ALBERT KAAN

Albert Kaan - Frequency ship to gravity, 2018, square pipe mesh, el-wire, marker, 260x500x50-cm, by night

Frequency ship to gravity, 2018, square pipe mesh, el-wire, marker, 260 x 500 x 50 cm, by night

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BIOGRAPHY

Albert Kaan lives and works in Bucharest. Born in 1993, he graduated from the Sculpture Department at the National University of Arts in Bucharest in 2016. His artistic discourse is strongly related to his urban experiences. He combines industrial materials, such as iron and tar with the more traditional modelling clay, plaster or charcoal to create spatial structures of generous sizes that can be as well exhibited outdoor, in gardens and parks or indoor, in white-cube or industrial spaces. He also mixes sounds and video-projections with industrial structures, creating spectacular effects in live performances.

As a young artist he explores out of the ordinary mental and sensory experiences and transfers them into matter. More than being shortly lived, his artworks are projected, planned, imagined and transformed into solid, permanent structures.

Just as a photograph immortalizes moments, the metal networks built up by the artist preserve pieces of his thoughts and the memory of older memories. Through formal reduction and simplified geometry, he extracts the essential out of the sensory chaos.

The mixture of metal with light and colour transforms classical media in post-Conceptual ideas, while intention and process to eternize multisensory experiences in only one image, as in photography, amplifies the polymorphic meaning of his objects-instances.

Albert Kaan combines media in such a way that he takes a distance from tradition, that can easily confine such a historical discipline. He welds, paints and assembles various materials, using formal rigors concerning rhythm, movement and the ephemeral.

His first solo show presented at 418 Gallery has a site-specific dimension, the artist being influenced by the space of the barn from Cetate, where he integrated his vision along with the technical possibilities of the given environment. Being interested in installation as practice in post-War art history, Albert Kaan claims his inspirational sources from Dan Flavin or James Turrell, without becoming formal burdens, only guiding practices in certain technical aspects. Claire Bishop considered that installation “addresses the viewer directly as a literal presence in the space”. The exhibition Form Vibration – Time Illusion is situated in the mid-point between site-specific installation and a display of serial artefacts and relies on the effect that space and light have upon objects, sound and shapes.

SYMPOSIA
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2019, 12th Edition
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2018, Mihail Cosuletu, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Adina Mocanu, Petrica Stefan, Miki Velciov , Cetate Arts Danube Center, Cetate, Romania
Cetate Arts Danube – Artists in Residence 2017, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Constantin Luser, Ignazio Mortellaro, Stefan Papco, Petrica Stefan, Cetate Arts Danube Center, Cetate, Romania

 

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
In a Liminal Space My Shadow Gets Twisted
Atelier 35, Bucharest

2018
Solo Show, PlantVillage, Bucharest

Form Vibration/Time Illusion, 418 Gallery, Cetate

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Wintermärchen
418GALLERY, Munich

2022
Other Worlds on Paper
418GALLERY, Munich

2021
Cetate Arts Danube. Blue Coated Summer.
ARCUB, Bucharest

Young Artists, Young Friends | Accrochage 3 | Old and New Cetate Arts Danube

THIS WILL AGE REALLY WELL!
LEILEI Gallery | Bucharest

Young Artists, Young Friends | Accrochage 2
418GALLERY Munich

2020
My Solo Group Show
CAV Gallery

Art Brussels Online Platform

NAG – Quick-Fix
La Mielul Alb, Sibiu

Zblentit, zblentit !
A5 Studio Space, Bucharest

2019
Opening Artspace, Stefan Radu Cretu, Albert Kaan, Petrica Stefan
GOLDEGG4, Vienna

NAG – Sampanie in spatiu
La Mielul Alb, Sibiu

Art Safari 2019
Art Safari, Bucharest

MUTE
Nomi Blum, Damien Caccia, Stephanie Carranza, Albert Kaan, Dimitri Mallet, Célia Nkala, Daniel Roşca, Vlad Turco

In the frame of the French – Romanian Season 2019
Galerie Mansart, Paris

Dimensions – Albert Kaan, Cristina Flo, Matei Petrescu
Råhuset, Copenhagen

2018
Quasi Vernissage, Cazul101, Bucharest

2017
Creator and designers Night, Universivery of Arhitecture Ion Mincu, Bucharest

In serie – NAG, TOT, Bucharest
4 Artists’ Room, 418 Gallery, Cetate

Diploma Selected, Romanian Design Week, Mezanin, Bucharest

2016
An Abstract Feeling – Young Romanian Artists, 418 Gallery, Bucharest
Diploma Selected, Stirbey Palace, Bucharest

New Artists – Hanul Gabroveni, Arcub, Bucharest

Amural Festival, Brasov

Summer Well Festival, Stirbey Estate, Bucharest

Adamclisi Arts Archeology, Adamclisi

Expo Circuit: Hanul Gabroveni, Bucharest; Multicultural Center of Transilvanya University, Brasov; Museum of Universal Etnography, Franz Binder, C.N.M., Astra, Sibiu; Urania Palace, Cluj – Napoca; Ambasada, Timisoara

The New Creative Class 1. Albert Kaan & Mihai Popescu, Tipografia Gallery, Bucharest

Muse, Danaida, Craftsmanship, Cumintenii, Romanian National Library, Bucharest
Shape, Questions and Answers II, Timisoara West University’s Sculpture Department

2015
Metha – Lan III, The irreversible passage of time, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest

2014
Metha – Lan II, Human interconnection, AnnArt Gallery, Bucharest

2011
Sutu Palace, Bucharest

2010
Look and Learn, Tonitza Highschool Exchange, London