Casper BRAAT

The work of Casper Braat presents the everyday as pure extravagance, a perspective that is driven by his profound fascination with consumer society.  

No matter where one is in the world, consumption is deeply entrenched into daily life. Our society values convenience over all else, a drive underlined by a need for luxury, with a fetish for the new. Brands and corporations reign supreme and significantly shape the global capitalist culture. Objects became part of who we are and add status to someone’s existence.

Casper’s sculptures and installations glorify the everyday by lifting the ordinary onto a pedestal. Monumental in material, his work is made to last forever, memorialising the excess of the present for future generations. 

Technically sharp, with keen attention to detail and wholeheartedly sleek, Casper’s sculptures, installations and films appear perfectly polished from the surface, but this sublimely static representation of reality is only a mirror held up to the observer. The problematic condition of our indulgent culture becomes clear underneath, and the viewer is asked to wait for their reflection to crack. 

With the use of classical production methods, with an emphasis on the handmade, along with his use of materials such as marble and gold, he elevates the common to the iconic and makes the superficial substantive.

We should celebrate our commercialised world, imperfections and all, at least while we still can.

Casper Braat, Amsterdam (1991)

In 2015 Casper Braat graduated from the designLAB department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA), with the ‘McJezus’’ installation. In 2019 he attended the Sandberg Institute Dirty Art Department (MA).

Since 2018, Casper has been represented by Torch Gallery. His first solo show, ‘Forever’, opened in September 2020. ‘Forever’ (2020-current) consists of everyday home appliances that have been made into timeless marble sculptures. Later, sculptures in this series were presented during Design Week Eindhoven in 2022 and 2024.

In 2023, the ‘Departures’ project was presented for the first time. This installation contains a series of airport sculptures in a passenger terminal, along with an automated vending machine for marble sculptures and the 12-hour film ‘Waiting in Limbo’.

In 2024, during his residency at the Chinese European Art Centre Xiamen (CN), Casper Braat made the film ‘Work in Process’ in which he carves a cubic meter of marble into a cubic centimeter over a 20-day period. This film marks the beginning of his ‘Work in Progress’ installation, a replication of Casper Braat’s marble carving atelier. 

His latest project ‘Work in Progress’ is based around a fictive carving studio. The sculpture series was first previewed during a solo presentation at Enter Art Fair (Copenhagen, DK) and is exhibited fully in a solo show at TORCH Gallery (Amsterdam, NL) in 2025 and at Art Rotterdam 2025 (NL). 

Since 2023, all Casper Braat’s commissioned films are represented by 100% Film Amsterdam, where Casper Braat and Lernert Engelberts collectively work under the name: Another Duo. www.another-duo.com Together, they create impactful work of enduring value that blur traditional commercial and fine art boundaries, which has earned them industry accolades and awards.