Biography
Katarina Nitsch, visual artist, born in Wisconsin, USA, to a Hungarian mother and a German father. Educated at the Royal University Collage of Fine Arts in Stockholm, Valand School of Fine Arts at Gothenburg University, Sweden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow and Kanazawa School of Art, Japan. 1992–1998: Studies in Art history, History of Literature, Culture Anthropology, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Stockholm University and Uppsala University, Sweden. Travels in Europe, Russia and The States. 1998–2000, painting classes. 2000–2005 Master of Fine Arts, begins to work with video, installations and participatory art. 2009-2010 Starts to travel and work in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and The West Bank. Develops artistic and curatorial collaborations with Patrik Bengtsson. Post graduate course at The Royal University Collage of Fine Arts in Stockholm.
" For the past few years my work has focused on interventions and collaborations at various locations; a city square, a restaurant, museums, one specific street, a military base, art halls, a theatre, a traffic terminal, galleries, an abandoned factory, a living room, a kitchen, a cinema, a cellar; involving people that, for various reasons are connected to these specific places. The very slow, conscious, quick and intuitive process of discussing and negotiating, listening, reading, reflecting, wandering and seeking becomes the work of art itself and the work of art itself takes a variety of forms; videos, staging, text, sound, images and performances. This is not only a way to navigate through systems, stories, visions and tales. It is a way to work and learn, to change perspective and to continue the conversation, new relations, orders, games and structures."
Katarina Nitsch, May 2010
