 – Arte Fusion, Stuttgart (art fair)
March 2023 – ARTMUC, Munich (art fair)
January 2023 – stay in touch @ 68 Gallery, Mannheim (solo exhibition)
2022
Dec 2022 – Back to the future @ Galerie Lau, Munich (group exhibition)
Dec 2022 – Kronberger Kulturkreis Annual Exhibition, Kronberg (group exhibition)
November 2022 – Contact Painting @ АТЕЉЕ/Ingo.069, Offenbach (performance and solo exhibition)
10/2022 – SKM Community Exhibition @ Meetfrida, Hamburg (group exhibition)
09/2022 – someplace else @ Hundert Pro Festival, Mühlheim (group exhibition)
July 2022 – Kunstpädagogisches Institut, Frankfurt (group exhibition)
2021
November 2021 – Art Taunus, Kronberg (group exhibition)
Nov 2021 – Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel (film festival)
September 2021 – Afrikana Independent Film Festival (film festival)
September 2021 – SKM Community Exhibition 2021, Leipzig (group exhibition)
February 2021 – Kunstpädagogisches Institut, Frankfurt (group exhibition)
