Kathrin Graf (*1984) explores the relationships between different materials in order to sharpen awareness for the body with all its entanglements and vulnerabilities. Materiality and corporeality are directly connected for Graf, as they make the body experienceable and tangible. Her sculptural and spatial works question the common notion of subjectivity as a self-contained individual and, by experimenting with different combinations of materials, explore how bodies interact in the tension between autonomy and connectedness. Material properties are given as much freedom as possible to develop new surfaces and forms.
Graf uses plaster, wax, silicone, mortar, lime, paste, pigments, shaving foam and artificial snow to create fragile objects that are not interested in any kind of representation, but rather seek the processual, the changeable and transformable. For her the physical, visceral experience of the work is a central aspect.

In collaboration with the painter Bettina Marx she is part of the artist duo tiefkeller. Since 2019 she works together with Mariah Blue (US/NL), Lana Murdochy (GB), Younwon Sohn (KR) and Amy Winstanley (GB).

Education

Collaboration/ Projects

Publication

Exhibitions
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Potluck | Gallery 17717 | Seoul, South Korea (G)

Argelanders Erben - Von der Bonner Durchmusterung bis zur modernen Himmelsforschung | Universitätsmuseum Bonn (G)

-1 | tiefkeller | with works from the Moulage Collection by the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charite and by Wytske Averink, Louisa Clement, Sabrina Fritsch, Lukas Schmenger und Paloma Varga Weisz | Bonn | in collaboration with Bettina Marx (S)

Science + fiction. Über das Verhältnis von Vorstellung und Wirklichkeit | Städtische Galerie am Abdinghof | Padernborn | together with Alexandra Knie (S)

Solo (S), Group (G)