Aglaia Konrad - From A to K

M - Museum Leuven presents Brussels-based Austrian artist Aglaia Konrad in a first major solo exhibition in Belgium. Konrad has developed a distinct manner of photography that documents the rapidly advancing process of global urbanization. Her archive, which encompasses several thousand images of urban infrastructures and housing architectures, offers an unlimited repository that sheds a unique light on the relationship between society and space. The artist rearranges her works for each new exhibition and installation.

Her photographs, films and installations zoom in on exceptional buildings, investigate the transformation of cities and examine the overlapping between sculpture, architecture and film. Although Aglaia Konrad pursues a documentary approach, her work is not architectural photography in the usual sense. Her extensive studies of urban structures are based upon an understanding of space that may be taken as a complex system of signs and codes, actions, representations, allocations of meaning and resulting power relations.

From A to K brings a selective overview of Konrad's oeuvre from the late 1990s until today, and highlights its diversity. Konrad presents amongst others the new photo series "Shaping Stones," "Zweimal Belichtet" and "Avebury Full Circle," together with the new film La Scala about a villa on Lake Garda. She also produces a work for the museum facade.

In the last room, Suchan Kinoshita presents the exhibition experiment TOKONOMA, together with Aglaia Konrad, Olivier Foulon, Jörg Franzbecker, Kris Kimpe, Willem Oorebeek, Eran Schaerf and Walter Swennen.