OA KRIMMEL, [OAK]
Born: 11 October 1967, Stuttgart, Germany
Lives & works in Stuttgart and on Elba.
Education: Diploma State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (graduating top of his year)
Conceptual art, sculpture and creative direction
Since 2024 focus on free artistic work as sculptor and the body of work “Are You Ready for Xtinction”, integrating Artificial Intelligence and modern techniques.
2025: Ludwig-Gies-Prize for Small Sculpture, LETTER-Stiftung Köln
2023: ICMA Award Gold for „Songspiration“
2012: Haptik Award, Category VI „Kunst & Kultur“
2010: TDC 56 Competition (Type Directors Club New York)
2009: Graphic Fine Arts Silver, Deutscher Designer Club
2008: European Design Award
SELECTED SOLO / GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2025: "New Habitats", Group Show 16th Triennal Small Sculpture Fellbach (with Christian Jankowski, Superflex et al.)
2024: "Freundschaft", Group Show Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg (with Wolfram Ullrich, Thomas Locher et al.)
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Until 2023: Applied conceptual works in the cultural sector:
• Corporate and scenographic design for art exhibitions (e.g. Albrecht Dürer (2012), Picasso (2015), Max Ackermann (2017), Christoph Niemann (2018) et al.)
• Name development for museums (e.g. Kunstpalais — formerly Galerie der Stadt Erlangen; Landesmuseum Württemberg, et al.)
• Corporate design (e.g. Television Tower Redesign Anton Stankowski, Corporate Identity Loriot, Visual Identity Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, et al.)
• Founded: Design agency i_d buero (Top 5 Germany, ADC-Ranking)
• Co-founder: Urban Art Guerilla Gallery „Hotel deVil“ (Stuttgart)
• First german Hip Hop music video (Die Fantastischen Vier „Jetzt geht’s ab“)
• Feature film „Das war spitze“ (funded by Filmstiftung Baden-Württemberg)
• Teaching / Lectures: Merz-Akademie & Hochschule der Medien (HdM) Stuttgart
• Art-in-Architecture projects (Bosch-Areal Stuttgart et al.)
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(Debut) Solo exhibition „Inhale – Exhale“, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1997
(Debut) Group Show "Schock & Schöpfung, Jugendästhetik im 20. Jh.", Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1986
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & BOOK PROJECTS
Award-winning book objects on designer Kurt Weidemann, actor Klaus Kinski, Stuttgart TV-tower, Charles Paul Wilp, Vicco von Bülow (Loriot)
„2Gplus“ – Artist’s book featuring 3D-printed avatar photographic fantasy worlds during Corona travel restrictions
„Songspiration“ & „Filmspiration“ (Seltmann Publishers, Berlin)
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart;
Stadtpalais Stuttgart;
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst BW;
LETTER Stiftung Cologne;
State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
P.S.: SELECTED PING PONG WORK:
2024 District Champion Men’s Singles
2024 World Championship Rome Participant
2024 World Championship Rome Participant
2023 League Champion (Club League)
2022 District Champion Men’s Doubles