Karsten Konrad
geb. 1962 in Würzburg
lebt in Berlin
1984-85
Kunststudium an der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Fachbereich Kunsterziehung
1986-92
Studium der Freien Plastik an der HdK Berlin bei David Evison und
Marina Abramovic
1991
Royal College of Art, London
1992
Meisterschüler bei David Evison
1993-94
London-Stipendium des Senats Berlin
2000
Preis der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
2001
Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats für Kultur
2003
Katalogförderung der Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung
und Kultur, Berlin
2010 -2013
Gastprofessor für Bildhauerei, Universität der Künste, Berlin
2012
Preis des 53. Oktobersalons, Belgrad, Serbien
2013
Gastprofessur, CDK, Hangzhou, China
2015
Gastprofessur, CDK, Hangzhou, China
seit 2016/17 Professur für Bildhauerei, Universität der Künste, Berlin
About
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«.
For more than 20 years his work has been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout Europe, North-America, and Asia. For example, in autumn of 2012 he was awarded with the Great Prize of the 53rd Belgrade October Salon for his site-specific intervention at the Geozavod / Belgrade Cooperative-building (1907).
Between 2010–2013 he has been professor at Universität der Künste Berlin and the China Academy of Art Hangzhou.
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.
He lives and works in Berlin.