Katinka Bock’s work is rooted in a discursive thought of sculpture and language. The shape is often a result of a working process where the rational and the unforeseen meet each other.
Each of her installations defines a space and often seems to wrestle against the claustrophobia of the exhibition spaces; tending to open doors, windows, walls, holes by which to escape, or to let in rain or air.
Katinka Bock’s work is rooted in a discursive thought of sculpture and language. The shape is often a result of a working process where the rational and the unforeseen meet each other.
Each of her installations defines a space and often seems to wrestle against the claustrophobia of the exhibition spaces; tending to open doors, windows, walls, holes by which to escape, or to let in rain or air.
Katinka Bock studied at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts of Lyon. She was an artist-in residence at Villa Medicis in Rome, and was awarded with the Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis in Germany, the Prix Ricard in France and he has been nominated to the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2019. She also received the production prize of Fundacion Botin in Spain.
She has had solo exhibitions a.o. at Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and Nuremberg Kunstverein Germany; MAMCO, Geneva and Kunstmuseum Luzern,
Switzerland; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA; Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada; Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland.
In 2018 she’s actually showing her trilogy exhibition project Tomorrow‘s sculpture in Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Mudam Luxemburg, Luxemburg and Institut d‘Art
Contemporain Villeurbanne, France. Her recent solo projects has been on hold at Pivo in Sao Paulo, Brasil, Lafayette Anticipation in Paris, France and Kestnergesellschaft Hannover,
Germany.
Since 2013 ongoing publishing series One of Hundred, Katinka Bock in cooperation with Louis Lüthi.
Regular publications with Roma Publications, Mer Paperkunstalle, Abäke and Paraguay Press.
She is represented by Jocelyn Wolff, Paris, Meyer Riegger Berlin and Greta Meert, Bruxelles and 303 in New York.
