Bernd Krauss
Primary Medium: Sculpture
Other media: Film / Video, Performance, Digital web-based, Found material
Neighborhood : West Haven
Email: becell (at) gmx (dot) de
Website: http://berndkrauss.blogspot.com/
Artist Statement
I often work with series of connected, spatial situations and actions that involve almost all conceivable traditional forms of artistic expression: painting, sculpture, drawing, objects, video, photography, performance, etc.
With an interest in stratified levels of creative activity and its varied manifestations, my practice references both the quotidian experience and the endeavours of high culture. While simultaneously embodying the hobbyist and the contemporary artist, I employ traditional craft techniques as well as a conceptualized approach to production.
The opposition between form and content is amplified by an embedding of production into different cultural formats. This may best be understood through my engagement with various cultural institutions in the form of the artist's commission. This collaborative model of production requires an adaptation of identity within the shifting contexts of each institution.
Other media: Film / Video, Performance, Digital web-based, Found material
Neighborhood : West Haven
Email: becell (at) gmx (dot) de
Website: http://berndkrauss.blogspot.com/
Artist Statement
I often work with series of connected, spatial situations and actions that involve almost all conceivable traditional forms of artistic expression: painting, sculpture, drawing, objects, video, photography, performance, etc.
With an interest in stratified levels of creative activity and its varied manifestations, my practice references both the quotidian experience and the endeavours of high culture. While simultaneously embodying the hobbyist and the contemporary artist, I employ traditional craft techniques as well as a conceptualized approach to production.
The opposition between form and content is amplified by an embedding of production into different cultural formats. This may best be understood through my engagement with various cultural institutions in the form of the artist's commission. This collaborative model of production requires an adaptation of identity within the shifting contexts of each institution.
Selected Works
|  PORSCHEFICATION a collection of small video files of Porsche car - 2009 - video - variable  AMERICAN SOLDIER Performance of R.W. Fassbinder's movie - 2009 - performance - variable  VICTORIA´S SECRET - 2009 - chair, table top glass, lids - 36 x 20 x 20  I AM YOURS (the shed as visualisation of Bard College residency) - 2008 - mixed media - 96 x 96 x 70  I AM YOURS:remnants of collaborating w/curatorial students - 2008 - mixed - variable  HELIPORT an accumulating project at CCS BARD residency - 2008 - pine needles - 200 diameter  BLUEROOM: for the exhibition GREENROOM at CCS BARD Hessel Museum - 2008 - bird cage, stones, video footage - 36 x 36 x 20  K-PUNKT: the sculptural part of a fashion project - 2008 - fence material, lamp and clothes - variable  LIBRARY a selection of publications and sculpture - 2008 - publications and turned around sofa chair - variable  OXFORD STREET: @ 7SHOPSAWEEK for THE STREET/WHITECHAPEL GALLERY - 2008 - metal grid system and hair bands - 72 x 48 x 14  PLANETS BARBARA & SANDRA: one pair of cardboard box series - 2006 - cardboard boxes and plexiglass - variable  KAKTUS: a tiny bit of the offers developed for 7SHOPSAWEEK - 2008 - old sneaker and cactus on wall grid - 8 x 14  BARBARA HEPWORTH SALE:celebration/recall one of her 1963 works - 2008 - frotee covered foam - 50 x 30 x 15  FOR THOSE BEHIND THE CURTAINS: solo show GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN - 2007 - mixed - variable  FOR THOSE BEHIND THE CURTAINS: solo show GRAZER KUNSTVEREIN - 2007 - mixed - variable  AVOCADO: sculpture in parking lot of - 2005 - bronze - 4 x 3 x 3 |
Artist Bio
Bernd Krauß
1968 born in Nürnberg
CV
2008 Artist in Residence CCS Bard, Annandale on Hudson
2006 - Present Tutor at Piet Zwart Institute/Rotterdam (MFA)
2005 IASPIS, Stockholm/Schweden
2003 One year Residency Kuenstlerhaeuser, Worpswede
2001 Working Scholarship Kunstfonds, Bonn
2000 One year Residency Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
1998 Scholarship of Berliner Senat
1996/97 Independent Study in London
1990–96 Studies of Applied Cultural Sciences and Aesthetic Practises at University Hildesheim
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Intangibles, Grazer Kunstverein
Andrea Buettner - Fallen Lassen, Kunststiftung Baden Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart
Labyrint 09, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm
2009
Island Keeper/American Soldier, Goethe Institut, New York (PERFORMA 09)
LPHendriks, Rotterdam (G)
Danke an, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin (G)
Draafseminar, P for Performance, ADA, Rotterdam (P)
Ban Sac Va Noi Nhap, Roland Spolaender? University Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi (G)
House Project, Westport Arts Center, Westport (G)
devroegevogelvangtdeworm.blogspot.com, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam (P)
Dear Poughkeepsie, COLUMN: Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie (G)
Rock Opera, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux (G)
2008
Bernd Krauß, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch (S)
“I am Yours“ CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Bildningsresa (Grand Tour) Gustav Adolf, Usedom Lützen (with Nina Svensson)
7shopsaweek, The Street, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Andersens Wohnung (Revisited 1996 - 99), Andersens Contemporary, Berlin
Legends, Le Conseil General, Chamarande
Insidan-ut, Länsmuseet Västernorrland, Harnösand (with Nina Svensson)
(I'm Yours), CCS Bard, Annondale on Hudson
2007
für die hinterm Vorhang leben. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz/Austria. (S)
Worpswunder, Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen (G)
Tension; Sex; Despair – Aber hallo/na und, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (G)
More than this, ”Sustainability check Marieberg” Trondheim Konstakademie/Sundsvall Museum
Bodypolitix, Witte de With, Rotterdam (G)
Trunk - The Nordic Video Festival, Östersund (withNina Svensson)
2006
Gamla Guld, IASPIS, Stockholm
Hinterconti, Hamburg (mit Silke Otto Knapp und Kim Nekada)
Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden, Kunstverein, Graz/Österreich (G)(K)
A world of pleasures to win, Ausstellungsraum 13/2, Wien/Österreich (mit Daria Martin) (K)
Optik Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig (G)
We invite all, Bildmuseet, Umeå (G)
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren, Grazer Kunstverein (G)(K)
Circuit, Lausanne (G)
More than this, ”Sustainability check Marieberg”.Vasa Konsthall (K)
Kurhier, Jodquellenhof, Bad Tölz
40 Jahre deutsche Videokunst, ZKM, K21, Lenbachhaus u.a. (G) (K)
2005
Production as process, Konsthögskolan Umeå/Schweden (S)
Fort Krauss, Galerie Verkligheten, Umeå/Schweden
What happened to Socialdemocracy, Rooseum, Malmö
2004
Der die das Gehülfe, Künstlerhäuser, Worpswede (P)
Sexismus, Rassismus und das Dritte, c/o glue, Berlin (G)
Auratea trifft Männertee, NORDOSTWEIN, Berlin (S)
2003
Skulpturamt/Ablage P – G, Treppenhaus fuer die Kunst, Ministerium, Hannover (G)
Guten Morgen, gute Nacht Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (S)
Balmoral in Berlin, Landesvertretung Rheinland Pfalz/Fruchthalle Kaiserslautern (G)
Der,die,das Gehuelfe, Kuenstlerhaeuser, Worpswede (P)
Total motiviert, Kunstverein, Muenchen (G)
2002
Kulturladen Richard Sorge Str., Kunstmesse Mainz (S)
Payback-Konzert, Pazifik, Berlin (P)
Kuratzkorschule, Galerie Hans Steeger e.V., Zeulenroda/Thueringen (G)
2001
Ein Stueck Societaet, ZKM, Karlsruhe (P)
Der Schattenmann (ARD und ZDF), Videonnale 9, Bonn (P)
New Tirol, painting disorder, Toronto (S)
Einsamer Herr sucht Begleitning, Freilichtbuehne St. Pauli, Hamburg (P)
In Kanada ist keiner da, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin (S)
[(S) = Solo; (P) = Performance; (G) = Group; (K) = Catalogue]