Christopher Krause

Christopher Krause's extraordinary series of works of children's playgrounds captures the essence of these places in a graphically painterly way that evokes memories of his own childhood as well as special moments of growing up.

Krause's pictures are characterized by a vibrant color scale that sometimes makes his depictions illuminate as if in a brilliant sunset. The playgrounds, deserted, seem almost like magical places, captured in the transition period (blue hour) between day and night and are reminiscent of the carefree hours of childhood, when playgrounds were still a world full of adventure, but also of the melancholy moments of youth, when these places sometimes became places of retreat. They thus symbolize the process between two phases of life and open the (adult) viewer's view of past stages of development, which can occasionally still be transferred to the here and now.

Christopher Krause lives in Berlin and is currently a student and prospective master student of Prof. Friederike Feldmann at the Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy.

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