Katrin Korfmann/NL *1971 plays in many of her works with the relation of space and surfaces. A few years ago she began to intervene with public space using huge monochrome colour fields.
Her walls withdraw the depth of space and reduce it to the two-dimensional structure of the picture plane. She creates unoccupied spaces where the colour can be subjectively interpreted and the plane can function like a projection background. The real surrounding remains unseen, with all knowledge and context disappeared, leaving now a time in a new created space. The artist often documented her works with a camera and so photography has become a new medium for her. Her photographic compositions build a new idealistic space referring both to time and space. Now she invents a neutral space where people could come together whether in utopia or reality.

Katrin Korfmann has often been acknowledged for her work, p.e. receiving the Prix de Rome, the most important award for young art in the Netherlands. Numerous exhibitions have taken her throughout Europe, Asia and the USA with many of her works represented in both private and public collections.

Education

2000/2001	Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam/NL
1996-1999	Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam/NL
1997/1998	Assistant to Ulay (Uwe F. Laysiepen)
1995/1996	University of Fine Arts, Berlin-Weissensee/DE

Awards & Grants & Residencies

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

2010	Count for Nothing, project of the Fourth European Month of Photography Berlin, whiteconcepts @ Gallery Kai Hilgemann, Berlin/DE VOLTA 6 with Zaum Projects, Basel/CH
2009	2x2projects, Amsterdam/NL Art Affairs project room, New York/USA Seesaw, Station Hilversum, subway, commission, NL 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

Selected group exhibitions

2010	KORFMANN&WOOKEY, CBK, Dordrecht/NL Private Confessions, Cellow Factory London/GB Kosmos Kiosk, Kunstverein Giessen/DE Sideways, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem/NL
2009	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, 2x2 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

Commissions in public space

2009	Refriango, Luanda-Lisbon/PT Central Station Hilversum/NL, square
2008	Central Station Hilversum/NL, subway
2006	Sketch for Spaarne Hospital, Hoofddorp, with SKOR/NL Sketch for the station, Apeldoorn/NL Sketch for the new Law Courts Complex, Venice/IT
2005	Sketch for Rijksgebouwendienst, Ministry of Communication, The Hague/NL
2004	Foundation COFF, San Sebastian/ES VUmc University Hospital, Amsterdam/NL
2003	Amsterdam Airport Schiphol/NL

Selected collections 
Aegon Collection, NL
Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection, DE
Artium Collection, ES
Bouwfonds, NL
European Patent Office, NL
Fundacion COFF, ES
ING Bank, NL
K&L Gates, DE
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
Robert Bosch Foundation, DE
Sanders Collection, NL
Stiftung Wuerth, DE
van Zoetendaal Collection, NL
VUmc University Hospital, NL

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