Harald Kröner’s work focuses on perception and the transition between the visible and the invisible, where colour influences and colours design, where a line is transformed into rhythm or music, where the complex and surprising combination of elements creates harmony. Kröner speaks of drawing and collage as a constantly growing store of ideas, a kind of battery, and so the works of recent years, which bear consecutive K numbers as titles, now attempt to link the individual blocks of work created to date with cross-references and to network them into polyphonic fields of narratives. In these drawings, the artist uses a wide variety of material combinations. Early drawings from the 1990s are virtually melted into some of the lacquer works. Smaller sheets are collaged into dirt marks left behind from painting on another piece of paper. They thus become staggered frames. He incorporates entire pages from art magazines, from which he has removed the illustrations, into the collages. He describes this as a “muted discourse echo”, which he places in a new context through his drawings. Kröner’s discoveries, vague and intermediate, create a field of tension between hints that stubbornly elude discourse. By refusing to say anything definitive and affirming the inevitable intimacy, Kröner’s work is both topical and political.
Biography
- 1984–90 Studium Kunstakademie Stuttgart bei Rudolf Schoofs
- 1994 Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg
- 2002/03 Atelierstipendium Stiftung Bartels Fondation, Basel
- 2005/06 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
- 2006/07 Preisträger Wettbewerb Werk 07, Heide
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2023 tang / tongue Betriebswerk Heidelberg
- 2023 Kunstraum K634 Köln
- 2022 Kunstverein Germersheim
- 2023 Zeichnung 04 Bonn
- 2021 Kunstforum Weil der Stadt
- 2021 Kunstverein Nürtingen
- 2020 Alter Schlachthof Pforzheim
- 2021 Maquis Mami Wata, Mannheim
- 2020 Galerie Linda Treiber
- 2017 Galerie Rottloff Karlsruhe
- 2017 RAUSCH´N Kunstverein Pforzheim
- 2016 Gastmahl / Museum für Brotkultur, Ulm
- 2016 Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
- 2012 Galerie Christoph Abbühl Solothurn
- 2013 Städtische Galerie Pforzheim
- 2010 Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- 2007 Institut francais de Stuttgart
- 2006 trésor, Kunstverein Pforzheim