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Karsten Konrad

German sculptor (born 1962) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Karsten Konrad (born 1962) is a German sculptor known for his abstract works that explore themes including identity, memory, materiality, structuralism, linguistics, as well as urbanity and urbanism.[1][2]

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Karsten Konrad studied art at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz[3], sculpture at Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and the Royal College of Art in London during the late 1980s, where he studied under English sculptor David Evison and Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović.[4]

Konrad's sculptures often incorporate found materials such as discarded furniture, mechanical objects and architectural elements.[5] Konrad creates sculptures using everyday items, transforming them into installations, reliefs and collages - a process described by critics as an "archaeology of the present."[6][7][8]

His work has been exhibited in museums and institutions across Europe, North America and Asia,[9] including the Esbjerg Art Museum, the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Helsinki Art Museum and the Berlinische Galerie.[10] In 2012, Konrad was awarded the Great Prize of the 53rd Belgrade October Salon for a site-specific art intervention at the Geozavod (Belgrade Cooperative Building, 1907).[11]

From 2010 to 2013, Konrad held academic positions at the Berlin University of the Arts and the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Since 2016, he has been a full professor at the Sculpture Department of the University of the Arts in Berlin.[12]

He has lived and worked in Berlin since 1993.[13]

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Private and public collections

Bundeskunstsammlung Archived 2014-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
MoCA Belgrade
IfA Stuttgart / Berlin

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