Rainer Kurka

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9. Sculpture SHOW! in the city of Weikersheim 2016 - life-size figures by Rainer Kurka; ″ Your Freckles ″ from 2015; Terracotta and acrylic paints
9. Sculpture SHOW! in the city of Weikersheim 2016 - life-size figures by Rainer Kurka.

Rainer Kurka (* 1974 in Erlangen ) is a German sculptor . He lives and works in Berlin .

Biographical

Rainer Kurka learned stone carving as a schoolboy with Reinhard Klesse in Bamberg . From 1994 to 2002 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and in Florence with a focus on plastic design ( Floriano Bodini , Ariel Auslender ). In 2002 he obtained his diploma. From 2003 to 2008 he was an artistic assistant in the plastic design department at the TU Darmstadt at Auslender , who can be described as his academic teacher. At the same time, Kurka had lectureships in the design department at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences .

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Kurka's artistic interest is in the human figure, which he depicts in clay and bronze. He treats the image of man in different stages: in small, glazed terracotta statues, he plays through artistic questions as finger exercises. The small bronzes such as “Encounter” (2005) juxtapose man and woman as types and test the space-forming power of figure and architectural elements. Finally, the life-size, colored terracotta statues depict people as people with character and soul (“Toxic!”, 2008).

“Kurka succeeds in going beyond the natural state of affairs and giving the figures an aura that captivates the viewer. ... The question of the identity of the modern subject is one of the most important issues that his art deals with. Kurka tries to embody the lifestyle of today's young generation with classic means in a timeless form "

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 2004 “Tra Cielo e Terra”, Florence
  • 2007 “Silent Rooms”, Sculpture Gallery, Bamberg
  • 2008 "Sculptures", Gallery Sculptur, Bamberg
  • 2009 “Present”, Rosenheim Museum , Offenbach
  • 2016 9th Sculpture Show! - City of Weikersheim (From May to September 2016 the streets and squares of the old town are livened up with figures made of terracotta and bronze.)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1999 "Interregno", Technical University Darmstadt
  • 2000 "Pictures from Thailand", Thai Embassy, ​​Berlin
  • 2000 "Art from us X", Roßdorf
  • 2001 "Interregno II", Technical University Darmstadt
  • 2001 "Sichten 5", Technical University Darmstadt
  • 2005 “Plein Air 2005”, Art Academy in Szeged, Hungary
  • 2005 "or", Elisabethenstift, Darmstadt

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Marcus Frings: Present. Clay and bronze sculptures by Rainer Kurka , Kromsdorf / Weimar 2009, p. 20
  2. ↑ See also: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Department Rhein-Main-Zeitung, February 13, 2009, No. 37, p. 55

literature

  • Rainer Kurka: Figural Discoveries - Exhibition in the Sculptur Gallery in Bamberg, July / August 2008 . in: Art Profil , 1/2008, pp. 40f.
  • Marcus Frings: Presence. Clay and bronze sculptures by Rainer Kurka. Publishing house and database for the humanities - VDG, Kromsdorf / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-89739-618-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kurka, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH gain