Valerie Krause Germany, b. 1976

Valerie Krause’s sculptural practice investigates the relationship between objects and the spaces they inhabit, exploring how form, material, and context converge to shape perception. Working with elemental materials such as plaster, glass, steel, wood, and concrete, she challenges their conventional meanings, transforming them into carriers of tension, movement, and quiet resonance. Her works often occupy a space between geometric precision and organic suggestion. Through careful composition, they generate environments that invite new spatial experiences— balancing mass and void, weight and lightness, stasis and flow. Though her installations often reflect a sense of rational structure, intuition plays a central role in her process. Krause responds instinctively to the materials and their physical presence, allowing gestures and rhythms to guide the evolution of each piece. What emerges are sculptures that do not impose fixed meanings, but rather act as open questions—forms that invite reflection, connection, and reconsideration, rather than offering definitive statements. Her works create atmospheres, activating the spaces they occupy with quiet, yet persistent, energy.