Ulf Koenig, Germany

Biography Ulf Koenig lives in the City of Ulm, south of Germany. Since 2004 he works as a self-educated freelance artist and designer. Ulf’s artworks mainly address technology and architecture, reflecting his background in R&D-Management in the industry. He has participated in around 70 solo-, group- and online-exhibitions in Europe, Canada, USA, received 28 honors and awards, and has published in 9 art-magazines. In order to combine fine art with novel technologies, Ulf has founded 2 interdisciplinary artists collectives (see e.g. YouTube AV-SCILLS). Statement Since many years Ulf Koenig explores abstract, skyscraper-like sculptures as models for more aesthetic, artful cities. Rigid geometric, asymmetrically arranged 3D-shapes which cross, intersect or interpenetrate have been used, together with a constructivist color scheme. The sculptures will be placed on a “skyscraping” pedestal what both together merge to a thematic unit. The “Modular Skyscraper Giant 1” is...