Clemens Krauss: Touched

Clemens Krauss’ works deal with the psychological currents of society and their impact on individual and social psyches. Krauss states that “social collectives are constituted by physical human interactions, the interaction of bodies. Starting from the human body, friction(s) and predetermined breaking lines within social structures are the core interest of my current work.” Often, he paints figures in a thick, agitated painting style, placing them in ambiguous interactions within vast spaces of negative space. It is not by accident that, prior to his art studies at the Berlin University of the Arts, Clemens Krauss also completed his training as a medical doctor and later as a psychoanalyst. In his oeuvre, painting and performance, sculpture, psychoanalysis, and video fuse together to examine the way that people navigate social spaces.