Each year, as part of the AUSGEZEICHNET series, former scholarship holders of the Kunstfonds Foundation exhibit their work at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. This year, the jury has chosen Felix Schramm (* 1970).

Schramm’s work focuses on space – its forms, its boundaries and their dissolution. For the Kunstmuseum Bonn, he is creating an installation that uses the interplay of construction and deconstruction to transform the very essence of the museum space. Felix Schramm’s group of works Spatial Intersections seems like the remnants of a collision between several walls and wall fragments. Jagged plasterboard and wooden elements break through the otherwise immaculate exhibition walls, cutting swathes into the white surfaces. Sharp edges and spikes protrude over the heads of the visitors, shaping new perspectives on the exhibition space. The work and the space itself become inseparably intertwined.

The connection between construction and demolition, order and disorder runs through Schramm’s entire oeuvre. It determines not only his spatial installations, but also his photographs, collages and what he calls his accumulations – compositions made of model parts, casts or material samples arranged on and in transparent cubes. These groups of works explore Schramm’s preoccupation with the two-dimensional surface and the relationship between space and the human body, which he brings together in his art.

Felix Schramm (* 1970 in Hamburg) studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florenz and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Jannis Kounellis and Walter Nikkels. He has exhibited at numerous institutions, including Kunsthaus Baselland, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin. In 2024, Felix Schramm received the six-month KUNSTFONDS-Scholarship worth 18.000 euros.  The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf.