Kasper Kovitz
Kasper Kovitz is an Austrian artist living and working in the United States for the last three decades. Since 1999, he has been creating individual fragments as part of a larger, overarching plan for a holistically envisioned ‘super installation’.
His work has been shown in a number of solo and group shows internationally, including foundations and museums in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Vienna. Two of his sculptures were acquired by the Saatchi Collection in London. Kasper Kovitz was awarded the MAK/Schindler scholarship, the International Studio and Curatorial Program twice, the Marie Walsh Sharpe scholarship and the Pollock-Krasner Fellowship. Kovitz taught at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and currently is Professor of Art at Scripps College and Extended Faculty at the Claremont Graduate University (CGU), both in Claremont, California.
A monograph about The Lessons, a 2023 series of 35 paintings, 92 pgs, 60 color illustrations, with an interview with KK by Chris Kraus, an essay by Pil and Galia Kollectiv and a conversation with KK by Matt Poole, was publlished by Verlag für Bildende Kunst - VFBK in 2024.
EDUCATION
Painting and Experimental Expression, University of Applied Arts
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Erika Billeter
Gunter Damisch
Gregor Eichinger
Peter Noever
Achille Bonito Oliva
