contact ……………………….
ks@35slash8.info

biography ……………………

katja struif
conceptual artist
born 1966

studies
1989 – 1991 cultural science, university bremen, germany
1992 – 1996 mixed media, akademie voor kunst en industrie, enschede – netherlands

recent exhibitions
2023  phönix, enzymkultur, 16th – 24th september, essen
2023  grenzen der aufklärung, oberwelt e. v., 15th – 30th september, stuttgart
2023  35/8, oberwelt e. v., 12th may – 10th june, stuttgart
2023  wasser, bunker k101, 28th april, cologne
2021  kreisch – festival für straßenkünste, november, essen
2021  video selection, magnolia collective, 10th october, kortrijkt, belgium
2021  video-fenster, videos made in lockdown, 22nd – 27th june, cologne
2021  9th international video poetry festival athens
2021  tandem human coral, kulturbunker ehrenfeld, cologne
2020  fossile sucht, gg3, berlin
2019  hysterienspiel, scenic play, klavierwerkstatt zaehringer, cologne
2019  social art award, online competition, berlin
2019  patterns of power, oberwelt e.v., stuttgart
2019  tod und verderben, bunkerhill galerie, hamburg
2018  monitorartfilm, public space, schwerte

recent videos
2023  soft ice, 6min 27sec
2022  the proper production of property, 3min28sec
2021  the vertical tristesse of parasites‘ paradise, 3min 19sec
2020  a miserable attempt toward the horizontal, 5min 55sec
2020  hysterienspiel, documentary, 18min 24sec
2019  make fake place, 7min 22sec
2018  ratten fangen, project documentary, 50min
2016  godzilla tanzt gnossienne, spooky project documentary, 30min

projects in public space
2023  cadavre exquis, fête comme chez vous, st geoire en valdaine
2018  ratten fangen, cologne
in collaboration with brigit kofmel, heike pohlmann, vanda perez-bessone, naüm
2017  music utility vehicle, cologne
2016  spooky, cologne
in collaboration with egon zaehringer, kwaggawerk, naüm
2013  takukirmes, cologne
in collaboration with heike pohlmann and sylke scholz
participating artists, musicians and dancers: cornelius schöler, egon zaehringer, jan hammer,
karl-heinz mauermann, max pothmann, monica pantel, nicole rodrian, ruth scheuer, triloff
2008  scrivere grande, rome
2001  wenceslas square, praha

publications
2019  social art award 2019, berlin, book
2017  trump-mail-art, clementine klein, booklet
2008  scrivere grande, goethe-institut rome, cataloque
2006  wirtschaft in 3d, hessian ministry for science and arts, cataloque
2005  ricardos suppe, institut für neue technische form, cataloque
2004  buy sellf, ateliers d’artistes, marseille, cataloque
2003  kommunale galerie der stadt darmstadt, cataloque
2002  ontplooid, rijksmuseum twente, cataloque
2002  oberwelt, eine gebrauchsanweisung, stuttgart, cataloque
2000  C.1855, le feuilleton # 9, paris, mensuel dʼart
1997  punkt 1, multiple’s magazine, paris-darmstadt, bureau a quatre mains

lectures
2011  pasquinaden-projekt – university of innsbruck
2009  sprechende statuen – istituto italiano, cologne
2005  homo oeconomicus – vienna university of economic sciences

residencies
2008  rome, goethe institute
2002  stuttgart, oberwelt e. v.
2001  praha, hessian ministry for science and arts