Katrin von Maltzahn

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Katrin von Maltzahn (born February 11, 1964 in Rostock ) is a German professor , painter and graphic artist . She lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig.

Life

From 1985 to 1991 she studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, with Raimund Girke , and at the Cooper Union in New York, with Jack Whitten , Don Kunz and Robert Slutzky .

1997/1998 Lecturer: “Common Sense of Color”, Aesthetic Practice / Artistic Basics, Berlin University of the Arts , Faculty of Design.

2002–2005 Lecturer: "Camouflage - Color Between People and Houses", Aesthetic Practice / Artistic Basics, Berlin University of the Arts, Faculty of Design.

2005–2007 scholarship holder of the Dorothea Erxleben program and teaching assignments at the Braunschweig University of Art .

In the spring of 2009 she was appointed professor for printmaking at the University of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig.

In her teaching, von Maltzahn is known for her multidisciplinary cooperation projects, such as B. “Beyond the Line” (Braunschweig 2007, Johannesburg 2009) or “Interface Print” (Leipzig, since 2010).

Katrin von Maltzahn is a member of the German Association of Artists .

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In her work, Katrin von Maltzahn examines the meanings of different sign systems. With her starting point in painting, she works across technologies. Since the mid-nineties she has developed a second focus in printmaking through close collaboration with the copper printer Niels Borch Jensen, Copenhagen. In the contemporary field of printmaking, she has contributed to giving printed works of art an autonomous status and treating them on the same level as unique pieces. This means that it is not primarily conceived in terms of printmaking categories from the 1960s (number of copies, democratic art), but rather as an adequate means of expressing artistic ideas.

Gerrit Gohlke wrote about her 2012 exhibition at the Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam: “Katrin von Maltzahn's exhibition 'Alphabet' shows a world of signs and drawing machines - which, under the artist's hand, break free from the familiar order. From the computer component to the library floor plan, the artist develops ciphers which, however, free themselves from their functions. In the end, the sign is stronger than the alphabet. "

Exhibitions (selection 2007–2012)

  • 2012 - Alphabet, BKV Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam
  • 2012 - on moons, maps and butterflies, Katrin von Maltzahn & Ebba Matz, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
  • 2011 - Familiarity, Vantaa Artmuseum, Vantaa, Finland
  • 2010 - / + \ = X, serialworks studio, Capetown, South Africa
  • 2009 - coordinates MV. On the essence of change, Schwerin State Museum
  • 2009 - Three private views, Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin
  • 2008 - Hybrid, Architektur Galerie Berlin - Werkraum (with Modersohn & Free Life, Architects)
  • 2008 - 50 years of documenta - Archive in motion, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2007 - The Power of Language, Akademie der Künste am Pariser Platz, Berlin
  • 2007 - Kempelen - Man in the Machine, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest & ZKM Karlsruhe
  • 2007 - Jorge Luís Borges visited Melbourne for 10 days, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne
  • 2007 - 50 years of documenta - Archive in motion, Zendai MoMa, Shanghai, China & National Museum of Singapore

Publications (selection)

  • von Maltzahn, Katrin: Records, Journal, Survey , argobooks Berlin, Berlin 2012
  • Modersohn & Free Life; von Maltzahn, Katrin: Hybrid , argobooks Berlin, Berlin 2008
  • von Maltzahn, Katrin; Christopher, Natasha (Ed.): Beyond the Line - Johannesburg , Wits School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2009
  • von Maltzahn, Katrin; Grzymala, Monika (Ed.): Beyond the Line - Braunschweig , University of Fine Arts Braunschweig and Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig 2007
  • von Maltzahn, Katrin: Katrin von Maltzahn 1996-99 , Wiens Verlag, Berlin 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Berlin artist Katrin von Maltzahn receives a call to the HGB ; Press release of the College of Graphics and Book Art from April 7, 2009 (accessed December 30, 2012)
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Maltzahn, Katrin von ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on November 11, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  3. ↑ Quoted from Gerrit Gohlke: http://www.bkv-potsdam.de/katrin-von-maltzahn-alphabet Katrin von Maltzahn: Alphabet , BKV Potsdam eV, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Maltzahn, Katrin von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock