Katie Paterson

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Katie Paterson, in conversation with Margaret Atwood 2019

Katie Paterson (born 1981 in Glasgow , United Kingdom ) is a Scottish artist . In her art she deals with topics of ecology , geology and cosmology . Her work is conceptually oriented and she uses a variety of media.

life and work

Paterson completed a bachelor's degree at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) from 2000 to 2004 and received a Master of Fine Arts from Slade School of Art in 2007 .

Important solo exhibitions have been shown at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2014), BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (2012) and Modern Art Oxford (2008).

Paterson lives and works in Berlin and Glasgow . She received the South Bank Award in the Visual Arts category in 2014 and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh .

Future Library project

Paterson's Future Library project ( Framtidsbiblioteket in Norwegian ) is a public work of art that will collect an original work by a well-known writer each year from 2014 to 2114. The works will remain unread and unpublished until 2114. The first author of the project was the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature Margaret Atwood with Scribbler Moon . In October 2019, the Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgård was announced as the sixth author of the project.

To store the manuscripts, Paterson designed a room in the new Deichmanske bibliotek (Oslo City Library). A thousand trees were planted in the Nordmarka district of Oslo as part of the project .

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Ancient Darkness TV . 2009.
  • The Dying Star Letters . 2010.
  • Inside this desert . BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna 2012.
  • Future Library . Deichmanske bibliotek, Oslo, early 2020 - 2114.

Group exhibitions

  • 100 trillion Suns . Venice Bienale 2011.
  • Modern One . National Galleries Scotland, October 2019 - May 2020.

Literary works

literature

  • Jon Bewley, Jonty Tarbuck (Eds.): Katie Paterson. A fraction of a second . Kerber, Bielefeld 2016. ISBN 978-3-7356-0261-9 .

Web links

Commons : Katie Paterson  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katie Paterson . (English, accessed October 23, 2019)
  2. ^ Katie Paterson (Bawag Contemporary) .
personal data
SURNAME Paterson, Katie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , UK