Aglaia Konrad (°1960, Salzburg) roams through cities on all five continents. Through photos, films and installations, she not only focuses on exceptional buildings and the way cities transform, but also on representations of big cities and the role of photography therein.
Aerial photographs of Canada or China alternate with a film about a house in northern Italy and black and white photos of the marble quarries in Carrara. With both older and new work, Aglaia Konrad’s first major solo exhibition shows the diversity of her oeuvre. In one room, she presents the exhibition experiment TOKONOMA, together with Suchan Kinoshita, Olivier Foulon, Jörg Franzbecker, Kris Kimpe, Willem Oorebeek, Eran Schaerf and Walter Swennen. She is also presenting a new work on the façade of Museum M.
Aglaia Konrad (°1960, Salzburg) lives and works in Brussels. She became known by her participation in the documenta X as well as her involvement in an array of meaningful exhibitions dealing with the city as a theme: “Cities on the Move”, 1998 and 1999 in Bordeaux, New York, London, Helsinki, and Vienna, “Metro>Polis”, Brussels 2000, Shanghai Biennale 2000, “Future Cities” in Canada 2004, “KOPIE CITY” in the Kunsthaus Graz 2004, “Spectacular City. Photographing the Future” in NAI - Nederlands Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam / Artforum North Rhein-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, 2006 / 2007. In 1997 the artist was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize of Vienna, in 2003 the Camera Austria Prize of Graz, and in 2007 the Albert-Renger-Patzsch-Prize of the Dietrich Oppenberg Foundation and Photography Collection. Aglaia Konrad is represented by the gaLleries Nadja Vilenne (Liege) and Galerie Raum Mit Licht (Vienna).
Nieuw werk voor de museumgevel
Voor deze solotentoonstelling maakte Aglaia Konrad een nieuw werk voor de museumgevel. Daarnaast plaatst ze in Frauenzimmer een installatie met glas afkomstig van de Brusselse Astro Tower. Dit glas verwijst naar de ironie van de glasarchitectuur die populair was in de jaren 1980. In de laatste zaal brengt ze het tentoonstellingsexperiment TOKONOMA, samen met Suchan Kinoshita, Olivier Foulon, Jörg Franzbecker, Kris Kimpe, Willem Oorebeek, Eran Schaerf en Walter Swennen.
De tentoonstelling 'From A to K' past voor M in de reeks grote monografische tentoonstellingen van kunstenaars, zoals Jan Vercruysse, Philippe Van Snick, Dirk Braeckman, Geert Goiris, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh en Peter Buggenhout.
Aglaia Konrad. From A to K’ loopt van 29 april tot en met 18 september 2016 in M Leuven.
Curator: Eva Wittocx
Aglaia Konrad
Aglaia Konrad
Aglaia Konrad (°1960, Salzburg) lives and works in Brussels. She became known by her participation in the documenta X as well as her involvement in an array of meaningful exhibitions dealing with the city as a theme: “Cities on the Move”, 1998 and 1999 in Bordeaux, New York, London, Helsinki, and Vienna, “Metro>Polis”, Brussels 2000, Shanghai Biennale 2000, “Future Cities” in Canada 2004, “KOPIE CITY” in the Kunsthaus Graz 2004, “Spectacular City. Photographing the Future” in NAI - Nederlands Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam / Artforum North Rhein-Westphalia, Düsseldorf, 2006 / 2007. In 1997 the artist was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize of Vienna, in 2003 the Camera Austria Prize of Graz, and in 2007 the Albert-Renger-Patzsch-Prize of the Dietrich Oppenberg Foundation and Photography Collection. Aglaia Konrad is represented by the gaLleries Nadja Vilenne (Liege) and Galerie Raum Mit Licht (Vienna).
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