Katrin Korfmann

Katrin Korfmann (* 1971 in Heidelberg ) is a German photographer and visual artist .

Life

Katrin Korfmann was born in Heidelberg in 1971 . From 1995 to 1996 she attended the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . She was Ulay's assistant (Uwe F. Laysiepen) from 1996 to 1997. She completed her training (1996–1999) at the Rietveld Academy ( Amsterdam , Netherlands ). Today she lives and works in Amsterdam.

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Her focus is on the seemingly ordinary, but her emphatically neutral gaze leads into a fictional world. In a cross-material and cross-media transfer process, situations such as For example, you can watch the waiting on the red carpet at the Berlinale with a photo or video camera , put it together into an image and present it as a light box or photograph. With this experimental streak in her art, she places the actual photographic motif on the sidelines of recognizability and creates an illusion of movement and expanded scenery.

Katrin Korfmann tries to create “ déjà-vu ” moments, whether in transit rooms or specially created installations. If you succeed in this, the recordings will be framed. Details are possibly left out in order to be able to manipulate emerging information. Her work is based on concepts from photography , whereby she deals with the question of “posing” and “acting” in public space. In her recordings, she captures random situations whose uncontrollability leads to surprises. The artist chooses the concept, but not the ultimate protagonists of her work.

Korfmann's works may be viewed as stage productions, which is reinforced by the presence of cameras. As soon as someone enters one of your installations, he is already part of your work. Either your cameras or installations are not noticed at all or you discover them and act confidently on the stage created for you personally. Transit areas such as B. the red carpet of the Berlinale or train stations are particularly attractive to the artist. These public spaces can be experienced in a wide variety of ways and yet contain moments of intimacy that the artist is really looking for in her work. In her compositions, Korfmann chooses an excerpt that enables her to make the respective situation transparent. This is expanded, extended in time and thus denies the "originality" of the actual magical moment. The implementation of this idea becomes clear in the work "waiting for Julia (3x10min)", where the artist takes part of the red carpet at different times and subsequently merges the individual images into a complete work. Often the viewer of the work becomes the subject of it. On the side of the "frame" as well as on the side of "being framed", it is even essential for the exhibition to work.

In many of her works, Katrin Korfmann also plays with the relationship between space and surface. In her work “gray 12min 30sec” from 2007, for example, she reflects the space as an image. In earlier works she also set up monochrome color surfaces in public places (e.g. “white wall”, 2000), which take away the depth of the space and reduce it to a surface structure. At the same time, however, her installation creates a new space that is related to the surroundings. In this way, she creates unoccupied rooms, whereby the colors allow a subjective interpretation and the surfaces a projection background. The real environment remains invisible, knowledge and context disappear, what remains is the time experienced in the newly created space.

Awards

2014 Chinese European Art Center, scholarship / China
2013 Mondriaan Fund, scholarship / Netherlands
2012 RADO STAR PRIZE, Switzerland
2011 Amsterdam Fund for the Arts / Netherlands
2010 Fund BKVB, Netherlands
2009 Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, scholarship, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2005 artist residency, Akademie der Künste / Berlin
2004 Fund BKVB / Netherlands
2004 Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 01, scholarship / Netherlands
2004 Nomination: KDR art RAI price / Netherlands
2004 Nomination: Prize of the Neue Nationalgalerie / Berlin
2003 Prix de Rome (2nd prize) / Netherlands
2003 Fund BKVB / Netherlands
2002 Fund BKVB / Netherlands
2001 Robert Bosch Foundation / Germany
2001 Citta dell'arte - Fondazione Pistoletto , artist residency, Biella / Italy
2000 Mama Cash Award / Netherlands
2000 Würth Foundation / Germany
1999 Esther Kroon / Netherlands

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2014 Ensembles Assemled, European Month of Photography Berlin, whiteconcepts, Berlin
2014 Ensembles assembled, Photoireland / Library Project, Dublin / Ireland
2014 Count for Nothing, Bau Xi Photo, Toronto / Canada
2013 Gallery ANDERSSON / SANDSTRÖM, Stockholm / Umeå / Sweden
2013 AMC Collection, Brummelkamp Gallery AMC, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2012 Gallery ANDERSSON / SANDSTRÖM, Stockholm / Sweden
2011 Art Amsterdam, with Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2011 Horizon Vanished, Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2010 Count for Nothing, European Month of Photography Berlin, whiteconcepts & Kai Hilgemann, Berlin
2010 VOLTA 6, Zaum Projects, Basel / Switzerland
2009 Zaum Projects, Lisbon / Portugal
2009 Waiting for Julia, artMbassy gallery, Berlin
2008 Imagine what is like, station square and tunnel, Hilversum / Netherlands
2005 L'Aparador, Museu Abellò, Mollet des Valles / Spain
2005 Flatten Image (ps), Academy of the Arts / Berlin
2004 Lift, 5 min 32 sec., Carl Berg Galerie, Los Angeles / USA
2003 Blue Octagon (DFOTO) (ps), Boulevard, San Sebastian / Spain
2003 Public Cube (ps), Prix de Rome / Schiphol Airport / Netherlands
2003 Art Spaces, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2003 Art Spaces, Galeria 44, Barcelona / Spain
2002 Cucina Mobile, W139, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2001 Counter-Strike, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2001 Viewing the Viewer, Galeria 44, Barcelona / Spain
2001 Cucina Mobile, Plus eV / Düsseldorf

Group exhibitions

2014 AIPAD Photography Show, New York / USA
2014 RAW art fair, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2014 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2013 The Miami Project, Miami / USA
2013 Starting Something, Beijing Design Week, Beijing / China
2013 WHITE, group show with Katrin Korfmann, Photography Museum, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2012 Passing Time, CuratorSquared, RE Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle / USA
2012 Passing Time, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown / USA
2012 ARCO, Madrid / Spain
2011 PULSE art fair, Los Angeles / USA
2011 Voorbeeld, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague / Netherlands
2011 ARCO, Madrid / Spain
2010 Sideways, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem / Netherlands
2010 KORFMANN & WOOKEY, CBK, Dordrecht / Netherlands
2010 Kosmos Kiosk, Art Association Giessen
2009 viennafair, Vienna / Austria
2009 Samuelis Baumgarte Gallery, Bielefeld
2009 Space Matrix 01, whiteconcepts, Berlin
2008 Start, Zaum Projects, Lisbon / Portugal
2008 Serial Photography, 2x2 projects, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2008 Sideways, Azad Gallery, Tehran / Iran
2008 Art Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 3xF, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Rostock
2008 UITBRAAK !, Meneer de wit, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2008 Scope Basel, Basel / Switzerland
2007 magie real, artMbassy gallery, Berlin
2007 MYSTERY, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York / USA
2007 Scope Basel, Basel / Switzerland
2007 Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam / Netherlands
2006 Real spaces, fictitious spaces, Fundación COFF, Edificio Tabacalera, San Sebastián / Spain
2006 Gray.Korfmann.Youngblood, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles / USA
2006 3xF, Women's Museum, Wiesbaden
2006 Quo Vadis, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2006 preliminary search, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2006 Scope New York, New York / USA
2006 3xF, Capital Studio ARD, Berlin
2005 Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery, Atlanta / USA
2005 Palm Beach Contemporary, Palm Beach / USA
2005 Marks of Honor, Foam, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2005 Marks of Honor, van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2005 Art Cologne, Cologne
2005 Art RAI, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2004 Zoom op Zuidas, De Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2004 Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles / USA
2004 4 Positions, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2004 Young Academy workshop, Academy of Arts / Berlin
2004 Uitgelicht 4, Westergasfabriek , Amsterdam / Netherlands
2004 Artforum Berlin, with Art Affairs / Berlin
2004 Art Cologne, with Art Affairs / Cologne
2004 Art in the Hinge, European Patent Office, The Hague / Netherlands
2003 Prix de Rome, GEM Museum voor actuele Kunst, The Hague / Netherlands
2003 Artforum, Berlin
2003 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague / Netherlands
2003 Art Brussels, Brussels / Belgium
2003 ARCO, Madrid / Spain
2002 Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein / Frankfurt a. M.
2002 Thresholding, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2002 Big Torino, International Biennale of Young Art, Torino / Italy
2002 Out of the Digital Domain, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine / USA
2002 Esther Kroon Prijs, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2002 Faces Chosen, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2002 Portretten uit de Collectie Van Zoetendaal, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague / Netherlands
2002 ARCO, Madrid / Spain
2002 Art Cologne, Cologne
2001 Plus.Quam.Perfekt, Museum Ludwig / Cologne
2001 Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2001 eme3 Dencity, CCCB, Barcelona / Spain
2001 Appearing Live, To do in B. / project space / Cologne
2001 Art Cologne, Cologne
2001 The Body's Performance, Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2001 ARCO, Madrid / Spain
2001 She Shows, Bagagehal Loods 6, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2000 Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam / Netherlands
2001 Illusions, Galeria 44, Barcelona / Spain
2001 Live Portraits, Projectroom Rijksakademie, Amsterdam / Netherlands

literature

"Ensembles Assembled", ed. Onomatopee, text contributions: Gregory Volk, Freek Lomme, 2014, ISBN 978-9491677199
"Count for Nothing", Ed. D'jonge hond, articles: Tina Rahimy, Nicole Loeser, Rogério Taveira, 2010, ISBN 978-90-89102-23-2
"Katrin Korfmann", Sideways in Tehran, 2008
"Selected Works 2001-2009", exhibition catalog, 2008
"DL81 B-767-300ER", 2006, ISBN 3-88331-100-6
"Katrin Korfmann Catalog", Ed. Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2006, ISBN 90-73985-06-4
"Katrin Korfmann selected Works 1999-2004", Ed. Art Affairs, Amsterdam / Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, text: James Scarborough

Web links

Katrin Korfmann's homepage
Katrin Korfmann at the WHITECONCEPTS gallery
Portrait of the artist (PDF; 74 kB) - Text comes from the exhibition catalog Katrin Korfmann Monograph 2000-2010 . (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Korfmann, Katrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German photographer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg