Karin Frank
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Karin Frank (born 1972) is an Austrian sculptor known primarily for figurative wooden sculptures and portrait reliefs.
Life
Karin Frank was born in Vienna. She trained in graphic design from 1987 to 1991 at the Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. She then studied from 1992 to 1997 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she studied in the class of Michelangelo Pistoletto. In 1995, as part of the Erasmus Programme, she studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid.
With the support of scholarships, Frank travelled to Saint Petersburg in 1998 and 2001. In 2002 she received the Recognition Award of the State of Lower Austria. Study residencies funded by scholarships from the Federal Chancellery of Austria and the Austrian federal ministries BMUKK and BMKOES took her, among other places, to Fujino, Japan (2006), Český Krumlov in the Czech Republic (2011), and Rome (2014).
Frank has participated in exhibitions since 1997. In 2004, Neue Galerie Graz, part of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, presented several of her works in a catalogue-accompanied solo exhibition.
Karin Frank lives in Vienna. Her studio is located in the courtyard of a residential building in Simmering.
Work
As a sculptor, Karin Frank primarily works with wood. She typically leaves its surfaces raw and unpolished, sometimes painting them with watercolor or acrylic paint. Occasionally she combines wood with textiles or other materials. She prepares larger works with design drawings or models made of modelling clay or aluminium foil.
Frank mainly depicts human figures, and less frequently animals. Her works include individual figures, pairs and small groups, sometimes placed on globe-like forms and surrounded by landscape elements. The figures often engage in sexual acts or interact with bodily excretions. There is an apparent contradiction between the drastic content and the harmless-looking aesthetic, which recalls folk art or toys.
Frank's oeuvre also includes woodcuts, most of which were created in 2011 during her study residency in Český Krumlov, and sculptural portrait works. After she won an art competition held by the University of Vienna for the creation of monuments to female scientists, her portrait reliefs of Olga Taussky-Todd and Grete Mostny, made of aluminium and bronze respectively, were installed in the Arcaded Court of the University of Vienna in 2016.
Works by Frank are held, among other institutions, in the collection of the City of Vienna, the Lower Austria Museum, the Artothek des Bundes and IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art.
Selected works
- Erde 2, 2002, painted wood, 30.5 × 19 cm, Artothek des Bundes
- Schiele, 2005, polychrome painted wood, 130 × 70 × 50 cm, Lower Austria Museum
- Katze, 2007, painted wood, Landespensionisten- und Pflegeheim Hainfeld
- Bildhauerin, 2008, painted wood, 76 cm, Artothek des Bundes
- Venuspaar von Willendorf, 2010, painted wood and horn, temporary exhibition at the discovery site of the Venus of Willendorf, Lower Austria Museum
- Respiration, 2011, painted wood, 69 × 40 × 16.5 cm, Lower Austria Museum
- Partnerobjekt, 2011, painted wood, 28 × 85 × 29 cm, signed "Karin Frank / 11", Lower Austria Museum
- Kontorsionistin, 2013, partially polychromed wood, painted base plate, 100 cm, Lower Austria Museum
- Memorial to Olga Taussky-Todd, 2016, cast aluminium, 90 × 90 cm, Arcaded Court of the University of Vienna
- Memorial to Grete Mostny-Glaser, 2016, cast bronze, 115 × 65 cm, Arcaded Court of the University of Vienna
- Transpiration, 2017, painted wood, 68.5 × 39.7 × 16.5 cm, signed "Karin Frank, 17", Lower Austria Museum
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2001: Transmedial Exercises: Renate Kordon, Karin Frank, Alfred Resch, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
- 2004: Karin Frank, Neue Galerie Graz
Group exhibitions
- 2000: Eigensinn und Eigensicht. Selbstportraits von Wiener Künstlern, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
- 2003: Frauenbild. Fotografie, Skulptur und Video aus der Sammlung des Niederösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Lower Austria Museum
- 2006: Österreichische Kunst am oberen Tassenrand, IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen
- 2010: "Ich ist ein anderer" – Die Kunst der Selbstdarstellung, Lower Austria Museum
- 2010: raum_körper_einsatz, MUSA Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
- 2012: den blick öffnen, Stadtmuseum Wiener Neustadt
- 2018: Die 90er Jahre – Eine Ausstellung in drei Aufzügen, MUSA, Vienna
- 2022: Rendezvous mit der Sammlung, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems
- 2022: Welcome my Deer | Tierkunst : Kunsttier, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz
References
- 1 2 3 (in German) Dankmar Trier: Frank, Karin. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Band 44, Saur, München u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1, S. 50
- 1 2 "Karin Frank". artothek.info (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- 1 2 "Karin Frank". museum-joanneum.at (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- 1 2 "Die Bildhauerin Karin Frank". oe1.orf.at (in German). 8 April 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ "Wissenschafterinnen ein Denkmal setzen". phaidra.univie.ac.at (in German). University of Vienna. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2026.
- ↑ "Karin Frank: Landespensionisten- und Pflegeheim Hainfeld". koernoe.at (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ "Ein Museum in der Zeit". kultum.at (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ "Als Wien in die Breite ging: MUSA feiert die Kunst der 90er". Salzburger Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ "Rendezvous mit der Sammlung". lgnoe.at (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ↑ "Welcome my Deer". bildrecht.at (in German). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
Further reading
- (in German) Dankmar Trier: Frank, Karin. In: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker (AKL). Band 44, Saur, München u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1, S. 50
- Karin Frank. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Karin Frank, 6 March – 4 April 2004, Studio der Neuen Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum. Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie, Neue Galerie, Graz, 2004.
External links
- Official website
- Karin Frank at the Artothek des Bundes
- Audio report on Karin Frank at Österreich 1
- Works by Karin Frank in the online collections of Lower Austria
- Karin Frank in the University of Vienna monuments wiki
