59 x 400 x 51 from Velvet Box
2012, bronze casting, 59 x 42 x 51cm
1973 born in Feldbach
2007 - 2012 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Prof. Zobernig
As a trained art caster, draughtsman and performance artist, Karl Karner often moves on the deconstructivist, surrealist plane. He sees man as a producer of culture, but also as a product of his culture. In the field of tension of the media society, Karl Karner stages the question of what it means to be human and, as a creator of new nodes, provides an irritating, deformed counter-world.
"The overall appearance of the sculpture seems abstract throughout, as the result of a proliferation, a growth whose closest analogies we find in nature itself, for example in the form of a coral reef. Nevertheless, reference should be made to the creative influence of the artist, whose signature materially condenses into sculpture: a sculptural approach that defies the classical term." Florian Steininger
Exhibition view galerie gölles Karl Karner
UUIP, 2019, aluminium, lacquer, silicone, 160 x 90 x 100 cm
KRA
2019, aluminium, spray paint, 32 x 44 x 36 cm
Ausstellungen
2008
'Karl Karner died on', St. Andrä Church, Graz
2009
Karl Karner, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague
2011
'Alan Grünspan', Gallery Dana Charkasi, Vienna
2012
Black Sea Calling, Baku, Azerbaijan
2013
Christian Eisenberger | Karl Karner
Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
Karl Karner | Christian Eisenberger
Maecenas, Helmut List Hall, Graz
2014
'FakeFukoo', Gallery ABContemporary, Zurich; 'Formatting a New Era', Lisabird Contemporary, Vienna
2016
Anna Paul and Karl Karner, Gallery ABContemporary, Zurich
2019
Karl Karner | Constantin Luser, Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
GROUP EXHIBITIONS Selection
2010
'Grand Slam', Büro Adalbert, Berlin, Triennale Linz 1.0, Lentos Museum, Linz
2011
Cardinal König Art Prize, Salzburg
2012
Colombo Art Biennale, Sri Lanka, 'Parallelaktion', uniCredit Kunstraum am Viktualienmarkt, Munich
2013
'Jenseits des Sehens', Admont Monastery Collection
2014
'WHITE FOR', Xing, Bologna
2015
'Dice', Tanzquartier, Vienna