Michael Kruscha

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Michael Kruscha (born August 30, 1961 in Hoyerswerda ) is a German painter and photographer .

Phoenix - Landart Installation, Welzow Süd opencast mine, 2011

life and work

Michael Kruscha lives and works in Berlin. From 1999 to 2001 he worked and studied at Daniel Fischer (Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava ).

Kruscha works as a painter and photographer. Since 1990 he has undertaken several project trips a. a. to Almaty in Kazakhstan , to Nazca in Peru or Sanaa in Yemen, from which thematic work cycles emerged. The series Pueblo was created after a visit to the Indian regions in southwest North America . The content of his painting are objects and impressions of his travels and everyday life. These are often highly abstracted or reduced. The superimposition of image planes and graphic and geometric structures are characteristic. Furthermore, the overlaying of colored areas and symbols.

Since 2011, a new complex of topics has emerged in the Kruschas plant in Lusatia , namely the opencast mine landscapes and their transformation. One work on this theme is Dance of the Phoenix , which he created with the sculptor Ines Diederich . This installation in the Welzow-Süd opencast mine accompanied the “Paso doble” exhibition at the Geisendorf manor . During the installation, a phoenix caught in a wooden sculpture went up in flames - and rose out of it. Kruscha thus opened up the installation as an additional means of expression.

His photography is described in such a way that it shows the direct world in an abstract way. Implemented with a painterly element. Over a period of twelve years, the long-term photographic project Bus Stops was created in various places around the world .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Pictures of a landscape , Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, Klagenfurt, 2020
  • time stands still , San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, 2019
  • images of a landscape , Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, 2019
  • scado , Lausitz Art Collection, Museum Senftenberg, 2018
  • in the middle of nowhere , Kalo Gallery, Tirana, 2016
  • Brandenburg Art Prize , Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation, 2016
  • elsewhere , municipal collections, Museum der Westlausitz Kamenz, 2015
  • around you- Ostrale `014 , International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Dresden, 2014
  • in the middle of nowhere , Galerie Tengri Umai, Almaty, 2013
  • Dance of the Phoenix , installation in the Welzow Süd open-cast mine, Gut Geisendorf, in collaboration with Ines Diederich, 2011
  • Offside - four artistic positions, Badisches Kunstforum, Freiburg, 2010
  • Paso doble , with Ines Diederich, plastic objects, Gallery IPP at the Max Planck Institute, Greifswald, 2010
  • Locomotion , with Bruno Beratti, kinetic objects, Galerie im Griesbad, Ulm, 2010
  • Pueblo , Sheriban Turkmen Gallery, Berlin, 2009
  • Modern mobility , Art Prize 2008, Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, 2008
  • Results 2000 , Palais Wittgenstein, Vienna, 2000
  • Time Warp 99 , Salle de Bal, Vienna, 1999

Publications and catalogs

  • Upheaval and permanence - Lausitz Art Collection after 1990 , ed. v. Art collection Lausitz, ISBN 978-3-942694-37-7
  • Pictures of a Landscape , 2019, published by the Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art Koroska, Slovenj Gradec, Museum Moderner Art Klagenfurt, Foundation for the Sorbian People, ISBN 978-3-7420-2560-9
  • 848- Kunstraum Braugasse , 2018, ed. v. Michael Kruscha, Kunstraum Braugasse, ISBN 978-3-00-060758-5
  • Art + Coal , 2018, publisher Paul Kaiser, Sächsische Industriemuseen
  • elsewhere , 2016, Kamenz Municipal Collections, ISBN 978-3-910046-634
  • Broken Landscapes , 2016, publisher Sören Fischer, Dresden, ISBN 978-3-00-053986-2
  • Brandenburg Art Prize 2016 , published by the Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation, Märkische Oderzeitung, 2016
  • Bus stops , ed. v. Michael Kruscha, texts by Marina Linares and Frauke Hunfeld, seltmann + söhne Verlag, Lüdenscheid 2015, ISBN 978-3-944721-52-1 .
  • Around you-Ostrale`014 , published by Ostrale- Center for Contemporary Art Dresden, 2014
  • Michael Kruscha, Ines Diederich: Paso doble , text by Marina Linares Kulturforum Geisendorf, 2011
  • Michael Kruscha, Ines Diederich: Dance of the Phoenix , Gut Geisendorf- Kulturforum der Lausitzer Braunkohle, 2011
  • Michael Kruscha: About Nazca and other flights of thought , 2003

Awards

  • German Photo Book Prize 2018 in bronze, Bus Stops, category "Conceptual-Artistic", University of the Media, Stuttgart, 2017

Web links

swell

  1. Catalog for the exhibition Paso doble , Gut Geisendorf 2011
  2. Baden Art Forum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marina Linares (art historian): Urban Flow , 2010
  2. ↑ Fire after the dance , Lausitzer Rundschau, May 7, 2011
  3. ↑ Marina Linares (art historian): Bus Stops , 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kruscha, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoyerswerda