Conrad Steen is a contemporary visual artist whose practice reflects a life shaped by migration and cultural movement, having lived in Vienna, Tokyo, Thailand, London, Berlin, Brussels, Brighton, and now Bucharest.
His work engages with discontinuity, exile, and the persistent struggle for identity, drawing on his own sense of disconnection and the search for belonging. Using ephemera such as bus tickets, printed matter, discarded images he transforms fragile remnants of daily life into visual meditations on memory, humour, and the human condition.
At the core of Steen’s practice is the legacy of the refugee and the psychic aftermath of displacement.
He explores how trauma and epigenetics carry forward unresolved histories, engaging with silences around loss, mortality, and the unspoken, while also tracing gestures toward transcendence and renewal.
His recent work reflects on thresholds between presence and absence, history and future, fragmentation and continuity as spaces where both pain and possibility reside.
While originating in intimate, small-scale formats, his works translate with striking force into large prints, producing interventions that are both contemplative and impactful. Now based in Bucharest and recently an Austrian citizen, Steen situates his practice within a dialogue between Austrian heritage and the evolving cultural landscape of post-communist Romania.
Currently represented by store street gallery.
link -http://www.storestreetgallery.com/artist/conrad-steen/?select-art=ueno
