HERENDA mirsad
Mirsad Herenda - Trees of life and more.
"What's more important to you: the process or the end product?" "At this point in my life, the process is important to me. It's almost as if I'm in some kind of sexual arousal. That's how I would describe it when it comes to the process of my work. The result can be repulsive and at the same time I can feel love for that piece. It can be that when I finish a piece of work, I feel a very unpleasant feeling. Then I keep it in a place where I can't see it, covered with a blanket, it may just stand in the corner for half a year. Very few people want to know how the working process works. But many people come to my studio to see my work and many of them have an emotional connection to it. But I also feel that a lot of people today don't find it easy to show and have feelings."
"What it means to you to be famous?" "What it means to be famous? For a long time I thought that money didn't matter in life. But I had to understand that money is something that gives us freedom and is related to many other things. I never thought about fame, for me it was only necessary to be able to realize the ideas and dreams I had. For me, the word fame is very strange. Fame means to make a show. But I am not a showman, I am not an actor. I do what I have to do. I didn't choose the path of the artist, the path chose me."
Author/Interviewer: Janine Ahmann
With his sculptures he evokes highly poetic atmospheres in which the simultaneity of nature, vulnerability and cruelty comes to the fore: fine moss and steel braiding, the dramatic moment of a fleeing goat, a gently blowing wind on the sheets of molten metal.Mirsad Herenda's artworks evoke poetic atmospheres in which vulnerability and cruelty are expressed. His pieces are decorated with fine moss and steel braids, which give the impression that the wind is gently blowing on the metal.
| 1967 | born in Gorazde, Bosnien-Herzegowina |
| seit 2022 | Collaboration with Gallery FLOX |
| seit 2007 | Freelance artist in his own studio in Bremen |
| PRIZES/AWARDS | |
| 2010 | Andreas Prize winner, exhibition "Nature - Man" |
| EDUCATION/STUDIES | |
| 2007-2011 | Studied fine arts with Prof. B. Altenstein and Prof. F. Hörnschemeyer at the HfK, Bremen, graduating with a diploma, then master student with Prof. F. Hörnschemeyer |
| 2006 | Guest studies with Prof. B. Altenstein at the University of the Arts, Bremen |
| 1996-2002 | Studied sculpture at the HfK Sarajevo |
| SOLO EXHIBITION SELECTION | |
| 2023 | "Eisenzeiten", Gallery Alte Rathaus Worpswede |
| 2022 | "stil _ bewegt", art forum Oldenburg |
| 2021 | "Gunst und Gabe", Gallery Subject Object Berlin |
| "Kunst:Voll vernetzt", Villa Sponte Bremen | |
| 2020 | "Phänomenal Floral", Artspace Graefelfing – München |
| 2019 | Gallery Montmartre, Paris |
| "Made OF Steel", Gallery Benjamin Eck München | |
| 2018 | "Aus der Wunderkammer", Gallery am Stall , Hude |
| 2017 | "Stürmische Zeiten", Gallery Gerlach , Sottrum |
| 2016 | "Tracce", Gallery Bianca Maria Rizzi, Milano, Italien |
| 2014 | „lakoje sad Pricati“ Gallery Roman Petrovic, Sarajevo BiH |
| 2013 | Gallery Filser & Gräf, München |
| 2011 | Gallery Fuhrmann, München |
| 2010 | "Global Minds", Gallery Atelier 21, Aachen |
| 2009 | Gallery Bernack, Worpswede |
| GROUP EXHIBITION SELECTION | |
| 2021 | “Opus in Artem In Itinere I – Arte Kunst Val Taro“, Bedonia/Parma, Italien |
| "Zwei Positionen", Gallery Wildes Weis Bremen | |
| 2020 | “Radici“, Opus in Artem im Castello di Compiano, Italien |
| 2015 | „Der nackte Menschen“ Gallery Subject – Object, Berlin |
| 2012 | „Junge Kunst im Bundesumweltministerium“ BMU, Bonn |
| 1997 | Gallery „Collegium artisticum“, Sarajevo |