Katrin Korfmann
Owing to her background in photography, Katrin Korfmann’s work in various media – photo-works, videos and installations – is concerned with concepts of framing, perspective, and the social dimensions of perception, and pushes the boundaries of photography and representation. An important determinant in her work are observations of specific public places, made visible through the presentation of different sequential incidents that have been registered within a given period and location, in one single spatial arrangement.
The issue of responsibility for the existence of an image, the choice of the right moment and the framing that determines an image also play an important role in her work.
Korfmann’s work maybe characterized by a formal level of composition, structure and spatiotemporal experience, that is aimed at the registration and investigation of social constructions and behavior in public space.
Since the late 1990s her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art institutions and public spaces. Her work is represented in numerous private and public international collections. She won several prizes for her work, including Radostar Prize (CH), Prix de Rome (2nd prize) and the Esther Kroon Award (NL) and received grants from international institutions like Robert Bosch and Würth Foundation, Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE) and Mondriaan Fund (NL). Additionally to her artistic practice she is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, Germany and lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she specialised in photography and continued her research with residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Cittadellarte in Biella and the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, China.
Artist Info
Biography
Born in 1971 in Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Education
2000/2001
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
1996-1999
Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam/NL
1997/1998
Assistant to Ulay (Uwe F. Laysiepen)
1995/1996
University of Fine Arts, Berlin-Weissensee/DE
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2014
Chinese European Art Center, residency grant, Xiamen/CN
2013
Mondriaan Fund, basic stipend, NL
2012
RADO STAR PRIZE SWITZERLAND, winner
2011
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, development grant, NL
2010
Fonds BKVB, publication grant, NL
2009
Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, residency grant, Amsterdam/NL
2005
Academy of Fine Arts, residency grant/DE
2004
Fonds BKVB, Grant/NL
Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 01, residency grant/NL
Nomination: KDR kunst RAI prize/NL
Nomination: prize of the national gallery, Berlin/DE
2003
Prix de Rome public art, 2nd prize/NL
Fonds BKVB, Grant/NL
2002
Fonds BKVB, Grant/NL
2001
Robert Bosch Foundation, Grant/DE
Citta dell’arte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Residency, Biella/IT
2000
Mama Cash Award/NL
Foundation Wuerth, Grant/DE
1999
Esther Kroon Award/NL
Solo exhibitions and projects in public space
2019
Back Stages, Teylers Museum, Haarlem/NL
2018
Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
Back Stages, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto, CA
2017
KVdL art collection, Amsterdam/NL
2016
665 km, Berlinartprojects, Berlin/DE
2015
Hui´an, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam/NL
Ensembles assembled, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam/NL
2014
I am a Mountain, with Jens Pfeifer, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam/NL
Ensembles assembled, European Month of Photography, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
Ensembles assembled, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
Ensembles assembled, Photoireland /Library Project, Dublin/IRL
Bau Xi Photo, Toronto/CA
Ensembles assembled, Onomatopee, Eindhoven/NL
Count for Nothing, Bau Xi Photo, Toronto/CN
Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen/CN
2013
Gallery ANDERSSON/SANDSTRÖM, Stockholm/Umea/SE
AMC Collection, Brummelkamp Galerie AMC, Amsterdam/NL
2012
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
OFOTO Gallery, Shanghai/CN
Kolorit, European Month of Photography, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin/DE
Gallery ANDERSSON/SANDSTRÖM, Stockholm/SE
2011
Art Amsterdam, with Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Horizon Vanished, Gallery Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
2010
Count for Nothing, European Month of Photography Berlin, WHITECONCEPTS@Gallery Kai Hilgemann, Berlin/DE
VOLTA 6 with Zaum Projects, Basel/CH
2009
2x2projects, Amsterdam/NL
Count for Nothing, Art Affairs project room, New York/USA
Seesaw, Station Hilversum, subway, commission, NL
Count for Nothing, Zaum Projects, Lisbon/PT
Goethe Institute, Hong Kong/CN
Waiting for Julia, Gallery artMbassy, Berlin/DE
2008
Imagine what is like (p.s.), Central Station, Hilversum/NL
2006
Scope New York with Art Affairs, New York/USA
2005
L’Aparador, Museu Abellò, Mollet des Valles/ES
Flatten Image (p.s.), Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin/DE
2004
Lift, 5 min.32 sec., Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
Blue Octagon (DFOTO) (p.s.), Boulevard, San Sebastian/ES
2003
Public Cube (p.s.), Prix de Rome/Schiphol Airport/NL
art forum berlin with Art Affairs, Berlin/DE
Art Brussels with Art Affairs, Brussels/BE
Art Spaces, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Art Spaces, Galeria 44, Barcelona/ES
2002
Cucina Mobile, W139, Amsterdam/NL
2001
Counter-Strike, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Viewing the Viewer, Galeria 44, Barcelona/ES
Cucina Mobile, Plus e.V., Duesseldorf/DE
2000
White Wall Project, Rijksakademie Zeedijk, Amsterdam/NL
Group Shows
2019
Contact Photography Festival, with Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto/CA
Photo L.A., with Kopeikin Gallery Los Angeles/USA
The State of Transparency, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam/NL
We like Art, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam/NL
The X Part 2 (Anniversary) Show, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2018
38CC, Delft, NL
Ode aan de Bijlmer, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam/NL,
Volta New York represented by Kopeikin Gallery, New York/USA
Unseen Art Fair Amsterdam represented by Kopeikin Gallery Amsterdam/NL
International Canakkale Biennial, Canakkale(TR
Labour and Materials, 21C, Bentonville/USA
2017
Power of the Image, Yungang Art Museum, Shanxi Sheng/CN
Art Toronto, with Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto/CA
Big Art, Herengracht, Amsterdam/NL
Power of the Image, Yungang Art Museum, Datong/CN
Rolling Snowball/8, Three Shadows Art Center, Xiamen/CN
Photo Basel, with Kopeikin Gallery, Basel/CH
Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
AIPAD, New York, with Kopeikin Gallery, New York/USA
Art Rotterdam, with Francis Boeske Projects, Rotterdam/NL
2016
Jimei x Arles – Photography Festival, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen/CN
BIG, Capital C & Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
25th Anniversary, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
Art Photo Budapest, with WHITECONCEPTS, Millenaris, Budapest/HU
AIPAD Photography Show, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, New York/USA
140-15, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umea/SE
Connection, Museum The Royal Castle, Warsaw/PL
2015
Unseen Photo Fair, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
The Painters Eye In Photography, Haus der Fotografie, Robert-Gerlich-Museum, Burghausen/DE
AIPAD Photography Show, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, New York/USA
Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City/USA
2014
Miami Project, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, Miami/USA
15 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen/CN
Art Market Budapest, with WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU
Rolling Snowball/5, Chinese European Art Center, Djupivogur/IS
One Minute on Tour, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai/CN
Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York/USA
art MRKT, represented by Kopeikin Gallery LA, San Francisco/USA
AIPAD Photography Show, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, New York/USA
RAW art fair, represented by We like Art, Rotterdam/NL
Art Rotterdam, represented by Art Affairs, Rotterdam/NL
2013
The Miami Project, represented by Kopeikin Gallery, Miami/USA
Starting Something, Beijing Design Week, Beijing/CN
WHITE, group show with Katrin Korfmann, Photography Museum Rotterdam/NL
If Walls Could Speak – ING Collection, Foundation Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam/NL
Troublesome, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego/USA
Conceptual Photography, Art Affairs Gallery Amsterdam/NL
with Kopeikin Gallery, AIPAD, New York/USA
Passing Time, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design Gallery, USA
2012
Who told you so?!, Onomatopee, Eindhoven/NL
From Dusk to Dawn, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
Art Platform LA, represented by Art Affairs, Los Angeles/USA
ANALOG DIGITAL, Irivine Fine Art Center, CA, USA
Reconnaissance – Dutch Collectors’ Eyes & Some of the Places They Look, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London/UK
Passing Time, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS/USA
Passing Time, R.E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN/USA
Passing Time, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan Universit, Middletown, CT/USA
ARCO, with Gallery Kai Hilgemann (DE) and Mar Art (ES), Madrid/ES
2011
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, with Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
PULSE art fair, with 2×2 projects & Art Affairs, Los Angeles/USA
Voorbeeld, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague/NL
ARCO, with Gallery Kai Hilgemann, Madrid/ES
2010
FLOW, Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven/NL
KORFMANN&WOOKEY, CBK, Dordrecht/NL
Private Confessions, Cellow Factory, London/GB
Kosmos Kiosk, Kunstverein Giessen/DE
Sideways, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem/NL
2009
Strahl Dich Aus, Gallery Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld/DE
Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam/NL
viennafair, with Zaum Projects, Vienna/AT
Space Matrix 01, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2008
Start, Zaum Projects, Lisbon/PT
Serial Photography, 2×2 projects, Amsterdam/NL
Sideways, Azad Gallery, Tehran/IR
Art Amsterdam with Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
3xF, Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Rostock/DE
UITBRAAK!, Meneer de wit, Amsterdam/NL
Scope Basel, with 2x2projects, Basel/CH
Art Rotterdam, with Art Affairs, Rotterdam/NL
2007
MYSTERY, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York/USA
Scope Basel, with Art Affairs, Basel/CH
Art Rotterdam, with Art Affairs, Rotterdam/NL
2006
Real spaces, fictitious spaces, Fundación COFF,
Edificio Tabacalera, San Sebastián/ES
Gray.Korfmann.Youngblood, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
3xF, Frauen Museum, Wiesbaden/DE
Quo Vadis, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Vorlaeufige Durchsuchung, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin/DE
3xF, Hauptstadtstudio ARD, Berlin/DE
2005
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery, Atlanta/Greece, USA
Palm Beach Contemporary with Art Affairs, Palm Beach/USA
Marks of Honour, Foam, Amsterdam/NL
Marks of Honour, van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
Art Cologne with Art Affairs, Cologne/DE
Kunst RAI with Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
2004
Zoom op Zuidas, De Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam/NL
Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles/USA
4 Positions, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Werkstatt Junge Akademie, Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin/DE
Uitgelicht 4, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam/NL
art forum berlin, with Art Affairs, Berlin/DE
Art Cologne, with Art Affairs, Cologne/DE
Art in the Hinge, European Patent Office, The Hague/NL
2003
Prix de Rome, GEM Museum voor actuele Kunst, The Hague/NL
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague/NL
ARCO with Galeria 44, Madrid/ES
2002
Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M./DE
Thresholding, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam/NL
Big Torino, International Biennale of Young Art, Torino/IT
Out of the Digital Domain, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine/USA
Esther Kroon Prijs, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam/NL
Faces Chosen, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
Portretten uit de Collectie Van Zoetendaal, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague/NL
ARCO, with Galeria 44, Madrid/ES
Art Cologne, with Art Affairs, Cologne/DE
2001
Plus.Quam.Perfekt, Museum Ludwig, Cologne/DE
Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam/NL
eme3 Dencity, CCCB, Barcelona/ES
Appearing Live, Zu tun in B./project space, Cologne/DE
Art Cologne, with Art Affairs, Cologne/DE
The Body’s Performance, Art Affairs, Amsterdam/NL
ARCO, with Galeria 44, Madrid/ES
She Shows, Bagagehal Loods 6, Amsterdam/NL
2000
Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam/NL
Illusions, Galeria 44, Barcelona/ES
Live Portraits, Projectroom Rijksakademie, Amsterdam/NL
Selected collections
Aegon Art Collection, NL
Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection, DE
AMC Art Collection, NL
Art Affairs Collection, NL
Art Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, NL
Balticgruppen, SE
Bouwfonds Art Collection of Rabo Real Estate Group, NL
Carla & Hugo Brown Collection, NL
Drake Collection, NL
European Patent Office, NL
Fundacion COFF, ES
ING Art Collection, NL
K&L Gates, DE
Kunstcollectie Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, The Hague, NL
M. Heiting, USA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
P & M. Sanders Collection, NL
Robert Bosch Foundation, DE
Sanders Collection, NL
Stiftung Wuerth, DE
Van Zoetendaal Collection, NL
Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES
VU Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam, NL
VU mc Art Collection, NL
Wuerth Foundation, DE
Ymere Art Collection, NL