Casper Braat (b. 1991, Amsterdam) is a sculptor and installation artist whose work transforms everyday objects into enduring monuments, exploring the intersection of consumer culture, artisanal labor, and symbolic excess. His artistic vision reimagines the ordinary—household appliances, branded objects, tools—as vessels of meaning, elevating the banal to near-divine status by rendering them in marble, metal, and film.
Braat earned his BA from the designLAB department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2015, where he first made waves with an installation titled McJezus. He went on to pursue an MA at the Sandberg Institute’s Dirty Art Department, solidifying his interest in the tension between craft and concept. Over time he has developed a signature approach: insisting on technical precision, classical materiality, and refined aesthetic polish even as his works critique the scale and logic of consumption.
His early conceptual works included provocative pieces like Marble Justin Bieber and Reflection of Superman, in which he interrogated celebrity, branding, and identity using iconography rendered in uncommon forms. As his practice matured, Braat turned more explicitly toward sculptural series such as Forever (debuted in 2020 a collection of marble renditions of quotidian appliances. His Departures installation (2023) recontextualized terminal architecture and vending machines in sculpted form, presenting the airport as a stage for the commodification of human experience.
In 2024 and 2025, Braat expanded the ambit of his work with Work in Progress, a project begun during a residency at the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen. There, he documented the process of carving a cubic meter of marble down to a cubic centimeter over 20 days, and translated that labor into a film and immersive installation.
Braat's work continues to push the boundaries between cultural critique and material seduction. By monumentalizing the mundane, he invites audiences to reconsider both the objects that saturate our lives and the hidden systems that sustain them.
