Katja Mater
°1979, Hoorn (NL) – lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and Brussels (BE)
Katja Mater examines the boundaries of photographic and cinematographic media in explorations of the possibilities and impossibilities inherent to their materials. The reflective process that characterizes her work starts with an observation of the exhibition context and a contemplation of the potential dialogue between the medium and the environment. She works toward an ‘outcome’ that carry a transformative potential.
Her work primarily consists of analogue photographic or cinematographic registrations of intermediate interventions. She creates abstract geometric compositions on paper, on objects, or directly onto a spatial context. The compositions are captured by means of a deliberate set of rules that provide a sense of direction in Mater’s boundless exploration of the tension between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional.
(courtesy of KIOSK)
HIC . EST . TUUM . HORA, 2024
Wrist Sun Disc, 2023
Time is an Arrow, Error 43, 2020
Time is an Arrow, Error 15, 2020
Time is an Arrow, Error 2, 2020
Dare NoT, ReAd ON , 2020
Ell to Inch, 2019
TempuS breve est | time ever short, 2023
Katja Mater has exhibited widely at major institutions, such as Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; FOMU, Antwerp; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; and FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam. Mater’s work is included in major public collections, such as FOMU, Antwerp; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and M HKA, Antwerp.
Katja Mater is represented by the following gallery;
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You can also discover more of Mater’s work on her own website.
