Katrin Korfmann Public Art Comissions & selected works Title: Gravitation, 2 Hours Date: 2010 Size: 3 x 26 m & 3 x 13 m 118” x 1024” & 118” x 512” Comissioned by: Ronald McDonald sport Centre Amsterdam. Centre for children and youth with disabilities.
Disabled youngsters were photographed in situations in which their bodies can tem- porarily give up restrictions in relation to gravity. In one image we see the youngsters caught as they jump into the water, while in the other they jump on a large inflata- ble bouncer. In both of these pictures the progression of time is captured in a single encompassing image by stitching different instants of time together.
The freedom which is expressed in the freely propelled bodies temporarily can- cels the difference which separates the disabled youngsters from their able bo- died contemporaries.
Detail: Gravitation
Detail: Gravitation Title: Art at Judicial Complex Date: 2016 Size: Four walls, 1,5 m x 17 m / 59” x 670”, each Material: Glass, photographic print, backlit Comissioned by: Rijksgebouwdienst, Penitentiary Zaanstad, PI2, NL
The Judicial Complex Zaanstad, the Netherlands is completed, the largest and most modern Penitentiary in the Nether- lands. Commissioned by PI2 and super- vised by Rijksvastgoedbedrijf and TAAK, five art projects for the new high tech buil- ding were realized.
Katrin Korfmann created a new series of photographic works for four visitor’s areas. For each artwork she photographed a different square in Amsterdam focus- sing on the cultural diversity of the cities public spaces. De Dam Anton de Komplein
Sierplein Museumplein Detail: De Dam Detail: Anton de Komplein Detail: Museumplein Title: Coffee (33 Minutes) Date: 2011 Size: 70 x 300 x 15 cm 28” x 118” x 6” Material: Enduratrans print / diasec / lightbox Commisioned by: Corporate real estate
Coffee (33 Min) is a transparency in a light box depicting people who are in transit, moving thru a station hall from one point to another. Upon closer inspection, one notices that many of these rushing figures carry a ‘coffee to go’ with them. The photo, a collage of images which have been recor- ded at regular intervals during a span of 33 minutes, attempts to visualize an experience of time in a spatial plane. It illustrates our hurried reality in which coffee is no longer just a shared convivial beverage but an instrumental stimulant that allows people to keep going, now moving alongside each other anonymously with a coffee on the run.
Detail: Coffe Title: Nickel´s Eye, 2d Date: 2009 Size: 200 x 360 cm 79” x 142” Material: Lightjetprint / diasec / lightbox Commisioned by: Refriango (Luanda / Lisbon)
Comissioned by Refriango, soft drink producer in Angola. Artwork for the head office in Lisbon
Detail: Nickel’s Eye Title: Koi, 45 Minutes Date: 2013 Size: 200 x 280 cm 79” x 110” Material: Illuminated ceramic, print on glass
Woonwijze comissioned a work of art on the outer side of their main headquarters Comissioned by: Woonwijze, in Vught. Korfmann’s installa tion consists of a 2 meter by 2,80 meter glass plate, housing cooperation, Vught, which is installed on a window niche about 3 meters high on a generous, postmo dern The Netherlands building. On this vertically positioned pla- te several precious Koi carps can be seen, cavorting on the building façade. The viewer of the work experiences a moment of irrita tion: although he looks up, at the same time he looks down into an ornamental pond. This paradox is even further reinforced by the backlight of the work, which gives the impression that the pond is illuminated from below: by the light, the golden glowing carps move clo- ser to the surface, while the water seems even more profound. The work invites us to reflect on our culture of status symbols and on our relationship to nature.
Title: Horizon Vanished Date: 2011 Size: 150 x 565 cm Material: Photographic print
Horizon Vanished is a work photographed on a square in Amsterdam West which is near Korfmann’s studio. It is a collage of hundreds of photos which were shot over a period of six hours on one afternoon in order to create a literal image of time, as if it were a container for the memory of the space itself.
Detail: HorizonVanished Title: Commemorative Unesco coin De Beemster & Schokland Date: 2018 & 2019 Size: 29 & 33 mm (Silver) 22,5 mm (Gold) Comissioned by: Ministry of Katrin Korfmann designed two special commemorative coins that have been issued by the Royal Dutch Mint Finance and Royal Dutch Mint celebrating Schokland and De Beemster, UNESCO world heritage. In her design Katrin Korfmann emphasizes on the contrast between the free, organic form of the former landscape and the constructed grid of the dutch polder architecture, so called “The Reclaimed Landscape”. She developed positive negative design for two coins: The landscape of the former island of Schokland and the portrait of the king on the front of this coin rise - a reference to the former island, which emerged above the Zuiderzee. The Beemster coin is designed exactly the other way around: The area of the former lake and the portrait of the King invert into the coin. The unity of the two coins is strengthened by the fact that the lines surrounding the king’s portrait on the Schokland coin continue if they were placed exactly on top of the king’s portrait of the Beemster coin. Design Beemster world heritage coin Design Schokland world heritage coin Title: Ensembles Assembled Date: 2014
Installation view exhibition
A project that highlights the visual report between social realism and euphoric utopianism referencing the visual and material facilitation of socially unifying rituals.
Detail: Enembles Assembled Detail: Enembles Assembled Title: Ballet Rehearsal, Amsterdam Date: 2018 from the Series Back Stages
Title: In the Garden Date: 2019 Size: 90 x 600 cm Material: Fine art print on dibond / plexiglass Comissioned by: Rijnstate art collection, hospital Arnhem, NL
On behalf of Rijnstate, artist Katrin Korfmann has created a six-meter wide photo for the department of General Day Care. In the almost panoramic work you see children gardening in a bird’s eye perspective. You look over their shoulders for sharp details. Planting and harvesting, the spring onion is already in the carrier bag. In Korfmann’s photography a whole world can be discovered and at the same time the work offers a calm, balanced image.
Detail: In the Garden For further information please visit: www.katrinkorfmann.com Katrin Korfmann grew up in Berlin, Germany and lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she [email protected] specialised in photography and continued her research with residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Cittadellarte in Biella and the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, China.
Owing to her background in photography, Katrin Korfmann’s work in various media – photo-works, videos and installations – is concerned with concepts of framing, perspective, and the social dimensions of perception, and pushes the boundaries of photography and representation.
An important determinant in her work are observations of specific public places, made visible through the presentation of different sequential incidents that have been registered within a given period and location, in one single spatial arrangement. The issue of responsibility for the existence of an image, the choice of the right moment and the framing that determines an image also play an important role in her work. Korfmann’s work maybe characterized by a formal level of composition, structure and spatiotemporal experience, that is aimed at the registration and inves- tigation of social constructions and behavior in public space.
Since the late 1990s her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art institutions and public spaces. Her work is represented in numerous private and public international collections.
She won several prizes for her work, including Radostar Prize (CH), Prix de Rome (2nd prize) and the Esther Kroon Award (NL) and recei- ved grants from international institutions like Robert Bosch and Würth Foundation, Akademie der Künste Berlin (DE) and Mondriaan Fund (NL).
Additionally to her artistic practice she is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague; advisor for the Dutch Creative Industrie Fund and board Member of the Foundation Continuiteit Beeldrecht.