Artist of the day: Artist of the day, May 1, 2024: Cornelia Konrads, a German sculptor, installation artist (#2012)

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Artist of the day, May 1, 2024: Cornelia Konrads, a German sculptor, installation artist (#2012)

Cornelia Konrads (1957) is a German sculptor and installation artist. She creates site-specific installations by implying a sense of weightlessness to ordinary objects. The German artist’s sculptures appear to be frozen in time and space, gracefully suspended in the air as if the otherwise ordinary landscape has begun to float away.

Konrads creates pieces made for a certain place using found local materials. Many feel temporary, perhaps created just long enough to be photographed. Konrads, unlike other land artists though, also has a unique bent on gravity, creating works that defy Newton’s laws.

In the introduction to a book on Konrads, Michael Stoeber describes the tensions in her work: “Calm and motion, dissolution and density, the contrastive play with gravity and overcoming it, with reality and simulation—are the stones really flying up into the sky, or are they not perhaps falling down and settling on the pile?” Stoeber wonders whether her work is “rising or falling.” Perhaps they are at some stage in between, “moments of an irritating and fascinating indecision.
These pieces are “the arrow that never reaches its target, Achilles who cannot manage to succeed in overtaking the tortoise.”

Konrads’ art is found in public spaces, sculpture parks, and private gardens across Europe, the U.S., South Korea, and Australia.

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