Daniel Kojo Schrade

Daniel Kojo Schrade (* 1967 in Rail now Öhningen ) is a German artist (painting, performance).

Life

From 1987 to 1993 Daniel Kojo Schrade studied both at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Jürgen Reipka and at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the University of Castile-La Mancha , Cuenca (Spain) . Schrade has been Professor of Painting at Hampshire College in Amherst (Massachusetts) USA since 2008 . In 2010 he was visiting professor at the University of Bayreuth . Daniel Kojo Schrade lives in Amherst (USA) and Munich.

Act

"Afronaut" is the title of a series of pictures that Daniel Kojo Schrade began in 1999. Before “Afronaut” there were other groups of works in whose titles Schrade also made direct references to African cultural areas or defined an intercultural position, such as “Brother Beethoven”, “Made in Diaspora” and “Stop Look Listen”.

Public collections

• Museum in the Ritterhaus , Offenburg
• Bavarian State Painting Collection
• Morat Institute Freiburg
• Goethe Institute Accra, Ghana
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca, Mexico
• University of Bayreuth, IWALEWA house
• Mead Art Museum Amherst, USA
• Solomon-Kiefer Collection Philadelphia, USA

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Kojo Schrade in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile on the website of the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College (English)
• Homepage of Daniel Kojo Schrade
• Further information and pictures about Daniel Kojo Schrade

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ias.uni-bayreuth.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , University of Bayreuth.  
2. ↑ Jochen Meister: Between icon and eidos . In: "Afronauts", Galerie Schrade Karlsruhe 2007.
3. ↑ Thomas Huber: The black in the eye of the beholder . In: Afronaut. Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich , 2004.