Karin Hochstatter

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Karin Hochstatter (* 1960 in Cologne ) is a German sculptor and media artist .

Life

From 1980 to 1987 she studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Daniel Hees and Franz Eggenschwiler . Karin Hochstatter is a master student of Franz Eggenschwiler. In 1989 she received the Schloss Ringenberg grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1990 the Peter Mertes grant from the Bonner Kunstverein , in 1992 the Olevano Romano grant from the German Academy in Rome ( Villa Massimo ), and in 1996 the Friedrich Vordemberge grant from the city of Cologne. In 1998 Karin Hochstatter taught at the Institute for Art Education at the Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main. In 2000, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded her a foreign scholarship in London. Between 2001 and 2003 she taught as a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts , Mainz. In 2007 a guest stay at the EKWC (European Ceramic Work Center) 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands) followed. In 2008/09 Karin Hochstatter taught as a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts (HBK), Braunschweig. In 2014 she taught as Adjunct Associate Professor for Loyola Marymount University (LMU), Los Angeles. In 2016 she received a scholarship from the Bartels Fondation, Basel.

Karin Hochstatter is a member of the German Association of Artists . She lives and works in Cologne.

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Salon pieces 7
Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders
(Photo: Eberhard Weible)

Karin Hochstatter's work focuses on her sculptural-installation work. In addition, other media such as drawing, digital photo collage, film and video installation are part of her work.

In her sculptural work, the artist often makes use of everyday items and consumables, which are placed in new functional contexts and contexts of perception through the artistic process. The materials used are mostly mass products (e.g. building materials or foils), but unlike Arte Povera, they come from high-tech production processes. By processing (such as incisions or folds) and joining, the individual appearance of the elements used is faded out , unlike with the readymade or the objet trouvé . The resulting sculptural works are singular events in space, which can never be reconfigured in exactly the same way again. They alternate »between form and its dissolution, order and chaos, between a recognizable intention and apparent coincidence«. Sculptural improvisations of fragile states, "alternating between surface and space, between object and projection, image and image".

Exhibitions (selection)

POMP
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
construct!
German Association of Artists, Berlin

Solo exhibitions

  • 1990: Karin Hochstatter , Artothek, Cologne
  • 1993: Karin Hochstatter , Brandstetter & Wyss Gallery, Zurich and Solothurn
  • 1995: Tina Haase - Karin Hochstatter , Mannheimer Kunstverein (catalog)
  • 1996: Karin Hochstatter , Kunstverein Region Heinsberg , Heinsberg
  • 1998/99: Salon pieces 7 , Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach (catalog)
  • 2002: The drawing room p./vivar./bagheria , Kunsthaus Essen
  • 2008/09: POMP , Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum , Duisburg
  • 2012: Desolate Sculpture , artwork Cologne
  • 2013: Skop (KWMobil 3) , Krefeld Art Museum
  • 2015: continuum , Kunstverein Mönchengladbach
  • 2016: Phi , Moltkerei workshop, Cologne
  • 2016: all around , mh 17 - Bartels Fondation, Basel
  • 2016: "Et prend au sérieux les fantômes" (video installation for Museum Night Cologne at the invitation of art guests ), Kulturbunker Cologne
  • 2019: HUB NACH DIRECTION (with Katja Butt), Museum Zündorfer Defense Tower , Cologne
  • 2019: Kepler-452b (with Nicola Schrudde ), Forum for Art and Culture Herzogenrath e. V.
Salon pieces RELOADED
Art Museum Villa Zanders
(Photo: Michael Wittassek)

Group exhibitions

literature

Films about Hochstatter

  • 2014: Karin Hochstatter - The Unstoppable View , documentary by Ulla Kellerwessel, Germany 2013, 30 min., World premiere on April 13, 2014 in the Filmhauskino Cologne .

Web links

Commons : Karin Hochstatter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochstatter, Karin in the membership directory at www.kuenstlerbund.de , accessed on November 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Quoted from: Karin Hochstatter - continuum , press release of the MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach e. V., Mönchengladbach, 3/2015.
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Karin Hochstatter - continuum , press release of the MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach e. V., Mönchengladbach, 3/2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hochstatter, Karin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and media artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne