Biography

1962	Born Zwickau, Germany
1986-90	Study of Sculptor and Stone restoration  at FWG Berlin
since 1992	Lecturer, European Academy of Fine Art Trier Living in Trier (Germany) and New York

 

 

FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES

1992	Art Prize, Trier-Saarburg
1995	Ramboux-Prize, Trier
1995	Fellowship Herzogenbusch, Nederland
1996	Fellowship Artfonds, Berlin
1997	Art Prize 1997 Woodcut, Ludwigsburg
1998	Franz-Josef-Spiegler-Prize
1999	Fellowship Künstlerhaus Lukas, Arenshoop International-Studio-Program, New York
2003	Max Kade Foundation Grant USA
2004	Fellowship Schloss Wiepersdorf Grand Prix  4th International Triennial Prague 2004
2005	Art Omi, New York
2007	Kunstraum Syltquelle

BRAINPOWER

For about ten years now my main theme has been the model of human behaviour under extreme conditions such as fear, violence, pressure or death. In this I am especially provoked by the artistic conflict of those neurological and cognitive processes taking place in man that it is difficult to record purely scientifically.

Here, at the interface of biological determination and human awareness, I want to provoke a new perception of these processes through my art. Whether through the abstracted figurative speech of what is biological (up to metaphysical symbolism), or through the form of the crystallisation of the new semantics of the spoken word (new speech/sayings as the expression of human awareness). And often far over and above the framework of both groups of themes at once – both in their coherence and in their antagonism.

Bodo Korsig, 2007