Günter Konrad

Fragments get a new code.

„The beauty in art is always true, but the truth is not always pretty.“
- Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel - 1804 - 1861

The transformation of the known,
the inclusion of the unknown
and the composition of opposites.

Konrad‘s series of collages and overpaintings is titled „Covert and discovered history“. Since 2011 he has been combining fragments of famous individual works from art history with his own drawings, spray paintings, sketches and snapshots in graphics and photo programs in this serial work.

On the one hand Konrad goes into the past, searches for art-historical artefacts of high culture from past epochs and on the other hand he works on new, wild, unbridled, analogue and digital image worlds. He liquefies fixed codes and creates a new visual grammar. The aim is to unite opposites and bring them into harmony.

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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

Further exhibitions/fairs/pop-up markets from 2012 to 2026
Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart, Linz, Salzburg, Graz, Pörtschach, Innsbruck, Wels, Mondsee, Leoben, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Klagenfurt, Friedrichshafen, Passau, Obertauern, Feldkirch, Kufstein, Wies, Constance

2015 - Purchase collection Spallart, collection Konrad

Commissioned work since 2015 to 2026
Graz, Munich, New York City, Salzburg, Serfaus, Singapore, Vienna, Zirl, Berlin, Obertauern, Wels, Linz, Graz, Prague, Altaussee, Stuttgart, Klosterneuburg, Schladming, Oberägeri, Dresden, Augsburg, Muggia, Dobl, Tattendorf, Mils

Others:
2004 - Digital stage design, Schauspielhaus Salzburg
2005 - Exhibition at MAK Vienna ( Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art )
2005 - Theater Performance - The Anchorman, Salzburg (Schauspielhaus)
2007 - Videoscreenings in Leipzig, Vienna, Salzburg, Graz, Cologne, Feldkirch
2009 - Interactive Theater Performance - DS Austria, Vienna (Brut)

MILESTONES, EXHIBITIONS, POP-UPS & COMMISSIONED WORKS:

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 o...