Over/Consumption: Diana Korn

4 July - 29 August 2025
Over/Consumption, Diana Korn
SmithDavidson Gallery  presents “Over/Consumption”, a new online viewing room featuring German artist Diana Korn. “Over/Consumption” explores the complex connection between consumer culture and self-identity through a striking series of mixed-media wall sculptures.
  • "Through my works, I aim to inspire reflection and contemplation, encouraging viewers to engage with the fundamental questions of our existence." - Diana Korn
  • Diana Korn is known for her bold and playful visual language, which often uses humor and irony to raise deeper...

    Diana Korn is known for her bold and playful visual language, which often uses humor and irony to raise deeper questions about modern society. In “Over/Consumption”, she presents large-scale capsules, each one a symbolic object reflecting on ideals, desires, and contradictions within contemporary life. These sculptural “Art Pills" serve as both commentary and critique, challenging viewers to think about what we consume, not just physically, but culturally and emotionally. In a society influenced by visual language through marketing and social media influencers, the risk of overindulging is ever-present.

     

    Using materials such as resin and acrylics, Korn blends pop-art aesthetics with conceptual depth. Her work invites audiences to consider how identity is shaped in a world dominated by branding, beauty standards, and material ambition.

     

    With “Over/Consumption”, Diana Korn continues to push boundaries, prompting critical reflection on the influence of consumerism in our everyday lives. SmithDavidson Gallery invites collectors, critics, and art enthusiasts alike to engage with Korn’s vibrant yet unsettling vision of the world we inhabit, and the one we help create through what we choose to consume.

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    Diana Korn, Adrenalin Pill – P1, 2025 (View more details about this item in a popup).
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    Diana Korn, Adrenalin Pill – P1, 2025
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  • About Diana Korn's work

    About Diana Korn's work

    Diana Korn's "Art Pill" works engage with societal development. She reflects on and questions our consumption behavior, which is characterized by contradictions and opposites. While lifestyle choices, advancements, and innovations enrich and advance our lives on one hand, they also distract us from the truly significant aspects of life on the other. In her "Art Pill" creations, Diana illuminates both the alluring and positive aspects of consumption as well as the often-suppressed negative consequences.

     

    In her reflective masterpieces, mirrors come to life, showcasing famous stars, pop art icons and old masters. She sculpts not just with materials, but with the very essence of light and shadow. Through the manipulation of angles and perspectives, she draws a new reality from the depths of the mirror. She breaks and shatters motifs to transfer their original perfection into the imperfect.

     

    An important and critical aspect of her work is how we perceive ourselves and others. Her work seamlessly fuses elements of modern architecture and design into the realm of light reflection sculpture, always striking a balance between straightforwardness and creative expressiveness.

  • About the Artist

    Diana Korn is an emerging German artist with international gallery presence. Her artistic work explores the ambivalence of societal development....
    Diana Korn at the SmithDavidson Gallery booth at Art Miami 2024.

    Diana Korn is an emerging German artist with international gallery presence. Her artistic work explores the ambivalence of societal development. Her current cycle of artwork reflects on and questions the polarity of our consumption behavior through a unique sculptural language. She often plays with societal notions of beauty and perfection, which is reflected in her mirror works through fractures. She often presents her artworks in a provocative, ambiguous and simultaneously playful manner. The influence of Pop Art plays a significant role in her work, with mirrors being one of the materials frequently used.

     

    “We often see only what is consciously presented as perfect, while the imperfect remains hidden. Every person, every masterpiece, or every icon has a story that is either unknown to us or not shown. These hidden truths can significantly alter our self-image and how we perceive others. Through my works, I aim to bring attention to these untold truths so that we do not pursue false ideals.”