Quirin Krumbholz - Artist & Architect
Aug 1, 2024
Meet the artist: Quirin Krumbholz
Quirin Krumbholz @ Keine Galerie
Bio
Quirin Krumbholz was born in Munich, Germany and is currently living and working in Vienna, Austria.
He studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar and ‘dieAngewandte’, University for Applied Arts, Studio Wolf D. Prix, in Vienna. He participated in multiple shows in the architectural context over the last 10 years, noticebly the artistic research project ‘fluid bodies’, funded by the FWF PEEK program between 2018 and 2020.
His first solo exhibition ‘north of nothing’ was shown in Vienna in 2022. Selected works were featured in the same year at the VRHAM in Hamburg, the Progress in Architecture conference at Belvedere 21 in Vienna and the IMM Cologne.
Wie würdest du deine Kunst beschreiben?
His work covers interdisciplinary research on art, design, architecture and technology. While crossing borders between the different fields, he is creating unexpected and meaningful relations between objects, subjects, theories and artisanry. The current artistic work is focusing on the fundamental force of magnetism. Unlike certain species in sharks and birds, humans lack the sense of Magnetoreception. The works of Quirin Krumbholz are revealing the presence of magnetic fields in unexpected and mind-blowing ways. Floating liquids with constantly changing patterns that are just hanging on thin cables, “hedgehogs” made of powder, walking upside down over ceilings and “powder beasties” spiraling along walls.
Wie ist dein Prozess?
All my works are based on the principle of experiments. My artistic process is rather a scientific approach to achieve sculptural effects triggered either by the production process itself into a frozen object or a kinetic setup to animate and modulate matter by using magnetic fileds.
Was verbindest du mit Wien?
Vienna is a central European capital with a very strong history expressing a strong cosmopolitism, diversity and quality of life.