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03. Cornelia Konrads

"Passage"

published at 23/02/2017
Passage, installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander

Cornelia Konrads creates permanent or temporary site-specific installations. Whatever the materials used (wood, stone or brick for example) - usually gathered on-site - the structures seem to dissolve and fall apart before our very eyes. This is the case for The Gate, a mind-boggling installation set up in 2004 in Fontainebleau Forest. The stones seem to hang, weightless, in mid-air as they crumble away from the existing stonework of a doorway worn down with age. The effect stops you in your tracks, catching you completely by surprise. In 2007, Konrads conjured up a slender and astonishing installation in a forest in Osnabrück, Germany (Skulpturenlandschaft), made from branches and wire. In 2001, "Le Vent Des Forêts" (Lorraine), an open-air contemporary art centre, housed one of her sculptures: Rising fall… Now no more than a memory, this piece at one time showcased an "endless" display of swirling twigs dancing in the air ... Cornelia Konrads' silent exhibits monopolise your attention and shake your sense of sureness. The past few years have seen her dot ever more of these transitional, challenging spaces around the world - creating intermediate moments of instability.

“I like this idea of showing that there is something invisible to be found in the visible. I like to awaken the joy of thinking about possibilities, about what might be. […] What I'm most interested in is order and chaos. The visible and invisible. The material and immaterial. And I don't see them as contradictions. They're like poles that are in everything. I like moments of amazement and irritation. On the whole when we look, we don't see. We wander in a sort of monologue with ourselves. This irritation and amazement shake us out of this mental drowsiness.” Cornelia Konrads

Cornelia Konrads creates permanent and temporary site-specific installations. With materials, branches and twigs she collects on-site, Cornelia has designed this Passage, which leads us towards mysterious and poetic destinations.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Cornelia KONRADS
GERMANY

 
Born in 1957 in Wuppertal, Cornelia Konrads lives and works in Barsinghausen, Germany. She studied philosophy and cultural sciences.
Cornelia Konrads develops the most extraordinary site-specific installations in public venues, sculpture parks and private gardens. Permanent or temporary, they can be qualified as Land Art.
Since 1998, she has been carrying out various projects abroad, particularly in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia, South Korea, Taïwan and Japan.
In 2014, she took part in an artist-in-residence programme in Rikuzentakata (Iwate Prefecture, Japan).
She has published several books including: “Places/Cornelia Konrads“, Ed. Freiburg, Br.: Modo-Verl, 2007; “In situ. Cornelia Konrads“, Site Specific Sculpture 2007-2011, 2012.

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EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2015
Außenraum und innendinge-landartfotos und objekte, Szalc Gallery, Bonn, Germany
Pergola, Domaine du Rayol—  Le Jardin des Méditerranées, Rayol-Canadel-Sur-Mer, France
Intérieur en Passant and Passage, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, Centre  for Arts and Nature, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
From Nature. Organic Sculpture Exhibition 2015 (Photo exhibition,) Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne, Australia
 
2014
Blooming Marvelous: Kelly Jones, Cornelia Konrads, Nick Knight, Kelly Merchant (Photo / group exhibition), New York, USA
Rikuzentakata Artist in Residency Program, Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
Fuenf 14, (Group exhibition), Ateliergemeinschaft Neunzig°, Kiel, Germany
Jardin en Movement, Domaine du Rayol, Le Jardin des Méditerranées, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, France
 
2013
Private commission for the Saanewald Lodge Hotel, Gstaad, Switzerland
Les Rives de l’Art and ArtCatalyse, Ephémères – Parcours d‘art contemporain, Couze-Saint-Front, France
International Land Art Biennale 2013, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
Private commission, Toronto, Canada
Serenbe Art Institute Residency, conception of a Public Art work, Atlanta, USA
 
2012
Tell's haus / Verwachsung, Schweizerische Triennale der Skulptur, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Le Bol, Nature et Dérision, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Luxembourg belge, Site de Montauban, Belgium
Wall Piece, Sculpture Space, Artist in Residence, Utica, USA
 
2011
Zone, Chernobyl 25, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany
Knotty Stilts, Sculptor on Campus, Visiting Sculptor, California State University, Bakersfield, USA
 
2010
The Settlement, N8 Cashel, Cahir, Ireland
Floating Islands, Thanatopolis Memorial Park, I-Park, East Haddam, USA
Schleudersitz, Flugobjekte — International Exhibition on the Vineyard in Eining, Neustadt a.d.  Donau, Germany
Enclosure, Out of Space — International Sculpture Project, Nature Reserve De Rottige Meente, Nijetrijne, Netherlands
 
2009
Artist in Residence, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan
I-Park, East Haddam, USA
 
2009
Chemin d'Art, Festival d'art contemporain St. Flour, France
Buchobjekte, Kunstverein Wedemark, Germany
 
2008
Australia House, Southern Forest Sculpture  Walk, Northcliffe, Australia
Concept for a cemetery wall, I-Park, East Haddam, USA
Salon Salder 08, annual group exhibition, Salzgitter, Germany
Motherbird, Installations and Objects, solo exhibition in the NordLB art gallery, Hannover, Germany
Still Life with Tree, Horizons, Arts Nature en Sancy, France
Het tocht / Es zieht, Kielzog, Art in Nature  Laboratory, Waterloopbos, Marknesse, The Netherlands
 
2007
Red Pavillon, Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Taipeh, Taiwan
 
2006
Onda and Piled Forest, Il Percorso ArteNatura di Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
Staubraum, Symposium Weinstetter Hof, Freiburg, Germany
Le Mur, Sculptures en Chartreuse, Artist in  Residence, St. Pierre en Chartreuse, France
 
2005
Ascention and Floating Surface, KAIR, Artist in Residence, Kamiyama, Japan
The Floating Land, International Sculpture Project, Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Australia
Billabong Memory, Artworks on Farmland, Cooloola Shire Public Gallery, Gympie, Australia
Dreamstone Lines, Salt of the Earth—Landart Projects, Avon Valley Arts Society, Northam, Australia
Hommage an das Oberfeld, Land Art Projekt, Darmstadt, Germany
 
2004
Pile of Wishes, Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Gongju, South Korea
The Gate, SénArt en Forêt, Office Nationale des Forêts, Fontainebleau, France
Still Life, kunst-stück Viehofer Platz, Forum for Art and Architecture, Essen, Germany
Intérieur en Passant, Chemin d‘Art, Jaujac, France
Moment of Decision, Winter-Biennale 2004, Luleå, Sweden
 
2003
Remember next Spring, Geumgang International Nature Art Exhibition, Gongju, South Korea
Zeitzeuge Holz, Woodsculpture Symposium, Eppstein, Germany
 
2002
Grass Works, StandOrte, 12. Kunsttage Dreieich, Municipal Gallery Dreieich, Germany
Twilight Passage, La Fête de Mai, Forest Art Track, Mozet, Belgium
 
2001
Artist in Residence, Fyens Billedhugger Vaerksteder, Odense, Denmark
KunstLandschaft, Open Air Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
Rising Fall, Les Vents des Forêts, Sentier d‘Art en Paysage, Lahaymeix, France
Stipendium Stiftung Kulturfonds, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, Germany
Defence, Binnen Art—A Sculpture for the Lowerrhine-Landscape, Kevelaer, Germany
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Passage, installation de Cornelia Konrads au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire - © Éric Sander
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