Artists
Karsten Konrad
Born in 1962. A sculptor.
Born and raised in the Western part of Germany, he often refers his sculptures and models to the socialist modernity whose architecture is interesting for him as a medium of utopian, idealistic ideas, but also as a phenomenon so undeservedly ignored in Western Europe.
Konrad reconstructs constructual situations, once important for a certain location at a certain time – be it as distinctive part of the history of architecture or an expression of a certain social climate.
As for material, he uses remnants of deconstructed furnishings of the ‘70s and findings from the rubble of destroyed buildings thus giving his models a vivid expression. Most of the architecture is known to the artist from his own experience and they are easily recognisable for the viewer, for example the ensemble of Prager Strasse in Dresden from the project Stadtplaners Workshop (City Planner’s Workshop).