Julia Venske and Gregor Spänle, born in 1971 and 1969 respectively, live and work in New York and Munich. They began collaborating on artwork in 1991. Their sculpture and installation work has been shown in Bolivia, India, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, Argentina, Japan, Belgium and South Africa, as well as throughout the United States. In 2007 they begin a massive publicly funded sculpture project in Carrera, Italy.

Venske & Spänle, in their works, "play with the ability of sculpture to accompany humans," as the artists themselves describe it. "Like a different species [the sculptures] live with people. They form a parallel universe, a species of 'organic' beings operating in groups poised to populate within society. Using steady materials such as stone or aluminum they will give testimony of their exhistance within our culture." Working with marble, cast aluminum and bronze, video work and mixed-media installation, the artists manage to reference minimalism, classisism, modernism and conceptualism.

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