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Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, but lives and works in Amsterdam since 1995.
  Her work includes photography and installations in public space that reveal a new perspective on social dynamics. Strongly aesthetic, her photographic images present an abstract of human interaction bound by the grid of everyday life. By capturing people in motion, she forms a new perspective on busy urban settings as portraits of contemporary transitions and creates a tension between stillness and movement in public spaces.
  Time is an important determinant in her work, made visible through the presentation of different sequential incidents that have been registered within a given period and location, in one single spatial arrangement. A frequently recurring element in her photographs and installations is the monochromatic ground, which she refers to as ‘space zero’. The space zero is a solid-coloured surface, like a canvas or a backdrop in a photo studio, ready to capture the play that is set to begin. The vertical perspective often used by Korfmann allows her to create images that are free from direct references to architecture, specific locations or cultural backgrounds. In her oeuvre, Korfmann incorporates a critical attitude towards the world around her, explicitly with regards to contemporary visual culture. In her research she investigates a multitude of images, their historical and current manifestations and the resulting social and visual effects. She places her world of experience outside of herself, abstracting it and playing with it to get a different “view” on it. By simultaneously zooming in and out, Korfmann creates a suggestion of distance and proximity at the same time and depicts mysterious realities, which neither the eye, nor the artist’s camera could have grasped. Her images are both: an interpretation of her experience and of collective social memory.
  Katrin studied Photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and continued her research during her residencies at the Rijksakademie, both in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art and public spaces. In addition to a practice as a visual artist, she is a senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
 
 
Commissions by:
 
  e.g. Ministry of Finance, Rijksgebouwendienst, Schiphol Airport, University VU MC, AMC, Rijnstate, Ronald McDonald Centre (Netherlands); Ford (USA); Stockholm County Council (Sweden).
 
 
 
Portfolio Public Art Commissions
 
  Please click here to download a pdf of public art commissions
Newsletter To receive regular updates regarding new work or exhibitions, please subscribe to the newsletter or follow me on Instagram Awards & Grants & Residencies 2014 Chinese European Art Center, Residency, Xiamen, CN 2013 Mondriaan Fund, basic stipend, NL 2012 Rado Star Prize, by Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, CH 2011 Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, development grant, NL 2010 Fonds BKVB, publication grant, NL 2009 Grafisch Atelier, Residency/Grant, Amsterdam, NL 2005 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Residency/Grant, DE [cat.] 2004 Fonds BKVB, basic stipend, NL Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 01, Residency/Grant, NL [cat.] 2003 Prix de Rome (public art, 2nd prize), NL [cat.] Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL 2002 Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL 2001 Robert Bosch Foundation, Grant, DE Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Residency, Biella, IT 2000 Mama Cash Award, NL Würth Foundation, Grant, DE 1999 Esther Kroon Award, NL Education 2000/2001 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1996 - 99 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (Photography) 1997 / 98 Assistant to Ulay (Uwe F. Laysiepen) 1995 / 96 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee Resume Please click here to download the full resume as pdf Her work is represented in various private and corporate collections e.g. in the U.S.: C21, Bill and Christy Gautreaux, Twitter in Germany: Würth Foundation, Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection, European Patent Office, Robert Bosch Foundation in The Netherlands: Drake Collection, AMC Art Collection, Bouwfonds Art Collection of Rabo Real Estate Group, ING Art Collection, Art Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs, VandenBroek Foundation, Plancius Art Collection, Rijnstate art collection, Fotomuseum The Hague, Carla & Hugo Brown Collection, UMC Utrecht in Sweden: Collection City of Umeå, Balticgruppen, Stockholm County Council
Katrin Korfmann mail@katrinkorfmann.com Studio Katrin Korfmann / 1800 Roeden Joris van den Berghweg 103 - B West - 0.14 1067 HP Amsterdam, the Netherlands Correspondence: Chassestraat 92 - 3, 1057 JK Amsterdam, the Netherlands Gallery contact Art Affairs / The Netherlands Amsterdam antoinette@artaffairs.net Kopeikin Gallery / Los Angeles 2766 S. La Cienega Blvd. Culver City, CA. 90034 info@kopeikingallery.com Galeri Andersson/Sandström / Sweden Stockholm galleri@gsa.se Bau - Xi Photo / Canada 350 Dundas St West Toronto, ON M5T 1G5 photo@bau-xi.com All inquiries regarding artwork sales are to be addressed to our galleries listed on this website. Please contact the gallery nearest you. Legal notice All images are protected by copyright law. No part of this website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written prior consent from Katrin Korfmann or Pictoright. For copyright permission please contact Pictoright: info@pictoright.nl Colophon Concept and logo: Roosje Klap Design: Céline Hurka Web-development Kay Pisarowitz