Katalin Deér
Two, two-and-a-half, and three dimensions
The sculptor Katalin Deér continues to work consistently once again on the borders between pictorial and sculptural representation of designed structures. Using unusual combinations of photographs, cardboard models, reflections and cement as a sculptural casting material, she creates objects that open up new and unfamiliar spatial dimensions for viewers.
Katalin Deér — Biography
65 Born in Palo Alto, Ca., USA. moved to Switzerland in 1969,
and to Germany in 1970
90-96 Study of visual art, Hochschule der Künste, now UdK, Berlin
96 Master’s student with Lothar Baumgarten
97-02 Lived in Berlin and New York
Since 04 Lives in St.Gallen
Exhibitions and Participation (selection)
1996 Basilica Aemilia
Architektenkammer, Berlin
1997 Exhibition
Kunst und Technik, Berlin
1998 sehen sehen — berlin 1998
loop — raum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin
1998 Architecture! Architecture! Architecture!
Hunter College, MfA Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Seven Year Itch Anniversary Show: Artists from NYC
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1998 Studio prize 1998
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Oberschöneweide, Berlin
1999 Artists for children
Benefit auction for Unicef, Jewish Museum, Berlin
1999 Fellowship holder
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Bahnhof Westend, Berlin
2000 Double Distance
Anthology Film Archives Gallery, New York, NY
2000 small world — Staged Photography
*67, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2001 berlin_london
ICA — Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2001 Modell | Skulptur
NBK — Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2002 Artists Imagine Architecture
ICA — Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2003 diamond paper
Future7 Collection, Berlin
2003 Exhibition
Guest studio, Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen, CH
2005 Edition Dresden, 10 Berliner Artists
Städtische Galerie Dresden
2005 Studio prize recipient, 50 years Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft,
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2006 Räume
Trudelhaus, Baden, CH
2006 Sitterwerk 01
St.Gallen, CH
2007 Sitterwerk 02
St.Gallen, CH
2008 Das endlose Haus
Kunstverein im Katharinen, St.Gallen, CH
2008 Showdown (June 5, 2008)
exex, St.Gallen, CH
2008 Present Things
Pratt Institute, New York, NY, USA
2008 A second showing
IBZ Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2009 PhotoDimensional
MoCP — Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
2009 Neo 09 — Das Klappen von Zeit
art in architecture, Windfang, St.Otmar, St. Gallen, CH
2009 Present Things
Kunstverein Heilbronn, D
2009 Gottes Haus (October 2009-January 2010)
MMKK — Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt
Stipends and Prizes
1997-99 NaFöG — Fellowship, Senat Berlin
1997-99 Studio stipend from the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin
1998 Studio prize of the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin
1999-00 Work stipend from Kunstfonds, e.V.
2000 Fellowship from DAAD for New York
2002 Fellowship from the NYFA, New York Foundation for the
Arts, NY
2007 Work stipend from the City of St.Gallen
Bibliography
2001 Catalogue for NBK Berlin, text by Knut Ebeling
2002 Catalogue for ICA Boston, text by Jessica Morgan
2003 List of artists, www.kunstgiesserei.ch,
text by Christina Bitter
2005 Catalogue for the edition of the Städtischen Galerie,
Dresden, text by Agnes Wegner
2005 Catalogue “Atelierpreisträger”, Haus am Waldsee,
Berlin, text by Katja Blomberg
2008 Collection of cards for Showdown, exex, St. Gallen,
text Corinne Schatz
2009 Artists’ book “Present Things” snoeck, Cologne, text
by Max Wechsler (published July 2009)