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 | Kunstpreis des Landkreises Trier-Saarburg |
1995 | Ramboux-Preis, Trier Stipendium Hertogenbusch, Niederlande |
1996 | Stipendium Kunstfonds, Berlin |
1997 | Kunstpreis 1997 Holzschnitt, Ludwigsburg |
1998 | Franz-Josef-Spiegler-Preis |
1999 | Stipendium Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop Internationales-Studio-Programm, New York |
2003 | Max Kade Foundation, Grant / USA |
2004 | Stipendium Schloss Wiepersdorf Grand Prix 4th International Triennial Prague |
2005 | Art/Omi, New York |
2007 | kunst: raum sylt quelle |
2012 | Artist Residency Inside-Out Art Museum Beijing |
2015 | Artist Residency Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro Jozi Art:Lab Johannesburg, Südafrika |
2017 | CCA Andratx, Spain |
2018 | Residency Art Center Bern Switzerland |
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
