Carsten Recksik

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Carsten Recksik (* 1973 in Kronach ) is a freelance German artist and art mediator . He lives and works in London.

Education

After training as a stonemason and stone sculptor, he studied from 2001 to 2002 in the class "Art and Public Space" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg with JP Hölzinger and Georg Winter . In 2003 he switched to Olaf Metzel's class at the Munich Art Academy , where he graduated in 2007 as a master class student. In this context he received the debutant award from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts.

activity

Carsten Recksik initiated and organized a number of different art projects a. a. the non-commercial exhibition space Privatgalerie in Munich (with Inga Charlotte Taubert, 2008–2009), the exhibition New German Art in the German Embassy in London (2010) and "Olaf Breuning - Home" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2013) . As part of the exhibition organization of various commercial galleries and public institutions, he realized projects with well-known artists such as Paul McCarthy , Andreas Gursky , Gilbert & George , Ellsworth Kelly , Christoph Büchel and Pierre Huyghe .

  • Artist-Curator: Diving for Pearls (in your own Soup), Städtische Kunsthalle München / New German Art, German Embassy London / Compact Event Horizon, Kunstbunker Nürnberg / Box Project, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery London / Olaf Breuning - Home 1,2 & 3, Institute of Contemporary Arts London. Modern Art Oxford / Boris Dornbusch, Marie von Heyl, Florian Meisenberg & Tim Wolff at Backlit, Nottingham, UK / Contemporary Turkish Art, European Commission , London
  • Advice for art projects / guerrilla marketing Porsche AG
  • since 2003 member of the international artist group forschungsgruppe-f
  • 2008 Foundation of the non-commercial exhibition space "PRIVATGALERIE" in Munich
  • 1999 founding member of the morphclub in Bamberg
  • Since 2015 co-editor of the international art magazine frieze

Awards / promotions

  • 2009 DAAD travel grant for the USA
  • 2008 working grant from the Kunstfonds Bonn Foundation
  • 2007 Debut funding from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and Art
  • 2005 Funding of the project "catch me! If you can" by the Steiner Foundation
  • 2002 Second prize competition of the Danner Foundation with the project "Where are you going?"
  • 2002 First prize annual exhibition AdbK Nuremberg with the project "Self-study or five days in your own juice"

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personal data
SURNAME Recksik, Carsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronach