Michaela Konrad (artist)

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Michaela Konrad, (2012)

Michaela Konrad (* 1972 in Graz ) is an Austrian illustrator and artist .

life and work

Michaela Konrad's work includes paintings, graphic works and experimental comics. She mostly works in sequences. Several multimedia comic installations are created. a. for Ars Electronica and for the Nextcomic Festival in Linz. She combines the striking and illustrative painting style typical of Pop Art with elements of American comic classics from the 50s and 60s. In terms of content, her work differs from these stylistic influences. Natural sciences are just as much a source of inspiration for her work as art history, metaphysics or contemporary history.

Michaela Konrad works in Santa Cruz ( Tenerife ) and in Vienna .

style

Konrad draws very reduced and focused on the essentials. Her intention is to combine art and comics. Press reviews on her book Mondwandler:

"The combination of powerful, luminous signal colors in front of black and gray backgrounds skillfully visualizes the dissonance between a lifeless planet and the astronauts' research efforts, which stem from human vitality."

- Oliver Ristau : Der Tagesspiegel

"You are only too happy to float in this calm river, and at a certain point you begin to feel the weightlessness, the emptiness and the silence of the universe on your own body."

- Jan Westenfelder : Strapazin

"You literally float through the room while reading."

- Christian Meyer : Choices

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2019 DISTOPIAS XV Salón Internacional del Cómic y la Ilustración de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz (Spain)
  • 2019 The First Men , gallery statement, Lisi Hämmerle, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2019 Art Bodensee (group exhibition), Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Dornbirn (Austria)
  • 2019 RACE TO THE MOON! (Group exhibition), Caricature Museum Krems (Austria)
  • 2018 SPACELOVE (solo exhibition) Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich (Germany)
  • 2018 CAN THIS BE TOMORROW? , gallery statement Lisi Hämmerle, Parallel Vienna, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2018 CAN THIS BE TOMORROW? (Solo exhibition), Galerie Lisi Hämmerle, Bregenz (Austria)
  • 2018 Bienal Regional de Artes Plásticas (group exhibition), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Centro de Arte La Recova, Santa Cruz (Spain)
  • 2016 CLASS KUNST V - mixed feelings (group exhibition), Landesgalerie Linz (Austria)
  • 2016 KLASSE KUNST V (group exhibition), Landesgalerie Linz, Linz (Austria)
  • 2016 SECUENCIAS - Picasso, Strings and Science Fiction (solo exhibition), Brunnhofer Galerie, Linz (Austria)
  • 2015 After Picasso - Searching for traces in young Austrian art (group exhibition), Kunsthalle Krems - Forum Frohner (Austria)
  • 2014 Memories of Now, On the Beach Gradina de iarna - Festival, Timisoara (Romania)
  • 2014 Self-portrait 2014 (group exhibition), KMG, Art Gallery, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2014 Spacelove (solo exhibition), Arsenal Gallery, exhibition as part of the "Ligatura" comic festival in Poznan (Poland)
  • 2014 Secuencias (solo exhibition), Centro de Arte la Recova, Santa Cruz / Tenerife (Spain)
  • 2013 Contemporary Pop Art (group exhibition), Galerie Augustin, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2013 On the Beach (Hommage to Picasso), Multimedia Comicanimation, Ars Electronica Center (a Nextcomic project) (Austria)
  • 2012 Memories of Now - TransSymbol Express Ars Electronica Center - Nextcomic Festival 2012, Linz (Austria)
  • 2011–2012 Mondwandler / Spacelove with Leopold Maurer in the Nextcomic Corner, Ursulinenhof , Linz (Austria)
  • 2011 Memories of Now - Spirit of the Positron live at the Ars Electronica Festival , Linz (Austria)
  • 2011–2013 Memories of Now in the Deep Space of the Ars Electronica Center , Linz
  • 2011 El Jardin Inventado (group exhibition), Sala de exposiciones La Granja, Santa Cruz / Tenerife, (Spain)
  • 2011 X La Cara (group exhibition), Sala de Arte Los Lavaderos, Santa Cruz / Tenerife (Spain)
  • 2010 COMICkunst_2 "Nordpol Tonto # 12" with homage to Picasso , MAERZ artists' association , Linz (Austria)
  • 2010 Michaela Konrad and Daniel Dorobantu - featuring Eugene Neacsu, Memories of Now , multimedia comic in HD, live at Deep Space, Ars Electronica Center, Linz (Austria)
  • 2009 Spacelove in Comic NOW (group exhibition), Galerie der Freischaffenden, Vienna
  • 2009 COMICkunst_1 with Spacelove / Hommage to Picasso (group show) with Tommi Kuehberger, Jörg Vogeltanz and Thomas Ballhausen , MAERZ Künstlervereinigung , Linz (Austria)
  • 2009 1st Vienna Comics Day with Spacelove (group exhibition) WUK , Vienna (Austria)
  • 2009 Preludio (group exhibition), Sala de Arte Los Lavaderos, Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
  • 2008 Comic Impacts Art (solo exhibition) in the Art Museum in Timișoara , Timişoara (Romania)
  • 2008 Hommage to Picasso (solo exhibition), Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
  • 2007–2009 Different Levels / Kunst im Turm (group exhibition), Justice Center Wien Mitte, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2007 The Vacuum Cleaner / Spacelove (solo exhibition), New Gallery for Contemporary Art of the Brukenthal Museum , Sibiu (Romania)
  • 2007 Spacelove (solo exhibition), Centro de Grabado Contemporáneo, Santa Cruz / Tenerife (Spain)
  • 2007–2009 Spacelove in M-ars, the art supermarket, Vienna (Austria)
  • 2006 Graphic Poetry , (dialogue exhibition) with Florin Stoiciu, Romanian Cultural Institute, Vienna (Austria)

Publications

Prices

  • Illustration award of the XVI Salón Internacional del Cómic y la Ilustración of the XVI Salón Internacional del Cómic y la Ilustración in Santa Cruz (Tenerife)
  • Scholarship as part of the 2008 Caricature and Comics Award (BMUKK)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oliver Ristau: The girl from space , Der Tagesspiegel, November 21, 2011
  2. ↑ Jan Westenfelder: Walking on the Moon , Strapazin
  3. ↑ Christian Meyer: Reading Floating Comics , Choices, November 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Konrad, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz