Oliver Kunkel was born in 1973 in Frankfurt am Main. He lives and works in Cologne. He has been student of Rosemarie Trockel at KUNSTAKADEMIE Duesseldorf, and of Valie Export, Stahl Stenslie, Marcel Odenbach and Juergen Klauke at Academy of Media Arts Köln. Coming from conceptual art, the human body is in focus of this artist - either his own or the possible physical reactions of spectators, who are constantly being invited to act or are exposed to emotions. He analyses the viewers and points out the fragility of our pretentious security of civilization.

Artist looks into the subject of body parts, body juices, their sociocultural implications, their double meanings, creating intermedia series of art work. To realize his concepts he involves heterogeneous means of art with an unlimited and perfectionist attitude.Sculpture, plastic art, installation, video, photo, performance and his own body are the fields which take up most of his present workings. He exhibited in Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Luxembourg and Norway.

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