Karsten Konrad
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Karsten Konrad (born 1962) is a German abstract sculptor.
Biography
[edit]Having studied at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and at the Royal College of Art in London in the late 1980s both under English sculptor David Evison and Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramović, his reoccurring themes are Identity and Memory, Material and History, Structuralism and Linguistics, as well as Urbanity and Urbanism.[1]
For more than 20 years, his work has been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout Europe, North-America, and Asia. In 2012, he was awarded the Great Prize of the 53rd Belgrade October Salon, for his site-specific intervention at the Geozavod / Belgrade Cooperative-building (1907).[2]
Between 2010 and 2013 he was professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and the China Academy of Art Hangzhou.[3]
Sculpture for Konrad is an unerring instrument of analysis in order to examine and inspect our reality. Archaeologically, he digs out the buried hopes and modernist utopias inscribed in discarded commodities, furniture, machines, and architectures. In a kind of modernist house clearing, he surveys a future that was – art history (e.g. Smith, Caro, Stella) as well as the social dreams located covertly in articles of daily use – for its contemporary capability; thus, relocating it into our very own present.[4][failed verification]
He lives and works in Berlin.
Solo exhibitions
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2014
- Silver Convention, Diehl Cube, Berlin
- Silence and Outbreak (with Jens Wolf), Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf
2013
- Aldo's House, Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf
- South by Southwest, Galerie Anja Rumig, Stuttgart
- Wohnungsaufloesung, Pablo's Birthday, New York
2012
- Elegantly wasted (with Markus Eek), Landskrona Konsthall, Landskrona
2011
- Gutterpearls, Galerie Pablo's Birthday, New York
- Ultramöbel (with Jan Mioduszewski), Polnisches Kulturinstitut, Berlin
2010
- Standing on the never never (with Torben Giehler), Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus
- Zuspiel, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- Material boys (with Henrik Eiben), Pablo's Birthday, New York
2009
- World of Woodcraft, loop – raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin
2008
- Karsten Konrad, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2007
- Zigzag Zürich, Arndt & Partner, Zurich
2006
- Escultura, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
2005
- Karsten Konrad, Galerie Rehbein, Köln
2004
- Karsten Konrad, Galerie Kapinos, Berlin
- Baptisterium, Future 7, Berlin
2002
- Archeologica industriale, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Haus, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
2001
- Mikadoreflex (with Achim Kobe), Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
2000
- Architypes, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
- Berlin 563 km, Galerie der Stadt Mainz
1998
- Surplus, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
1997
- Poelzig‘s Hovercraft, Volksbühne, Berlin
- Softdock, Soma, Berlin
- Halfloop, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Karsten Konrad‚ Johnson & Johnson Fine Arts, Berlin
1996
- Galatasaray Tanzkulübü, Mysliwska, Berlin
- TwinTrier, Kunstverein Trier
1995
- Minotaurussandwich, Kunsthalle Moabit, Berlin
1994
- Karsten Konrad, Museum of Installation, London
Group exhibitions
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2015
- Wo ist hier? # 2: Raum und Gegenwart, Kunstverein Reutlingen
2014
- Stahlskulptur in Deutschland, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen
- Sieben, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
- Bielefeld contemporary, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld
- Sammlung Florian Peters-Messer, Kunsthaus Potsdam
- Good taste, hopefully, Alexander Ochs, Berlin
- About sculpture, Lady Fitness, Berlin
- Bento Box, Galerie Anja Rumig, Stuttgart
- Psycho Killer, qu'est-ce que c'est, Galerie Börgmann, Monchengladbach
- Sand in Vaseline, Black Market, Berlin
2013
- Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Ankäufe 2007–2011, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
- Bogota, Hotel Bogota, Berlin
- le’Oiseau present: 2,3 bis 3D, Ballhaus, Berlin
- Black Market, Stockholm
- Grötzinger – Konrad – Schwarzwald, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin
- Hit and run – Klasse Karsten Konrad, Kulturforum Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock
- Abstract possibilities, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm
- Differenz und Wiederholung, Galerie Knut Hartwich, Sellin
- Alles Wasser, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
2012
- 53rd October Salon: Good Life – Physical Narratives and Spatial Imaginations, Belgrade
- Robert Jacobsen up to date, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg
- Hinterland, Arch 402, London
- Apes presents, Diehl, Berlin
- Es gibt ... There is ..., b-05, Montabaur
- Abstract confusion, Kunsthalle Erfurt
- le Trac, Frontviews Gallery, Berlin
- Tysk Var, Galerie Britt Arnstedt, Östra Karup
- Abstract confusion, Neue Galerie Gladbeck
- Kaleidoscope, Patrick Heide, London
2011
- 1st Bosnia and Herzegovina Biennale of Contemporary Art: No Network, D-0 ARK, Konjic
- Abstrakt////Skulptur, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin
- Abstract confusion, Kunstverein Ulm
- Simply the best, loop – raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin
- Sommergäste, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
- Licht, Luft, Liebe, Potsdam
- Abstract confuseon, b-05, Montabaur
2010
- A Gathering of the Tribes, Universität der Künste, Berlin
- Realstadt – Wünsche als Wirklichkeit, Kraftwerk Mitte, Berlin
- Horizonte, Altes Museum Neukölln, Berlin
- Barbar, Appartement, Berlin
- Changing the World, Arndt, Berlin
- Black / White, T27, Berlin
2009
- Axis: Bold as Love, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
- Zeigen. Eine Audiotour, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
- Berlin 2000, PaceWildenstein, New York
- Berlin 89/09. Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
- Echo-ecology, Shinan, Guangzhou
- News from the Studio, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
- Neue Deutsche Skulptur, Upstairs, Berlin
- Indecent Exposure, loop – raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin
2008
- 30 gegen 3.000.000 – Malerei und Skulptur aus Berlin, Kulturforum Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock
- Refraction, loop – raum für aktuelle Kunst
2007
- Neuer Konstruktivismus, Kunstverein Bielefeld
- Changing Spaces, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg
- We love Kylie, loop – raum für aktuelle Kunst
- Sublime: Experiences and Perceptions in Contemporary Sculpture, Parra & Romero, Madrid
2006
- Talking Cities, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
- Shift / Scale, Kumu Artmuseum, Tallinn
- Happy Hour, Galerie Stefan Rasche, Münster
- Special Space, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2005
- The Addiction, Gagosian Gallery Berlin
- km 0, Museo del Artes, Santa Cruz
- Situated Self, Tennis Palace art Museum, Helsinki
- Cosmic Logic, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
- Was wäre, wenn, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
- Galerie Kapinos, Berlin
- Toronto in Berlin, loop- raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Situated Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
2004
- Konstruktion | Statik, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
2003
- Sampler, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Das Atmen der Stadt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
- Modern Islands, Projektraum, Dresden
2002
- EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
- Urbane Sequenzen, Kunsthalle Erfurt
- reloop, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Sub-Urbane Modelle, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz / Tirol
2001
- Berlin_London_2001, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- Quobo, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
- Utopien heute, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
- Modell | Skulptur, NBK, Berlin
2000
- Luggage, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
- Randori, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Satellit, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
- Surface, Kunstforum, Munich
- Forty minus One, Duende Activiteiten, Rotterdam
- Unsquare Dance, Eigen+Art, Leipzig
- Mysliwska, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1999
- Sechzehn Räume, Berlin 1999, loop – raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Untitled, Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf
1998
- Sehen sehen '98, loop - raum für aktuelle kunst, Berlin
- Misbits, Galerie Fricke, Berlin
- Ceterum Censeo, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin
1995
- Archive, Museum of Installation, London
1994
- Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Private and public collections
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ifa - Deutsche Kunst im Ausland - Künstler-Architekten-Datenbank". Archived from the original on 2016-01-07. Retrieved 2014-11-28.
- ^ http://voiceofserbia.org/de/content/kulturchronik-19 as well as http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/fundsachen/7211090.html
- ^ http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/content/zielgruppen/presse/pressemitteilungen/archiv/2012/gute_karten__stipendiaten_und_preistraeger_der_jahre_2010_bis_2011_der_udk_berlin_zeigen_arbeiten_im_haus_am_kleistpark__vernissage_26_januar_2012/index_ger.html
- ^ "Home: Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter - Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter".
External links
[edit]- Official website: karstenkonrad.de
- Pablo's Birthday, New York
- Arndt Berlin / Singapore
- Diehl Cube, Berlin
- Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf
- October Salon Belgrade
See also
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