Henry Krokatsis

ABOUT

Henry Krokatsis works with a wide range of materials, from found wood to smoke, used votive candles and old mirrors. Despite their disparate nature, his works share a profound commonality; in liquifying then reconfiguring these discarded materials, the works test our assumptions about function, value and status.

The elaborate nature of the labour involved in much of Krokatsis’ work hints at an obsessive behaviour that is quietly unsettling, this sits in contrast to the seductive craftsmanship and lure of the materials in their new context.

The marriage of make-do opportunism and highly developed craft skill is, what Krokatsis terms “an act of faith in the bankrupt ... I want to make objects that oscillate between the destitute and the divine”.

Krokatsis has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London.

Selected solo exhibitions include House of the Indifferent Fanatic, Borders Sculpture Park, Berwickshire (2019); Saunakabin, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, Sussex (2018); Household Faith, Vigo Gallery, London (2018); Henry Krokatsis with Vilhelm Hammersøi, Ordrupgaard Museum (2015); Origin of the Black Rainbow, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo (2013); Part Time Paradise, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2012) and Like a Gang of Virtue, FAS, London (2010).

Selected group exhibitions include Frieze Sculpture Park, London (2016); Art Park Ordrupgaard (2015); WARP & WOOF, The Hole, New York (2014); I Cheer A Dead Man’s Sweetheart, De la Warr Pavilion, Sussex (2014); Painting Without Paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen (2012); London 12, Prague City Museum (2012); Themes & Variations, Script and Space, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (2011) and A Fire In The Masters House Is Set, Chapter, Cardiff (2011).

Krokatsis is represented in the collections of the Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; New Art Gallery Walsall and the UK Government Art Collection.