Michaela Konrad

Michaela Konrad

Vienna, Austria

About Michaela Konrad

Michaela Konrad was born in Graz, Austria. she works on her comicArt serials SPACELOVE and and on her serial HOMAGE TO PICASSO since 2003 COMIC merges with FINE ARTS in Michaela Konrad's art. SPACELOVE can be interpreted as a surrealistic, non-narrative comic art serial in best science fiction tradition, full of paraphrases of art history. Spacelove's protagonist is the mysterious blond and geen-eyed cosmonaut Olga, who is searching for answers to the big questions of humanity all on her own. Science - especially the quantum theory and cosmology - as well as philosophy and metaphysical considerations are very important sources of inspiration for Spacelove's motifs and especially for its texts. Spacelove's colour palette ranges from bold and vibrant to pastel shaded colours (applied with strong contrasts), generating different atmospheres for the different episodes. The artist's working techniques include pencil and ink drawing, digital intervention regarding composition and colouring, as well as oil-paintings. Generally all different techniques are applied in order to accomplish one piece of art. Because of its intermedial character, Spacelove has been published in comic books and also been shown in fine art exhibitions. The first presentation of a limited edition of Spacelove comic art books took place in a small Viennese art gallery called "žSimon Arts and Crafts" in 2004. Since then many solo and group exhibitions have followed. When Spacelove's solo show "Comic Impacts Art" was presented in the art museum in Temeswar in October 2008, the Romanian musician and multimedia artist Daniel Dorobantu was invited to enrich the exhibition with a Live performance and music installation called Spacelove. 2010 SPACELOVE becomes a multimedia project with the name MEMORIES OF NOW, a collaboration of Michaela Konrad and the Romanian multimedia artist Daniel Dorobantu. It is permanently shown in the Deep Space of the ARS ELECTRONICA CENTER in Linz (Austria) since march 2011. The DEEP SPACE is Europe's most modern platform for presenting multimedia art in really large dimension (16m x 9m, wall and floor in high definition). So MEMORIES OF NOW became Europe's biggest comic strip.
www.spacelove.at michaelakonrad.blogspot.com

Education:

1994-95 Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo Santa Cruz/Tenerife, Canary Islands; Graphic Arts

1996-99 University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Events:

2013: 21.March-31.December: ON THE BEACH in the Deep Space of
the Ars Electronica Center in Linz/Austria

2012: NextComic 2012 (http://www.nextcomic.org/)
"Memories of Now 3 - Trans Symbol Express" in the Deep
Space of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria

2011: Publication of the ComicArt book "Mondwandler",
publisher Luftschacht Verlag (www.luftschacht.com)
preface: Klaus A. Schröder, Director of the
Albertina museum, Vienna/Austria

2011: "MEMORIES OF NOW 2 - Spirit of the Positron" live at
the ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL in Linz, Austria
( http://www.aec.at/origin/en/2011/08/11/deep-space-
live-memories-of-now/ )

2011: "MEMORIES OF NOW" permanently in the Deep Space of
Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria
www.memoriesofnow.com

2011: publication of “On the Beach“ in the book “Nordpol”
(Tonto#12) www.tonto.at


2010: “MEMORIES OF NOW 1”- for the first time live in the
Electronica Center in Linz, Austria – nextComic


2010: SPACELOVE in "Pechakucha Night" TEA Tenerife -
Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

2010: ICEP- Spacelove in charity auction and exhibition,
Leopold Museum, Vienna

2009: ICEP- Spacelove in charity auction and exhibition,
MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna

2009: publication of SPACELOVE and „On the Beach“ in the
magazin „Umelec“ (in CZ, AT, CH, DE, ES, MEX, USA)

2008: award within the Förderungspreises für Karikatur und
Comics 2008, Austrian Government)

2008: publication of the serial “Spacelove“ in “Perpetuum“
(publisher: Luftschacht www.luftschacht.at)

2006: The Albertina Museum buys 18 silkscreen prints of Space-
love

Exhibitions:

2014: "Memories of Now - Spacelove" in Bukarest, Romania;
individual exhibition

2013: "CONTEMPORARY POP ART" group exhibition, Galerie
Augustin, Vienna/Austria

2013: group exhibition, ayuntamiento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

2011: NextComic Corner, Ursulinenhof Linz, "Mondwandler"

2011: group exhibition, "Los Lavaderos", Santa Cruz de
Tenerife

2011: group exhibition, Centro de
Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz/Tenerife

2010: "SPACELOVE", Centro de
Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz/Tenerife

2010: COMICkunst_2 (group exhibition) in MAERZ
Künstlervereinigung in Linz (Austria)

2010: SPACELOVE in El Graficón (group exhibition), Centro
de Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz/Tenerife

2009: SPACELOVE in Comic „Now“ (group exhibition)
Galerie der Freischaffenden, Vienna

2009: COMICkunst_1 with SPACELOVE / „Homage to Picasso“
(withTommi Kuehberger, Jörg Vogeltanz and T.Ballhausen),
MAERZ Künstlervereinigung, Linz (Austria)

2009: "1. Wiener Comictag with SPACELOVE" (group exhibition)
WUK, Vienna

2009: „PRELUDIO“ (group exhibition),
Sala de Arte Los Lavaderos, Santa Cruz/Tenerife

2008: COMIC IMPACTS ART (individual exhibition)
Museum of Fine Arts, Temeswar (Romania)

2007: "The Vacuum Cleaner/Spacelove" (individual exhibition)
New Gallery of the Brukenthalmuseum, Sibiu (Romania)
(Official event of Europe's Cultural Capital 2007)

2007-08: Different Levels / Kunst im Turm (group exhibition)
M-ars, der Kunstsupermarkt, Vienna