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C. Cornelia Konrads

"Rupture (Lakmé's dream)"

published at 24/01/2019
Rupture (Lakmé's dream), installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © Éric Sander

Cornelia Konrads creates work in situ, usually using materials found in the immediate surroundings so that her works merge with their environment. This subtly developed merging mechanism leaves the viewer with an impression of dislocation in the landscape.

In Cornelia Konrads’ world, stones dance above the ground, branches form unresolved porticos, books are written with brambles and drops of water… Ready to break apart before our eyes, her works are spaces of transition and interrogation, traps capable of raising possibilities and, with luck, awakening the joy of another viewpoint.

Cornelia Konrads is able to breathe motion into what we believed to be inert, infusing us with a kind of magical thinking that enriches our perception.

At Chaumont-sur-Loire, Cornelia Konrads immerses her audience in an extraordinary combination of mineral and vegetable, where plants appear to be raising the venerable brickwork of the Domain’s listed Stables, in a poetic vertigo of stone.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Cornelia KONRADS
GERMANY
 
 
Cornelia Konrads was born in Wuppertal in 1957 and lives and works in Barsinghausen in Germany.
She studied philosophy and cultural sciences before becoming a teacher.
 

In 1998, she finally devoted herself to art, developing impressive installations in situ in public spaces, sculpture parks and private gardens. Whether permanent or ephemeral, they are all very much part of the land art movement, using their natural settings and the materials they provide.

Over the past 20 years, she has continued her tireless journeying across all five continents, creating timeless works for solo and collective exhibitions and during her many residencies.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, COMMISSIONED WORKS AND RESIDENCIES

2018
Commission for Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
Commission for Blackwood Pathways - Sculpture in the Wild, Lincoln, USA
 
2017
Commission for Kunstsammlung ARtBON, Arbon, Switzerland
Biennale delle architetture di paesaggio, Caltagirone, Italy
Ungeklärte Falle (solo exhibition), Kunsthalle Eisfabrik, Hannover, Germany
Buchwelten (group exhibition), Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
 
2016
Cahors Juin Jardins - Festival d‘Art Contemporain, Cahors, France
Set design for the Theatre Production „Tinkers“, by The Only Animal Theatre Society, Vancouver, Canada
Commission Reserva do Ibitipoca, Lima Duarte, Brazil
 
2015
Global Nomadic Art Project India, (Land Art Project), Gujarat, India
Commission for Kunstsammlung ARtBON, Arbon, Switzerland
Commission for Domaine du Rayol, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, France
Commission for Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
From Nature - Organic Sculpture (photo exhibition) Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne, Australia
 Außenraum und Innendinge - Fotos und Objekte (solo exhibition), Galerie Szalc, Bonn, Germany
2014
Commission for Kunstsammlung ARtBON, Arbon, Switzerland
Kunstsommer St. Märgen (sculpture exhibition), ArsAlta Gallery, Freiburg, Germany
Commission for Domaine du Rayol, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, France
Rikuzentakata Artist in Residence. Rikuzentakata City, Iwate, Japan
 
2013
Ephémères - Parcours d‘art contemporain Sud Dordogne (public art exhibition), Couze-Saint-Front, France
Site Specific - International Land Art Biennale, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Private commission, Toronto, Canada
Serenbe Art Institute Residency - Conception of a Public Artwork, Atlanta, USA
 
2012
5. Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Nature et Dérision (Land Art exhibition), Centre d‘Art Contemporain du Luxembourg belge, Montauban, Belgium
Sculpture Space - Artist in Residence, Utica, New York, USA
Pages éparses, 2° édition, livres d‘artiste, Schumm-Braunstein Gallery, Paris, France
 
2011
Commission for Chernobyl 25 - Expeditions, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany
Sculptor on Campus - Visiting Sculptor Program, Cal. State University, Bakersfield, USA
 
2010
Out of Space (Land Art project), Nature Reserve De Rottige Meente, Nijetrijne, The Netherlands
Flugobjekte - International Sculpture Exhibition on the Vineyard Eining, Neustadt a.d. Donau, Germany
Commission Public Artwork for the N8 Cashel - Mitchelston Road, Cahir, Ireland
 
2009
Chemin d‘Art, (Land Art exhibition), Musée d’Art Contemporain, Saint Flour, France
Aomori Contemporary Art Center - Artist in Residence, Aomori, Japan
 
2008
Kielzog - Art in Nature Laboratory (Land Art Exhibition) Waterloopbos, Marknesse, The Netherlands
Horizons - Rencontres Arts Nature (Land Art Project), Installation in Chastreix, Massif du Sancy, France
Objects and Installations (solo exhibition), NordLB art Gallery, Hannover, Germany
Commission for Understory - Art in Nature Trail, Northcliffe, Australia
 
2007
Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Skulpturenlandschaft 2007 (Sculpture exhibition), Verein für neue Kunst TOP.OS, Osnabrück, Germany
Les Territoires Occupés - Arts Plastiques et Monde Agricole (Land Art project), Corbigny, France
I-Park - Artist in Residence, East Haddam, USA
 
2006
Sculptures en Chartreuse - Artist in Residence, Saint Pierre en Chartreuse, France
Commissioned works for Percorso ArteNatura di Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
 
2005
The Floating Land - International Sculpture Exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Australia
Farming with Mary / Land Art Project at the Mary Valley, Cooloola Shire Public Art Gallery, Imbil, Australia
Kamiyama Artist in Residence (KAIR), Kamiyama, Japan
 
2004
Winter-Biennale 2004, Luleå, Sweden
Sentier Art et Nature, Jaujac, France
kunst-stück 2004 - 1st award Public Sculpture, Forum for Art and Architecture, Essen, Germany
SénArt en Forêt (Public Art exhibition), Office Nationale des Forêts, Fontainebleau, France
Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, Korea

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Cornelia Konrads
Rupture (Lakmé's dream), installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © Éric Sander
Rupture (Lakmé's dream), installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © Éric Sander
Rupture (Lakmé's dream), installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2019 - © Éric Sander
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