Diego Castro (artist)

Diego Castro (* 1972 in Hanover as Dirk Diego Schindler-Castro ) is a German - Spanish conceptual and performance artist .

Life

After basic graphic training in Hamburg , studied fine arts in Kiel , Saint-Etienne and Nantes . Critical, Curatorial and Cybermediastudies in Geneva . Since 1995 numerous international exhibitions. 1998 Post-grade international scholarship, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes. 2002 Northwest Art Prize, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven. 2004 Scholarship at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland and in Berlin, Germany.

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Castro works in the media (video) performance, drawing, installation and text. He is also active as a songwriter under the name Folkphantom and singer and songwriter for the band "Die Japaner".

In his earlier work, Castro often dealt with the topics of imitation, epigoneism and forms of failure, be it on concrete role models, on social conditions or on role constructions such as man, artist, young person etc. His video performances in black and white are formally oriented early work in the genre, such as B. from Vito Acconci or Bruce Nauman and also cite some of them. Much of his work has a strong reference to pop culture .

Since 2004 Castro has devoted himself increasingly to political issues and institutional criticism, which manifest themselves in his visual works as well as in publications and at public lectures.

Web links

• Homepage of the artist
• Literature by and about Diego Castro in the catalog of the German National Library
• Diego Castro at Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
• Diego Castro at Berlin Pool
• Profile at Likeyou