Kristian Kozul was born in Muenchen in 1975. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, and continued his studies at the Kunstakademie in Duesseldorf, Germany, graduating in 2002. His art was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA. He had solo shows at TZR Galerie, Duesseldorf, Germany; Galerie Anhava, Helsinki, Finland; and Goff and Rosenthal, New York, USA, among others.

My sculptures are reworked found objects or assemblages of found objects, incorporating parts entirely produced in my studio. The objects are chosen for their specific symbolism, quoted from popular culture and other forms of social  iconography. The object is there to serve as a platform for telling a story, its references to high or vernacular culture manipulated through the application of ornamental dermis.

The aesthetics of the final product are in stark opposition to the emotional/iconographical content of the original, found object. The applied envelope almost always renders the object useless, or at least highly impractical. 

Such conflict creates dramatic effect and accentuates references to popular culture. In some cases they lean more toward ethical or political references. Sometimes I combine a popular culture reference with irony or even dark humor of the darker kind (as in Discoware – Wheelchair , where a symbol of undesired or personal tragedy is glorified or at least made triumphantly appealing).