ABOUT OSKAR RINK
Oskar Rink is a young German artist (b.1980) currently living and working from Leipzig, her home town in Germany.
She comes from a family tradition of artists as her father, Arno Rink, was one of the New Leipzig School pioneers. Thanks to him, Oskar learned the basics elements of painting from a young age.
Oskar Rink holds a diploma in pattern making and illustration at the l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Mode. She is also a graduate of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, in the Contemporary Art Department. Today, her work is a combination of confusion and clarity. Her practice indeed explores the incoherence between sense and sensitivity.
WORK PROCESS AND INSPIRATION
In her work, Oskar interrogates the complexity of the thought itself. Each art piece grows upon a fixed space and dimension, where all the ideas meet. Instead of adhering to a simple process, she accurately structures her artworks, giving an overall complexity.
Inspired by Russian constructivism and contemporary architecture, Oskar Rink’s three-dimensional works are based on engineering and construction sciences. The artist uses simple materials like paper, cardboard, or fine wooden sticks to reveal the endless search for a home. She depicts this usually in black and white or by color coating.
My work, she says, is a reflection of all that I am looking for: light, mental health, the need to immerse into the complexity of what I am surrounded by, to better understand and visualize any detail. Therefore, my paintings depict a world where I struggle to build a map and track a path that I may follow to guide me so I won’t get lost.
A RENOWNED EMERGING ARTIST
The artist’s intuitive and methodical work is internationally recognized by the trade press with her works being exhibited and auctioned internationally alongside artists like Banksy.
