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still life 13, alabaster, marble, serpentinite, 27 x 35 x 23 cm, 2012

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In his sculptural practice, Andreas Blank combines the abstract and the realistic, the conceptual as well as the technical. He sources stones from quarries from all over the world, carves them with elaborate deliberation and assembles them in sometimes consciously stylized, and other times deceptively realistic objects of the everyday.
In his precise installations, the apparently ephemeral objects achieve monumental permanence. Whether marble, alabaster, or porphyry, material historically used to serve religious or political functions, has in Blank's hands acquired a seemingly casual and fragmentary character.
The geographical and cultural identity of the stone and the memorial function of stone-sculpture in general refer to the value of each object. Blank questions the obvious and transforms traditional ideals and values on the ordinary and present.

Andreas Blank was born in Ansbach in 1976. He attended the Karlsruhe State Academy of Art (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste) and was Meisterschüler under Prof. Klingelhöller. He held a scholarship with the German National Academic Foundation and received his MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2009 he was a finalist for the New Sensations Award by Channel 4 and the Saatchi Gallery. Blank lives and works in London and Franconia.

Andreas Blank

1976 born in Ansbach, Germany

Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

Education

2001-2006
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe bei Prof. Harald Klingelhoeller

2007
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, Gaststudent bei Andreas Slominksi

2008-2009
Royal College of Art London

Grants

2009
Land Securities Studio Award, London
Conran Foundation Award

2008
Scholarship for Great Britain, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

2007
Residency, Stiftung Vorwerk, Hamburg

2005
Scholarship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes

Solo Exhibitions

2012
Shadows of Words Spoken, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

Group Exhibitions

2012
Memory. International Contemporary Sculpture, Rosenfeld Porcini, London
Oh, Plastiksack!, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur
Stillstehende Sachen aus der Sammlung SOR Rusche, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh-Liesborn

2011
Stressing Spiritual Needs Even When Selling Ice Cream, DNA-Galerie, Berlin
Memory, Rosenfeld Porcini Gallery, London

2010
Please Write, Posted Projects, London
Transcending, LARMgalleri, Kopenhagen
New German Art/Neue Deutsche Kunst, Deutsche Botschaft, London
Cocktail, Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen
Keep Me Posted, Posted Projects, London
The Land Securities Studio Awards 2010, SW1 Gallery, London
Christian Achenbach, Andreas Blank, Nicola Samorì, Galerie Christian Ehrentraut, Berlin

2009
We Can Understand The Meaning Better Without, St. Pancras Parish Church Crypt, London
New Sensations, Rochelle School, London
Galerie Alfred Knecht, Karlsruhe
Abschied und Ankunft, DB Museum, Nuremberg
Afghanische Botschaft, Berlin

2008
Optimism, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Allen & Overy, London

2007
Regionale 7, Projectspace 54, Basel
Lichtfeld 7, Basel
Sculptureproject, Osterburken

2005
Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen
Haus der Kunst, Munic

2004
Kunsthaus, Nuremberg

2003
Skulpturenpark, Tuttlingen

Andreas Blank

Christian Ehrentraut
Friedrichstr. 123
10117 Berlin
Germany

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