Katrin Korfmann

Some recent solo exhibitions
Goethe Institute, Hong Kong 2010, 'Count for Nothing'
Art Affairs, New York 2009, 'Count for Nothing'
Museu Municipal Joan Abelló, Mollet des Vallès 2005, 'I did not propose an answer yet'
Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles 2004

Some recent group exhibitions
Museum voor moderne kunst Arnhem, 2010, 'Sideways'
Art Affairs, Amsterdam 2006, 'Quo vadis?'
FOAM, Amsterdam 2005, 'Marks of Honour. A striking library'
GEM, Museum voor actuele kunst, The Hague 2003, 'Prix de Rome 2003: Beeldhouwen, Kunst & Publieke Ruimte'

Selected publications
Katrin Korfmann: dl81 b-767-300er, Berlin: Akademie der Künste 2006
James Scarborough, Katrin Korfmann: selected works 1999-2004, Amsterdam: Art Affairs 2004

Selected public and corporate collections
European Patent Office, NL • Van Zoetendaal Collection, NL • VU Ziekenhuis, NL • ING Kunstcollectie, NL • Kunstcollectie Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, NL • Stiftung Wuerth, Künzelsau-Gaisbach, DE • Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart, DE • ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES

Katrin Korfmann is concerned with people. She studies everyday life and is interested in the perception of senses. Her videos are slices of life. They enhance the doubt about precise meaning: are they a comment on society, on human nature or just registrations? In her photo works, Korfmann creates a significant tension between stillness and movement; her photographic images show affinity with performance, with events happening in time. In one project, she made portraits of people, asking them not to move for two minutes, being the exposure time of the camera. The resulting portraits are vibrant with life and one can almost read the thoughts of the models. Other photographic projects deal with people that are clearly and mysteriously visible, most of the time in the turmoil of public spaces: railway stations, ice-hockey stadiums, or city squares. Korfmann shows how people make use of public space. She is 'timing' the integration of time in the photographic image.

Katrin Korfmann was resident artist at the Rijksakademie in 2000-2001.
She won the 2nd prize at the 2003 Prix de Rome (NL).

www.katrinkorfmann.com