oa
krimmel

OA KRIMMEL, [OAK]

Born: 11 October 1967, Stuttgart, Germany

Lives & works in Stuttgart and on Elba.

Education: Diploma State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (graduating top of his year)

Conceptual art, photographic art, sculpture

Since 2024 focus on free artistic work as sculptor and the body of work “Are You Ready for Xtinction”, integrating Artificial Intelligence and modern techniques.

SELECTED AWARDS & PRIZES

2025: Ludwig-Gies-Prize for Small Sculpture, LETTER-Stiftung Köln

2023: ICMA Award Gold for „Songspiration“

2012: Haptik Award, Category VI „Art & Culture“

2010: TDC 56 Competition (Type Directors Club New York)

2009: Graphic Fine Arts Silver, Deutscher Designer Club

2008: European Design Award

2003: fstop Photo Collection

SELECTED SOLO / GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2026: "Unordnung/Disorder", Group Show, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

2025: "New Habitats", Group Show 16th Triennal Small Sculpture Fellbach (with Christian Jankowski, Superflex et al.)

2024: "Freundschaft", Group Show Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg (with Wolfram Ullrich, Thomas Locher et al.)

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Until 2023: Selected applied conceptual/cultural works:

• Scenographic design for art exhibitions (e.g. Albrecht Dürer (2012), Picasso (2015), Max Ackermann (2017), Christoph Niemann (2018), Max Klinger (2020) et al.) et al.)

• Name creations for museums (e.g. Kunstpalais — formerly Galerie der Stadt Erlangen; Landesmuseum Württemberg, et al.)

• Corporate design (e.g. Television Tower Redesign Anton Stankowski, Corporate Identity Loriot, Visual Identity Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, et al.)

• Founder: Design agency i_d buero (Top 5 Germany, ADC-Ranking)

• Co-founder: Urban Art Guerilla Gallery „Hotel deVil“ (Stuttgart)

• Director: First german Hip Hop music video (Die Fantastischen Vier „Jetzt geht’s ab“)

• Director: Feature film „Das war spitze“ (funded by Filmstiftung Baden-Württemberg)

• Teacher / Lectures: Merz-Akademie & Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart

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(Debut) Photo Solo exhibition, Hotel de Vil, „Gummizelle“, Haus F.C. Braun, 2009

(Debut) Conceptual Art Exhibition „Inhale – Exhale“, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1997

(Debut) Group Show "Schock & Schöpfung, Jugendästhetik im 20. Jh.", Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1986

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & BOOK PROJECTS

Award-winning book objects on designer Kurt Weidemann, actor Klaus Kinski, Stuttgart TV-tower, Charles Paul Wilp, Vicco von Bülow (Loriot)

„2Gplus“ – Artist’s book featuring 3D-printed avatar photographic fantasy worlds during Corona travel restrictions

„Songspiration“ & „Filmspiration“ (Seltmann Publishers, Berlin)

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart;

Stadtpalais Stuttgart;

Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst BW;

LETTER Stiftung Cologne;

State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

ART IN PUBLIC SPACES

Bosch-Areal, Stuttgart [Metal, 6m]

Fernsehturm Stuttgart [Kaltplastik, 14x5m]

Bismarck67, Stuttgart [Neon, 2m]