Katharina Bach (artist)

Katharina Bach in March 2007

Katharina Bach (born June 8, 1959 in Berlin ) is a German painter , graphic artist and sculptor .

Life

Katharina Bach is the second child of Helmut and Traute Bach, née Schendel. She was baptized with the name Anne Katharina Bach.

After graduating from high school in 1978, she studied at the Berlin University of the Arts until 1985 . There she dealt with nature studies, still lifes and investigations into the possibilities of painting materials and later became interested in human movement. In 1985 she became a master student . She subsequently created numerous studies on motion sequences, supported by the study of motion photography by Eadweard Muybridge . After studying human movement for several years, Katharina Bach expanded her interest in figure movement and turned to the principle of movement in general. In 2005 the Fluss group was founded and in 2006 the META association was founded.

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Berlin former border crossing Chausseestrasse 1993. Work of art Von den 7 Türme by Katharina Bach.

Her complete oeuvre includes around 4000 paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures and ceramics. Katharina Bach's work is characterized by a variety of artistic forms of expression.

The fall of the Berlin Wall inspired Bach to create installations that were positioned at the former inner-city Berlin border crossings. Katharina Bach wrote about this in 1993: The border crossings between the west and the east of Berlin have left their mark. Especially in the memory of those who lived before - or behind. For the residents of Berlin, it wasn't just border crossings, they were controlled concrete lanes: entrances or exits to another world. Today (1993) these are places that have remained free. They signal absurd emptiness in the inner-city area. Former no man's land, through which one somehow moves carelessly. The seven towers of this project refer to seven of the earlier border crossings between East and West Berlin . In each of the individual tower sculptures there are abstract symbols for typical features of the respective transition point.

In addition to classic materials such as oil paint, tempera and canvas, Katharina Bach uses telephone book paper, acid-treated metals, polished or acid-etched wire hangers, license plates of the former Soviet army , toothbrushes , cherry stones, crispbread , wood , in particular in her three-dimensional works . Rubber and plastic pipes.

Awards, grants, awards

• 1989–91 studio grant from the Karl Hofer Society , Berlin
• 1991 scholarship in Stockholm , Sweden
• 1996 Working grant from the Senate Administration for Science , Berlin
• 1998 Scholarship from the Academy of Arts Villa Serpentara Olevano Romano , Italy
• 2002 Tempelhof-Schöneberg Art Prize , Berlin

Solo exhibitions

• 1986 Phases, Tempelhof Art Office , Berlin
• 1988 Between Spaces, Berlin Art Office
• 1990 Body color space, characters, Office for Art, Berlin, Zehlendorf, Zehlendorf
• 1992 Vital Signs, Gleditsch 45, Berlin
• 1993 Silence and Disturbance studio bildende kunst, Berlin Treptow Schatten, with B. Rudolph Galerie C. Weber Berlin, Dangerous Area, installation in the showcase of the Berliner Festspiele , Wittenbergplatz underground station
• 1994 Objets retrouvés, Galerie Weißer Elefant, Berlin
• 1995 Zeitschichten, Tempelhof Art Office, Tempelhof Berlin Decade, Gleditsch 45, Berlin
• 1996 Things - Play, Neue Galerie Kunstverein Erlangen, Erlangen Peintures - Objets, Galerie Karina Piluso Aix-en-Provence , France Zeitschichten, Galerie Feiter and Drees, Hanover
• 1998 Everyday Melody, Kunstverein, Bad Säckingen , with E. Baumert
• 2000 Before and after Zone F Berlin Histoires sans Paroles Galerie Art'Mosphère, Vence France
• 2001 Stories without Words, Drees Gallery , Hanover
• 2004 Icons of everyday life, Art Association Genthiner 11, Berlin Everyday Miracles, Gallery Am Alten Garten, Siegen Everything visible, Max Planck Institute in the Charité , Berlin
• 2007 Teamwork, Galerie Laik, Koblenz Teamwork : calm landscapes and floral gallery at the Old Garden, Siegen

literature

• Bach, Katharina: body color space characters. Paintings, drawings and object pictures 1984–1990. Office for Art in cooperation with the Zehlendorf Music School. Berlin 1990.
• Bach, Katharina: Phases - 1984 - 1986. Katharina Bach. Catalog. Berlin.
• D ´Ambrosio, Claudio: Experiment Raum, exhibition publication by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Berlin 1990.
• Jahnke, Josephine: Berlin transitions. Katharina Bach: Of seven towers. Pp. 114-124. Photographs by Sibylle Bergemann . An exhibition in the Kunsthalle am Zoo. Budapester Strasse 42-46, 10787 Berlin from October 3 to 29, 1994.
• Karl Hofer Society, Berlin. Friends of the Berlin University of Fine Arts: reflections and reactions. Reflectors and reactioners. Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin, Stockholm 1991. An exhibition in the Westend train station in Berlin from October 3 to 14, 1991.
• Changes. From a means of communication to an art object. An exhibition in the rotunda of the music and congress hall in Lübeck on May 22, 1995.

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• Holzmann, Thilo: Interview with the Berlin painter Katharina Bach , November 2008
• Jahnke, Josephine: Berlin transitions. Katharina Bach: Of seven towers. Pp. 114-124. Photographs by Sibylle Bergemann . An exhibition in the Kunsthalle am Zoo. Budapester Strasse 42-46, 10787 Berlin from October 3 to 29, 1994

Web links

Commons : Katharina Bach  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Katharina Bach in the catalog of the German National Library