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Andreas Blank (born in 1976 in Ansbach) studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe under Prof. Klingelhöller, and obtained his Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London. He was a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and following his studies, he received the Land Securities Award, became a finalist for the New Sensation Award by the Saatchi Gallery, and was honored with the Conran Award in London. Blank is the 2024 Loth Sculpture Prize donated by L-Bank.
Andreas Blank creates a mixture of abstract and representational yet conceptual sculptures. His materials are as outstading as his creative process. Blank is continoulsy looking for different sorts of stone, which then are handle by the artist on diverse complex processes to create pieces that may resemble everyday objects.
The artist combines both abstract and representational, as well as conceptual practices in his sculptures. Across various continents of the world, he searches for rare stones, meticulously crafts them through elaborate processes, and assembles them into stylized or deceptively realistic everyday objects.
Andreas Blank interrogates the visible and transposes traditional references and values onto the mundane and contemporary. He creates sculptures from marble, alabaster, sandstone, and limestone, which appear realistic but are liberated from their function and transformed into pure objects in the discourse of image and likeness. While historically stone sculptures primarily served political representation or religious devotion, Andreas Blank’s work now questions a (post)modern nihilism.
Andreas Blank (born in 1976 in Ansbach) studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Prof. Klingelhöller and completed his master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in London. He was a fellow of the German National Academic Foundation and received the Land Securities Award after his studies, becoming a finalist for the New Sensation Award at the Saatchi Gallery and being honored with the Conran Award in London.
His sculptures are held in public collections such as the Federal Art Collection in Bonn, the collection of the Ministry of the Environment in Berlin, and the collection of the Museum of the City of Basel. Andreas Blank lives and works in Aurach and Berlin.
His sculptures are in public collections such as the Bundeskunstsammlung in Bonn, the collection of the Ministry of the Environment in Berlin and the collection of the Museum der Stadt Basel. Andreas Blank lives and works in Aurach and Berlin.
Born 1976 in Ansbach, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Education
2008-2009
Royal College of Art London
2007
Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Hamburg, guest student with Andreas Slominksi
2001-2006
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe with Prof. Harald Klingelhoeller
Grants and Awards
2022
Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn
2013
Residency, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin
2010
Finalist, New Sensations 2009, London
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
