Past Resident
2017: KdFS Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
Katharina Schilling
Katharina Schilling’s practice focuses on painting and the objecthood within the medium. Schilling explores the perception of objects by detaching them from their original order systems and shifting them into a new context. The figuration and the puzzling cohesion form a display, which at the same time overcomes and preserves itself. In this process, the realism of the objects is transformed into a state of abstraction.
Katharina Schilling (born 1984, Cologne) received an MA from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a grant from DAAD’s London branch, the Prize of the German Federal Bank Frankfurt and the Marion Ermer Prize, awarded by Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig. Schilling’s work has been presented in art spaces throughout Europe including Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Bologna, Vienna and London.
Events & Exhibitions
Fall Open Studios 2017
November 10–November 11, 2017
Katharina Schilling, Star Fruit, 2017, oil on canvas, 12 × 16 in. (30.48 × 40.64 cm).
Katharina Schilling, Jimmy, 2016, oil on canvas, 26 × 22 in. (66.04 × 55.88 cm).
Katharina Schilling, Pool, 2016, pigment on canvas, 79 × 114 in. (200.66 × 289.56 cm).
Katharina Schilling, The Tide Pool, installation view, 2016, oil on canvas and wood, foam, and lacquer.
Katharina Schilling, Hello, Stranger, 2017, pigment and oil on canvas, 47 × 63 in. (119.38 × 160.02 cm).
