Kathrin Wolkowicz´s work spans from performance, installation, objects and books to film and video, and is usually kindled by self-written or adapted texts. It is a proposal of time-based or spatial situations that invite for re-reading one´s relationships with objects and bodies; how we dwell, spend our time and share the space with others.
For some of her recent works the artist has exchanged the studio for the street to lay out common grounds with inhabitants of areas affected by city development.
Kathrin Wolkowicz studied at Kunstakademie Münster, University of Art Braunschweig and holds an MA Fine Art degree from the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam. A substantial part of her practice is working collectively, as founding member of Sils Projects, programmer for Suburban Video Lounge, part of 004-collective and Borgerstraat publication collective. She lives and works in Rotterdam.
wrapped blue - installation view at Hilton Art Lab, 2020, as part of the exhibition "This Is"
wrapped blue - (tissue paper, monitors, media players, digital files, chiffon)
Outbuilding/s - Outbuilding/s is a project by Bérénice Staiger, Wilma Kun and Kathrin Wolkowicz which took place during summer/autumn 2020 as part of the festival Charlois Speciaal. For the first show The Red Line, Outbuilding/s has marked a rectangle with an orange ribbon with the exact measurements of the exhibition space (which had not been built at that time).
Outbuilding/s : The Red Line - Guided tours through the imaginative exhibition were offered to the visitors during the South Explorer weekend in June 2020 – an invitation to visualize the works with one´s inner eye. Bérénice Staiger, Wilma Kun and Kathrin were the mediators of this exhibition experience, as part of their project Outbuilding/s.
simpering - in situ happening for PiPe performance festival, 2019 in Dordrecht.
The artist lingers around during the performance festival, refusing interaction with the audience. She cleans, sleeps, drinks or eats in the festival space. When talked to, she refers to her LED badge.
elide - performance, on view at PiPe performance festival, 2019 organised by Pictura in Dordrecht
bird´s eye view - In response to a working period in Rabot, Gent, Wolkowicz developed a series of objects that reflect encounters and activities with a number of inhabitants in Rabot, an area in transition due to city development. bird´s eye cinema displays the titles of the films and their screening dates which the artist shared in an improvised setting in a backyard in Rabot.
minus one park - minus one park is another work that resulted from the project Befriending Rabot, Gent, which Wolkowicz conducted in Belgium (kindly supported by CBK Rotterdam, pilot.be and Stijn van Dorpe)
Borgerstraat Publications 2015-2019 - As part of the self-publishing collective Borgerstraat Publications, Kathrin has edited 5 editions. Each year, a new publication has been launched during the Art Rotterdam Week, parallel to the art fair; zooming in on a thematic issue and displaying the Borgerstraat artists´ and guest artists´ works.
