Günter Konrad

Fragments get a new code.

The best subversion is to disfigure codes
instead of destroying them.
see - Roland Barthes -

In my artistic work I am talking about the ongoing change, connection and communication between the inner and outer worlds, and about the inevitable bond between art and human life in general. I feel drawn to the tension between opposites, the grey areas between black and white, the confusion and contemplation, stereotypes and prejudice.

Décollages - ripped or lacerated posters - are part of everyday aesthetics. In their wildness, rejection can be deciphered -
a manifestation of the spontaneous and direct expression. Artists like Raymond Hains and Jacques Villeglé recognized the quality of this un-conventional form of art. I try to transform this method into our contemporary digital age.

I‘m currently working on a series of digital décollage and digital overpaintings titled „covert and discovered history“.
Here I merge digitalized, famous single works of art history with my own photographs of anonymous, collective decollages, tags and urban fragments. In the melting pot of bits and bytes I liquefy the contrasting codes and add them together to a new whole. On the one hand you have the art historical...

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Born:
Leoben, Austria 1976

Education:
2001 - 2005 Multimediaart, FH Salzburg

Degree:
Magister (FH) for artistic and creative professions

Current:
lives and works in Salzburg

Milestones:
1999 - First exhibition (Leoben - A journey to nowhere and back)
2001 - Experiments with décollages and spray paintings
2002 - Cut-outs and rip-it-ups (Décollage) of billboards
2005 - Photographic documentation of décollages
2006 - Overpaintings of décollages
2007 - Photographic documentation of urban fragments
2008 - Décollage on furniture and lighting
2009 - Photographic documentation of tags and urban inscriptions
2010 - Combining décollages and art historical paintings
2011 - First exhibition "covert and discovert history" in Graz (exhibition hall)
2012 - And ongoing exhibitions and pop-ups in Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart,
| Pörtschach, Wels, Mondsee, Leoben, Augsburg, Nürnberg,
2015 - Purchase collection Spallart
2016 - And ongoing commissioned artworks in Graz, Munich,
| New York City, Salzburg, Serfaus, Singapore, Vienna, Zirl
2017 - Stuttgart, Innsbruck, Linz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg, Passau and many others ...
2018 - Pop-up exhibitions Augsburg, Friedrichshafen, Innsbruck, Linz, Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg, Passau, Stuttgart, Obertauern
commissioned artworks in Linz, Graz, Vienna, Tyrol, Salzburg
2019 Pop-up exhibitions Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Feldkirc...