Gregor Kregar

Gregor Kregar was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972 and lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and Berlin, Germany. Unconfined to any single medium or material, Kregar’s sculptural practice incorporates a variety of materials including cardboard, ceramics, glass, stainless steel, plastics, photography, and new media. Particularly interested in the interactive element of public sculpture, Kregar often uses reflective materials such as stainless steel, aluminium, and subtle chameleon paints which rely on viewers movement in relation to the piece to reveal the hidden variability of the work. Often working at monumental scale, Kregar is involved in every aspect of production, from conception to installation.

Working in two broad fields of aesthetic enquiry – the figurative and the geometric – Kregar explores and reinterprets every day, mundane objects, shapes, situations and materials, to tackle issues of ambiguity and the uncanny. He is particularly interested in how a familiar subject can be represented in a way that displaces and fragments its original meaning, and proposes a new, unfamiliar one.