Carsten Recksik studied Art and Public Space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg before graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a student of Olaf Metzel. In 2005 Recksik was artist-in-residence at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil. In 2006 he was a funding recipient of the Kunstfonds Bonn. Recksik has served as a guest curator for various institutions such as the German Embassy in London, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Modern Art Oxford and the European Commission London. As an exhibition organiser and project manager he has helped realise projects with numerous artists including Andreas Gursky, Ai Wei Wei, Paul McCarthy, Ellsworth Kelly and Pierre Huyghe. He's currently the Associate Publisher at frieze Magazine in London.
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2006 Diploma / MFA Academy of Fine Arts Munich
2005 Residency FAAP Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado São Paulo/Brazil / Fine Arts
2003 Academy of Fine Arts Munich / Visual Arts / Professor Olaf Metzel
2001-2003 Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg / Art and Public Space / Professor Georg Winter
AWARDS / GRANTS
2008 DAAD-Scholarship for the USA 2009
2008 Scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2007 Debutant Grant of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Science, Munich
2005 Scholarship Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado Art School, Sáo Paolo / Brazil
2002 First prize of the annual exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
2002 Second prize at the competition of the Danner-Foundation
PUBLICATIONS (Selection)
Pictures of people taking pictures of pictures, VICE Magazine, 2014
Olaf Breuning at the ICA London, Modern Matter Magazine, 2013
Nottingham Art Scene, Port Magazine, London, UK, 2013
Containing the Possible, Houldsworth Gallery London, TimeOut London, 2012
Diving for Pearls (in your own Soup), catalogue, Exhibition Hall of the City of Munich, 2012
Schwarz war immer die Farbe der anderen, 8 years Gallery Dina4 Munich, publication, 2011
ANNUAL, magazine, Paris, France 2011
New German Art, the Playground.co.uk, London, United KIngdom, 2010
Portrait gallery scene Munich, Evelyn Pschak, artnet.de, 2010
Carsten Recksik - New Release, artist book, Salon Verlag, Cologne 2010
kunst.freunde, magazine Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2007
Carsten Recksik - Arbeiten, catalogue as part of the debutant grant of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture and Science, Munich, 2007
forschungsgruppe_f Little, publication, Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich, 2007
Notes for an art school, publication by the International Foundation Manifesta 6, article by Olaf Metzel, New York/ Nicosia, 2006
Klasse Metzel in der katholischen Akademie, catalogue, Munich, 2006
Kunststudenten stellen aus, catalogue, Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 2005
Neue deutsche Höhlenmalerei, Münchner Merkur newspaper, München 2005
Ghostacademy, publication by Uli Aigner, 2005
forschungsgruppe_f INDEX, publication by forschungsgruppe_f, 2005
Fucking good art, magazine, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2004