With an interest in stratified levels of creative activity and its varied manifestations, Bernd Krauss's practice references both the quotidian experience as well as the endeavors of high culture. While simultaneously embodying the hobbyist and the contemporary artist, Krauss employs traditional craft techniques as well as a conceptualized approach to production.
The opposition between form and content is amplified by an embedding of production into different cultural formats. This may best be understood through Krauss's engagement with various cultural institutions in the form of the artist’s commission. This collaborative model of production requires an adaptation of identity within the shifting contexts of each institution. The results reflect both the potential, as well as the limitations of this power dynamic. Possible outcomes may involve workshops, exhibition curating/production, public interventions and analog or digital monitoring of some of them.

Since 1999 Krauss is editor in chief of DER RIECHER, a magazine that explores the format of the newspaper in the day-to-day battle with information. “Your friend is my enemy” or “Write your RIECHER before the neighbours do” are slogans that are handy to start the day. (derriecher.blogspot.com)