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 struggle for identity, transforming fragments of daily life into visual meditations on memory, humour, and the human condition.
Shaped by early encounters with violence and loss, and by the influence of an artist uncle whose life and death left a lasting imprint, Steen’s practice traces the fine line between trauma and transcendence. He explores how silence and inheritance carry unresolved histories, while intimacy, desire, and irony open spaces for renewal.
Now based in Bucharest, Steen recently became an Austrian citizen. He situates his practice within a dialogue between his Austrian heritage and the shifting cultural landscape of post-Communist Romania.
