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Christina Kral is a visual artist based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her work encompasses sculptural assemblage, installation, and painting. For her assemblage works, she uses object fragments that she finds on the street and gives them a new form and legibility by arranging and recombining them. In her painting practice, she is primarily interested in experimentally reapproaching and further developing established techniques. She also draws on processes outside the visual arts, such as gardening or cooking, and transfers them into her painting processes. She combines aspects of her painting and assemblage sculptures in her installations, for example, by spatializing painterly compositions.

Christina started her artistic career in 2008 in New York with an artist residency at Eyebeam. Followed by residencies at Columbia University (Teachers College, New York), Bric Contemporary Art in New York, Guapamacátaro in Michoacán, Mexico, and Gasworks in London, UK. She received multiple grants to support her work, most recently from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at art festivals such as Cafa Biennial in Beijing, China, the Mercosul Biennial in Porto Allegre, Brazil, or at X-Initiative, a temporary experimental non-profit project in the former Dia:Chelsea building in New York, directed by Cecilia Alemani. Her work was included at exhibitions at the Bauhausarchiv in Berlin, the Ludwig Mùzeum, Budapest, Hungary, and at Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin: Worin unsere Stärke besteht — 50 women artists from three generations of the GDR (German Democratic Republic).