Posts Tagged ‘Kitty Kraus’

OPEN CALL for artists // Berlin Art Prize 2015

Blog post by Nora Kovacs – in Berlin; Wednesday, Mar. 11, 2015.

From March 8th to April 1st, Berlin Art Prize will be accepting applications for its 2015 award cycle. The prize seeks to celebrate contemporary art in Berlin by awarding three winners…[read on…]

BUY, TWEET, OR BURN: The Best and Worst of the Berlin Art Scene

kitty Kraus

Blog Entry by Corinna Kirsch– in Berlin; Wednesday, May 11, 2011.

Kraus takes banal and inanimate objects, then recombines and alters them in a way to imbue them with emotion and a resemblance to living things. For her “ice lamp,” she sealed a light bulb with silicone and then stuck it inside a cube of icy water and ink, causing the lamp to slowly wither and melt away. Regarding this work, Kraus has said: “When you see the lamp, there is something extremely sad about it.”

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