Costa amber
Costa Bernstein (born August 5, 1973 as Konstantin Bernstein in Leningrad ) is a Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor .
life and work
Costa Bernstein grew up as the son of a doctor and a teacher in Leningrad. From 1988 he studied there at the Saint-Petersburg College of Architecture and Civil Engineering and graduated in 1992.
When he was nineteen, he moved to Haifa / Israel and took Israeli citizenship. From 1993 to 1997 he studied in Haifa at the private I. Barilov Art School. In 1999 he also trained as a graphic designer in Haifa and has since worked as a freelance artist and lecturer in art.
In 2001 he was appointed lecturer for graphics and composition at the faculty of graphic design at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel , where he taught until 2002.
In 2002, I entered Germany . After two years in Wuppertal , he moved to Frankfurt am Main in 2004 , where he pursues his artistic activity and has been the artistic director of the “Atelier EASTEND” art workshop since 2011.
Brigitta Amalia Gonser ( art historian ) describes in the catalog for the exhibition Künstlerhaus Weinberg und C of the State Museum for Urban Sculptures , Saint Petersburg , Costa Bernstein with the following words: “Costa Bernstein has a striking talent for drawing and has a whole travel archive of paper souvenirs, whose He uses fragments as collage-like elements in his picturesque pictures. In it he combines fiction, narration and figuration with an emphatically expressive style. And the viewer is delightedly lost in a dense web of stories. "
Works by Costa Bernstein are represented in the art collection of the Frankfurt City Hall, the Offenbach “Haus der Stadtgeschichte”, the “GIZ” and in numerous private collections in Germany , Israel , France , the Netherlands , Russia , the USA and Canada .
Exhibitions
- 1997: Exhibition hall “Benjanei Ha'uma”, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1998: Gallery “Carmel”, Haifa, Israel
- 2000: "Dizengoff" gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- 2001: “Hottentot” gallery, Haifa, Israel
- 2003: Jewish Gallery, Berlin, Germany
- 2005: Gallery “Platform Sarai”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2005: Art Association "Art Contemporain au Meix Roblin 'de Gouloux", France
- 2005: Claude Correia's studio, Saulieu, France
- 2006: Eulengasse, Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art and Culture, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2006: Künstlerhaus Kürten, Germany
- 2007: State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2007: Ward Nasse Gallery, New York, USA
- 2007: Eulengasse, Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art and Culture, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2007: Rosenborn-Galerie Künstlerkreis Kelkheim eV, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2007: Gallery “Anja Hannig”, Hilden, Germany
- 2007: Intercultural Stage, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2007: ARTE EM TODA PARTE, Olinda, Brazil
- 2008: Door Gallery, Saint Petersburg
- 2008: Art Foyer Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2008: Eulengasse, Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art and Culture, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2008: Kunstraum Artrium, Bruchköbel, Germany
- 2009: Exhibition “Collages of Everyday Life”, Gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2009: Exhibition “Gegenwelten”, Haus der Stadtgeschichte Offenbach, Germany
- 2010: Gallery “Das Bilderhaus”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2010: Galerie Salon 13, Offenbach, Germany
- 2010: Gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2011: Huntenkunst 2011, Doetinchem, Netherlands
- 2011: GIZ Eschborn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2012: Theater “Die Schmiere”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2012: Huntenkunst 2012, Doetinchem, Netherlands
- 2013: Base, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2013: BKK, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2014: Gallery of the Heussenstamm Foundation, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2015: Gallery “Das Bilderhaus”, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 2015: Galerie Stadthalle Gersfeld (Rhön), Germany
Book illustrations
- Orit Avni-Barron: The Monster Store. With 20 pictures by Costa Bernstein. Children's Books in Hebrew, 2009, Code: SFT-CHL-H-92043
CD cover illustrations
- Album "Creole Spirit" - Barrelhouse Jazzband , Bauer Studios , 2012
Web links
- Costa Bernstein website
- Interview with Costa Bernstein, Jüdische Allgemeine, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Rösmann: Left Popcorn and Count Count. In: FAZ.net . March 24, 2014, accessed October 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.fr.de/rhein-main/collagen-alltags-11542979.html
- ↑ http://www.portalkunstgeschichte.de/kalender/termin/costa_bernstein__martin_hakan_weigl__max_weinberg_____gegenwelten___-5739.html
- ↑ http://www.das-bilderhaus.de/costa-bernstein.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amber, Costa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bernstein, Konstantin (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-Israeli painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th August 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |