Aglaia Konrad (born 1960) is an

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photographer and educator living in

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Life

Konrad was born in 1960

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, Austria. From 1990 to 1992 she studied at the Jan Van Eyck Academie, where she is also a research assistant. Konrad also teaches at the

LUCA School of Arts Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaerbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is an independent flemish art school. It is a predominantly Dutch-speaking institution located on the Paleizenstraat/Rue de Palais, and at another site, with ...

campus that was formerly known as the

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Work

Konrad's photographs explore urban space in large cities. Konrad's work has been to known to be distinctly international in that it highlights urban elements independent of cultural markers. Her work highlights the ubiquitous elements of urban life through methods like filming a city from the perspective of a moving car or compiling a series of aerial views of skyscrapers. In 2020 Konrad's work was featured in a group exhibition entitled ‘The Unruly Apparatus’ at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. The photographic research project combined the work of eleven photographers to map out the intersection points between sculpture and photography and create visual responses. Her work highlighted where photography and sculpture meet, conflict, and how new visual work can come out of that friction. She has had solo shows in Siegen, Antwerp, Geneva, Graz, Cologne and New York City. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions such as

documenta ''documenta'' is an exhibition of contemporary art which takes place every five years in Kassel, Germany. The ''documenta'' was founded by artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode in 1955 as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultura ...

X in 1997, Cities on the Move in 1998 and 1999, Talking Cities in 2006 and

Vienna International Apartment Vienna International Apartment is an exhibition venue for contemporary visual arts in Helsinki, Finland. It was created in Vienna, Austria in 2001, moved to Turku, Finland in 2003, to Helsinki, Finland in 2005, to Brussels, Belgium in 2007, to Ge ...

in 2008.

Awards

Her 2008 book ''Desert Cities'' received an from the International Center of Photography. Her 2011 book ''Carrara'' received a Fernand Baudin Prize. Konrad received the in 1997, and the

Camera Austria Award The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz (''Camera Austria-Preis für zeitgenössische Fotografie der Stadt Graz'') is an award given every two years since 1989 by the city of Graz Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the c ...

from the city of Graz in 2003. In 2004, she received the 4th Vevey International Photography Award from the Festival des Arts Visuels de Vevey. In 2007 she was awarded the Albert-Renger-Patzsch-Prize by the Dietrich Oppenberg Foundation.

References

1960 births Living people Photographers from Brussels People from Salzburg 20th-century Belgian women artists 21st-century Belgian women artists 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers Belgian women photographers {{Belgium-artist-stub