To be made up of the Earth is not necessarily easy #5
Lecture by Kathrin Hornek.
Monday, September 1st, 7pm.
In her talk Katrin Hornek guides the audience through some of her works, following stories and traces from the material world into cell walls, deep sea basins, and test tubes. Body rocks will encounter speculative land masses, and concrete formwork will meet algorithmic city sediments.
Katrin Hornek (1983*) lives and works in Vienna. She studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene, that is, the geologic epoch where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth. Both her artistic and her curatorial practice assert an understanding of the entwinement of so-called nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations – most recently, at the Belvedere 21, Vienna (2025), secession, Vienna (2024), ar/ge Kunst, Bolzano (2021), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), the Riga Biennale(2020), Hysterical Mining at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), and I: project space, Beijing (2018). She teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Department of Site-Specific Art) and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group The Anthropocene Commons. Msgr. Otto Mauer Award 2021, Studioprogram, Federal Ministry for Arts (2020-2026), Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst 2017, Theodor Körner Award 2013, Artist Award, Lower Austria 2012.
www.katrinhornek.net