Clemens Krauss

Clemens Krauss’s pastose paintings express the attempt to verbalize the individual’s role in political, cultural, and social contexts. Using motifs sparingly, he sets the individual in relation to the mass. He draws on his training as a psychoanalyst for both his painting and his video works and performances. In the context of the 2017 exhibition Nichtwissen at the Galerie Crone Wien, for example, he offered therapy sessions for visitors, who in turn influenced his painting and contributed to the show’s development. Clemens Krauss was born in Graz in 1981 and has lived in Berlin since 2003. He has seen a significant number of institutional solo and group exhibitions around the world, including in Sydney, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, London, and Paris. In Germany his works have most recently been shown in solo shows at the MARTa Herford Museum in Herford, as well as the Berlinische Galerie and the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin.

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