Henrik Schrat

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Henrik Schrat

Henrik Schrat (born March 25, 1968 in Greiz ) is a German artist.

Life

Schrat studied painting and stage design from 1991 to 1998 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts . From 2000 to 2002 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London , the art school of University College London , where he graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). In 2011 he received his doctorate at the Business School , Management Department, University of Essex with a thesis on the possibilities of comics in an organizational context (original title Comic and its potential in organizational context ).

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Schrat works with various forms of visual storytelling. He draws on popular stories from fairy tales to Starship Enterprise in order to use them as metaphors for contemporary issues. This results in complex and ambiguous narratives that like to be humorous, but can become snappy at second glance. Schrat has shown particular interest in economic contexts, which he understands as cultural material that the artist has to transform in order not to take on the role of a victim of capitalism.

In the orbit of Mars, Wernher von Braun leaves the rocket in 2015, Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund

In addition to forms close to illustrations and graphic novels, large-format murals are a main area of ​​his work. The murals are consistently executed as silhouettes and thus cite a historicizing form that is charged with contemporary. (e.g. Milk & Honey, Casino of the Jakob Kaiser House in the German Bundestag, 2004; In the Orbit of Mars ... 'in Das mechanical Corps , HMKV Dortmund, 2015)

Detail: Ares / Mars, 2015, different veneers

A comparable mechanism results from work cycles that are executed in traditional craft techniques and pre-defined image formats, and work with their strong cultural connotation. So are z. B. inlaid works emerged, the extremely slow and non-reproducible production Schrat understands as subversive. Several cycles were created in collaboration with Indian inlay tailors, such as the 92-part work 'Outsourcing' (2008) which is owned by the Berlinische Galerie. The cycle 'Orangerie bei Nacht' (2016) again draws on Asian ink painting to unfold a science fiction story in picture scroll format.

Henrik Schrat is a member of the German Association of Artists .

honors and awards

Exhibitions

Since 1995 exhibitions and projects at home and abroad.

Selection:

  • Orangery by night , Galerie Karin Sachs , Munich, 2017
  • Transformation; (Mural) in: Boys and their Toys , Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin, 2015
  • Heart of Darkness, spoiled. Jena Art Collection , 2014
  • The journey to the West. Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf, 2013
  • Report on Probability B . IMT Gallery, London, 2012
  • Ravens & Roses . Werkleitz Festival; Hall, 2011
  • Knife, fork grappling hook . Van der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, 2009
  • Simeliberg . Museum of Young Art , Frankfurt / Oder, 2009
  • Meatcandy (mural) in: Eat the food , Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, 2008
  • Intention to tan and withdrawal symptoms , Forum Ludwig, Aachen, (Double Wall Projects) 2006

Works (selection)

  • 2000: The appearance of the fantasy installation in the large trading hall of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2002: Feeding Back , project of the Slade School of Fine Art, London, as manager in residence accompanied by an economic manager during his residency at the school.
  • 2003: Milch & Honig , mural in the casino of the Jakob Kaiser House of the German Bundestag in Berlin (courtesy seven-hair art projects).
  • 2006: The Swarm , installation at GASAG , Berlin.
  • 2008: In the Black Forest , stage design, Theater Baden-Baden
  • 2011: Trip of three parts , painting of the Vogtlandhalle in Greiz.
  • 2011: Chiron, mural / films / mobiles at the so-called ZEITHAUS, Volkswagen - Autostadt , Wolfsburg .
  • 2014 The Naumburg nuclear fusion , architecture and environmental house Naumburg, project of the new client

Publications

Books / magazines
  • Culture & Ghosts No. 17; Ding Ding ding; 140 pages of illustrations 'Lust and Necessity' Verlag Textem, Hamburg, 2016, ISBN 978-3-941613-96-6
  • Wild things are going to happen. Catalog / graphic novel based on texts by Dan Graham; 140 p .; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2013
  • Sophie Tieck : Belinde. Three fairy tales , pictures by Henrik Schrat, edited by Renate Siebenhaar. Insel-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-458-19371-5 .
  • Refined survival, strategies in art and economy , (ed. With Mari Brellochs) Kadmos Kulturverlag Berlin, 2005 ISBN 978-3865990099
Artist book
  • The Seer's Face: Texts from the older Edda . Dresden 1989.
  • Raven and writing desk . Dresden 1991
  • Eternal spaces Fast insects . Dresden 1992
Catalogs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "S" / Henrik Schrat (accessed on January 31, 2016)
  2. ↑ But then came the big fear in FAZ from December 19, 2013, pages R1 to R8
personal data
SURNAME Schrat, Henrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and stage designer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz , GDR