installations
site specific public installation art photography site-specific art installations art Michael Krondl public art
Po Hladině/Waterwalk
Prague 2003
Waterwalk was created
as a memorial for the first
anniversary of the floods
that devastated Prague
in the summer of 2002.
On the invitation of the
Centrum pro současné
umění Praha/Prague
and in cooperation
with the Serpens Group.
Krondl covered the floor
of the former Palmovka
Synagogue with a large
photograph of the
surface of the Vltava
river. Visitors were
invited to walk
across the “flooded”
interior of the building.
Image size:
33 by 39 ft
(10 by 12 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Icewalk
New York 2005
This site-specific
project was part of
Meteorologic Phenomena,
an exhibition at
Wave Hill, a garden
and cultural center
on the banks
of the Hudson River.
Visitors who wanted
to see the summer
exhibit had no choice
but to walk over
a photograph
of ice flows.
The image itself
was a photograph
of the Hudson River
as sheets of ice floated
past New York City.
Image size:
170 by 100 in
(4.3 by 2.5 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Fence
Baltimore 2004
Fence was included in
Sculpture at Evergreen,
an exhibition that responded
to the grounds and history of
Evergreen House. The image,
a garden of rose thorns,
covered the old greenhouse
foundations of the estate. In the
course of the exhibition,
actual vegetation gradually
overgrew the simulated.
Image size:
5 by 60 ft (1.5 by 18 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Wave
New York 2005
Like many of Krondl’s
pieces, the trompe l’oeil
effect of Wave had
an especially threatening
quality. It was installed at
as part of their on-going
projects series. From the
interior, the tsunami reference
was unmistakable through
surfing was also not far
from many viewers’ minds.
Image size:
19 by 23 ft
(5.8 by 7 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Fall
New York 2007
Krondl has referred to Fall as a Frankenstein-like step child of
the Hudson River School of painting. Here, nature is threatening rather
than sublime. The digitally
manipulated photograph originates
in a tributary of the Hudson.
Appropriately, the installation
was only a few steps from
the banks of the great river.
Image size:
9.5 by 66 ft
(3 by 20 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
March Swamp
Omi 2006
March Swamp was part
of a group exhibition
of large-scale outdoor
photographs curated
by Peter Franck
and Kathleen Heike Triem
at The Fields Sculpture
Park at Art Omi.
Krondl reproduced
part of the landscape
with a photo shot
in March. Even as
the barren image
remained the same,
the surroundings
transformed
with the seasons.
size:
99 by 159 in
(2.5 by 4 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Fall (Charlotte)
Charlotte, NC 2010
The installation piece first exhibited in New York was reimagined for a corporate bank building lobby.
Image size:
19 by 36 ft (6 by 11 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
Splash (LMCC)
New York 2010
The site specific piece was created for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council annual “Downtown Dinner.” (installation view)
7 by 31 ft (2 by 9.5 m)
Digital print on vinyl.
