Michael Kress

Michael Kress (* 1964 in Munich ) is a German neo-concept artist . He lives in Hamburg.

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In the tradition of conceptual art, Kress draws on its well-known ordering systems, such as writing, naming, symbols or linguistic attributes. On the other hand, he derives his motifs from popular contexts by developing reproducible variants from an isolated pattern, e.g. B. with scrolling the names of film stars (La Video) or for calligraphy lines in exercise books (ruling no.1 - standard extension, 1991). The relationship between individual elements results in a structure which, through repetition, develops norms and promises orientation. Kress draws attention to these structures again and again and finds amazingly simple picture solutions through new combinations, the norms vary without completely giving up them, which would be naive. The development of identity and order, as it is repeated over and over again, for example in the often convulsive practice of writing, he literally turns on its head by writing backwards (left-back-writing, 1990) or the transformation of calligraphic lines into lines of characters (standard extension) . The educational need for calligraphy mutates with Kress to a variation of the line pattern, to a beautiful but meaningless ornament. Rules that solidify into norms and develop their own alienating existence, detached from the meaningful context or use of things, are called into question.

Michael Kress is a member of the German Association of Artists .

Exhibitions (selection)

• "DIS YOUR SELF", Core Project Space, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA / USA, October 2018
• "ADORE / Fans are Artists - Artists are Fans", Zounohana Terrace, Yokohama, Japan, September 2014
• Nishinomiya Funasaka Biennale 2012 , Japan, 2012
• Conversational Art , ZKM , Karlsruhe, November 2010
• Yo Aqaba - With Lawrence and Lennon and the Three Musketeers through the desert in cinema , Landdrostei Foundation, Pinneberg, October 2009
• Artists eat World Banks , Loitz Art Association, Western Pomerania, May 2009
• We call it Hamburg , Kunstverein, Hamburg, October 2008
• Quasi Pinneberg, private , Drostei, Pinneberg, November 2007
• Leisure suit for solo scenes , sidewalks and Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, April 2007
• Styles of the City , Internationales Videoforum, Hamburg, 2006
• Contemporary Gallery, Hamburg, 2004
• halle_für_kunst eV, Lüneburg, 2002
• VideoClub 99, Gallery of the Present, Hamburg, 1999
• AVE-Videofestival / Anrnheim, Netherlands, 1995,
• Sharp look , art and exhibition hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 1995,

Awards

• Willson Center Fellowship, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA / USA, October 2018
• Elbkulturfonds Hamburg 2016, for HyperCulturalPassengers
• Working grant from the State of Schleswig-Holstein, 2009
• Culture Prize of the Pinneberg District , 2007
• German Video Prize 1993 of the ZKM (nom.)
• Marl Video Art Prize , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl 1992 (nom.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Members "K" / Michael Kress (accessed on September 28, 2015)

Web links

• Michael Kress's website