James Krone is an American artist living and working in Berlin whose practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. Through a sustained engagement with process and material, Krone approaches painting as a durational and often unstable register—less a fixed image than a living surface responsive to time, entropy, and repetition. His work resists traditional compositional logic, favoring instead systems of accumulation, erasure, and recurrence that foreground painting as both object and event. Working with minimal gestures and iterative structures, Krone’s practice often engages with the conditions under which meaning, form, and image begin to dissolve or take shape.

Rather than staging pictorial clarity, Krone’s work draws attention to cycles of perception and the residues of making. His paintings operate as documents of interruption, recording the friction between authorial control and environmental contingency. This tension extends across his broader body of work, including sculptural and photographic investigations, where surface and substrate serve as sites for oblique narratives and deferred content. Living in Berlin since 2008, Krone has developed a practice marked by conceptual restraint and material acuity, offering a nuanced interrogation of abstraction, seriality, and the ambiguous thresholds of aesthetic experience.

James Krone (b. 1975, Chicago) lives and works in Berlin. Recent exhibitions include Wet Resistance at the Dortmunder Kunstverein (August, 2022), Dortmund, When There is No Laughing Matter Laughter Matters at the Halle für Kunst Lüneberg (2021), Lüneberg, Model of Dissolve at M LeBlanc, Chicago (2019), The Wolf and the Head on Fire (with Dawn Kasper) at Portikus, Frankfurt (2019), Annunciations (as curator) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2018), Four Scores: From Zero to Nothing (with Dawn Kasper), David Lewis Gallery, New York (2018), An Ornithology for Birds at Kavi Gupta, Chicago (2016) and The Collapse of the Mind’s Ordering System Leads to Some rather Wanton Developments (curated by Alexi Kukuljevic), Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2016). Krone's work has been written about in various online and printed publications including Artforum, Mousse Magazine and Modern Painters.

CURRICULUM VITAE

PRESS

EXHIBITIONS

September 24th to November 5th 2022
A Promise Of Happiness

October 18th to November 20th 2021
MOLOCH

March 13th to May 16th 2020
2020

April 26th to June 8th 2019
Model Of Dissolve

June 23rd to August 4th 2018
ANNUNCIATIONS

November 11th 2017 to January 8th 2018
SKIP TRACER