Markus Krug - WSK-F-262

From the left starting, manually cut 2 mm wide Depron strips in 5 mm height on the mounting side, painted with white pasty acrylic paint in a 25 mm grid and lightly pressed. This process was repeated as often as necessary until the object's width was reached.

Vita
Born in 1965 in 78224 Singen/Htw.,
lives and works in Munich

2001–2006, Member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists
2008–2010, Studio fellowship of the Bavarian state government
2008–2011, Studio funding program of the City of Munich
2012, Saatchi Online Showdown Abstract Award, Shortlist
2013, Nominated for the Sculpture Grant of the LebensArt Foundation, Cologne
2014–2017, Studio funding program of the City of Munich
2015, Kahnweiler Prize for Sculpture and Installation, Shortlist;
2015, Fellowship of the Prince Regent Luitpold Foundation
since 2016, Member of the rights management society Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2022, Kunstfonds Foundation, Restart Culture Fellowship, Bonn

Artist Statement
For more than 30 years, Markus Krug has been exploring structural concepts that build on each other in successive series. Planning, clarity, execution: in various techniques, sculptures, objects, and installations emerge; they resemble each other and could be interconnected like a kind of matrix.
Markus Krug creates homogeneous, reduced works from a wide range of materials: paper, cardboard, Styrofoam, or polystyrene foam. Due to the manual working method, minimal differences arise, which are highlighted or also concealed by applying acrylic paint, mainly in black or white. The viscosity, amount, and handling of the paint are repeatedly varied from piece to piece, while the reference to the origin always remains.