KASPAR LAURENZ

ABOUT

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Kaspar Laurenz (b. 1997, Munich) is an Austrian-based artist living and working in the Kitzbühel area. He grew up on the artistically shaped mountain farm “Schernfeichten,” which has served as the cultural center for the Kitzbühel Alpine Botanical Garden and the local farmers’ market, and currently houses a porcelain workshop.

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After moving to Vienna for his medical studies and through extensive work in hospitals across Europe and Africa, Kaspar explored the transience of existence and the complexity of human experience. During this time, he discovered art as both an expression of his deeply rooted creative drive and a conceptual framework through which to process these experiences.

Inspired by Japanese concepts, his work focuses on the transience of time and nature. Many of his current works revolve around a dialectic of time within the medium, whether capturing a fleeting moment of light in the enduring medium of fresco painting, crafting ceramic vessels only to destroy and reassemble them, or engaging in the decade-long process of grafting a tree with one hundred varieties, only to witness the artwork gradually fade upon completion.

Kaspar’s artistic practice unfolds through a strictly series-based approach. A central body of work, “36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser,” is one of his most fully realised series to date, dedicated to the shifting light across the seasons in the Tyrolean mountain landscape.