Michael Wutz wurde 1979 in Ichenhausen geboren und hat an der UdK Berlin bei Leiko Ikemura studiert, bei der er auch seinen Meisterschüler machte. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. 2011 erhielt er den Horst-Janssen-Grafikpreis. Seine Werke wurden u.a. im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart und im Horst-Janssen Museum, Oldenburg ausgestellt und sind Teil der Sammlung des Berliner Kupferstichkabinetts.

Michael Wutz is an educated artist, who knows many disciplines: philosophically versed, politically thinking, reading and practicing archaeology. This is matched by his gift for artistically representing and expressing this diverse repertoire of ideas. When he undertakes enormous formats such as the “Germania” plan of Albert Speer in order to set it at one with the horror and destruction of the great city of Berlin and its postwar architectures, he is able to do so because he is more than adept in the techniques of etching, because in his technical mastery of the medium he always has in mind the image that we as viewers see. He teaches aesthetically, he thinks in the image. Wutz also is a great drawer. In his circle of works “Kopfbäume” (literally “head trees”) and in many of his other drawings, his ethnological studies become visible, which never know the allure of the exotic, but which the depictions of the rites make human themes vivid. Thus, his genealogy of fascist thinkers is paired with bitter and evil irony, the pleasure of displaying something that can hardly be made visible: Michael Wutz succeeds in giving language a counterpart: the aesthetic view of the world in his images.