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Aglaia Konrad is a photography-based artist whose work has focused mainly on metropolitan urban space. She was an advising researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and now teaches at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions in Siegen, Antwerp, Geneva, Graz, Cologne and New York, among other cities, as well as in international group shows such as ‘Documenta X’ (1997), ‘Cities on the Move’ (1998-1999) and ‘Talking Cities’ (2006). Her work has been documented in several exhibitions catalogues and monographic publications such as Elasticity (2002) and Iconocity (2005). For her book ‘Desert Cities’ (2008) she received the Infinity award for the best photo book 2009 of the International Center for Photography, New York. The book ‘Carrara’ (2011) won the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011. In 2016 she published ‘From A to K’ (Buchhandlung Walther König).
Her works can be found in numerous public collections: Muhka Antwerpen, FOMU Antwerpen, Frac Hauts de France, FRAC Centre Loire, CNAP Paris, MuZee Ostende, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MGK Siegen, etc.