Markus Krug - WSK-F-262

From the left starting point, manually cut 2mm wide Depron strips were painted on the landing side at a height of 5mm with white, paste-like acrylic paint in a 25mm grid and gently pressed. This process was repeated as many times as necessary until the object width was reached.

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

2001–2006, Member of the Federal Association of Visual Artists
2008–2010, Studio stipend from 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 Funding Prize of the LebensArt Foundation, Cologne
2014–2017, Studio funding program of the City of Munich
2015, Kahnweiler Prize for Sculpture and Installation, Shortlist;
2015, Stipendium of the Prinzregent-Luitpold Foundation
Since 2016, membership in the collecting society Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2022, Kunstfonds Foundation, Start-up Culture stipend, Bonn

Artist Statement
For more than 30 years, Markus Krug has been exploring, in progressively built series, structural concepts. Planning, clarity, execution: in various techniques, sculptures, objects and installations emerge; they resemble each other and could be connected 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 camouflaged by applying acrylic paint, mainly in black or white. The viscosity, amount and handling of the paint are repeatedly changed from object to object, while the reference to the origin always remains.