Katinka Bock’s work is rooted in a discursive thought of sculpture and language. The shape is often a result of a working process where the rational and the unforeseen meet each other. She develops a body of work in sculpture, installation and photography that dialogues with architecture, uses and environments. She creates dialogues between materials, their stories and those of the encountered contexts. She takes care of the balances and imbalances of spaces and atmospheres, fully integrating the dimension of scenography into her work. Each of her installations defines a space and often seems to wrestle against the claustrophobia of the exhibition spaces; tending to open doors, windows, walls, holes by which to escape, or to let in rain or air. Firmly rooted in the field of sculpture, Katinka Bock’s art has remained permeable to the production of imagery – filmic, and above all, photographic. Photography constitutes what she calls the “periphery” of her work: a practice that she develops at its margins; but that also functions, between her and the world, as a threshold, as a site of porosity and experimentation. For about a decade, this photographic practice has notably flourished in the pages of a series of publications exclusively containing images: the One of Hundred. It also often appears within the artist’s exhibitions, in conjunction with her sculptures.
Katinka Bock (1976, Frankfurt/Main) has presented solo exhibitions at institutions such as Crac Occitanie in Sète (2023), Fondation Pernod Ricard in Paris (2023), La Loge in Brussels (2022), Artium Museum in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2021), Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover (2020), Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2019), Pivo in Sao Paulo (2019), Institut d’Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne (2018), Common Guild in Glasgow (2018) Mudam Luxembourg (2018), Kunst Museum Winterthur (2018), Mercer Union in Toronto (2017), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2016), Henry Art Gallery in Seattle (2014), and Mamco in Geneva (2013). Her work has been presented by the Public Art Fund in New York, and is on view in the city of Shanghai in the Jing’an Sculpture Park. Katinka Bock was a resident of the Villa Médicis in Rome. In 2012, she won the Prix de la Fondation d’entreprise Ricard and the Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis. In 2015, she obtained the Visual Arts Grant of the Fondación Botín. In 2019, she was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. Since 2013 Katinka Bock publishes the series One of Hundred, in cooperation with Louis Lüthi. She publishes regularly with Roma Publications, Mer Paperkunstalle, Abäke, Paraguay Press and Distanz and often collaborates with Morepublisher. Katinka Bock studied in Berlin and lives and works in Paris
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Silver, Crac Occitanie, Sète
Der Sonnestich, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris
2022 Common People, La Loge, Brussels
Fata Morgana, First edition of Jeu de Paume festival, Paris, France
2021 TREMBLINGS, Recent acquisitions by the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, NMNM, Villa Paloma, Monaco
Logbook, Artium, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2020 Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2019 Lafayette Anticipation, Paris, France
Avalanche, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2018 Radio, Tomorrow‘s sculpture, Institut d‘Art Contemporain (IAC), Villeurbanne, France
Radio Piombino, Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
Smog, Tomorrow‘s sculpture, Mudam, Luxemburg
Sonar, Tomorrow‘s sculpture, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2017 Mesonya/, Siobhan Davies Dance, London, United Kingdom
_O_O__O, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Horizontal Alphabet (black), MUCEM, Marseille, France
2015 Zarba Lonsa, Les Laboratoires d‘Aubervilliers, France
2014 Nebenwege, KIOSK, Gent, Belgium
Farben dieses Meeres, Städtische Kunsthalle Lüdenscheid, Germany
Tomorrow‘s Sculpture, Parc de sculpture La Petite Escalère, France
A and I, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013 40 Räuber, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES:
2019 Nominated for Prix Marcel Duchamp, Paris, France
2015 Visual Ars Grant at Fondación Botín, Santander, Espagne
2012 Residency, Villa Medicis, Roma, Italy
Prix de la Fondation d‘entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Allemagne
SELECTED PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Villa Paloma, Monaco
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Jumex, Mexico
Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco
Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin, Paris
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gall
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Mamco, Genève
Mudam, Luxembourg
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
La Petite Escalère | Jardin de sculptures, Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster
de Vleeshal, Middelburg
ZV Art, Paris
LES ABBATOIRS, Toulouse
FRAC Aquitaine
FRAC Bretagne, Rennes
Frac Champagne-Ardennes
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
lnstitut d’art Contemporain, FRAC Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Le Plateau, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
FRAC Lorraine
FRAC NORMANDIE – CAEN
FRAC NORMANDIE – ROUEN
FRAC Pays de la Loire
FRAC PACA, Marseille