Aglaia Konrad

Aglaia Konrad studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Since 1994 she has been living in Brussels, where she teaches at LUCA. In her predominantly photographic work, she focuses on metropolitan spaces, taking inspiration from cities like Shanghai, Beijing, São Paulo, Dakar, Chicago, Tokyo and Cairo. She is interested in the uniformity of modernist architecture and the principles of grids and repetition. In a wide range of projects, she documents the urbanisation of the earth and the pollution and destruction that result from it. Konrad has had solo exhibitions in Museum M and STUK in Leuven, deSingel and FOMU in Antwerp and Mu.ZEE in Ostend. Her work has been internationally showcased at documenta X in Kassel, in the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Siegen, MoMA PS1 in New York and MNAC in Bucharest. It resides in numerous collections, including those of the Belvedere museum in Vienna, Cnap in Paris, FOMU and M HKA in Antwerp and Mu.ZEE in Ostend.