Movements, reactions, light and shadow... Are humans just like moths, attracted to “the” light? An interactive-performative installation that sheds light on the game of life. Climate change and energy crisis as a mirror of the human's attraction to the toxic. An activation, a mobile – an echo, a statement? Or is it a mobile in the space in between? A structure in the twilight? An allusion to the golden, unifying aspects of humanity? The quality of stepping out of the dark again and again? — Perhaps.
mixed materials, 3D printing (PLA, PVA, acrylic, neon LED flex, wire)
size variable; site-specific
"I am a part of you, you are a part of me. We are all one, a whole, without duality. Act and live according to this approach - feel,... and the world would be a better place." - Katharina Theresa Mayr
Katharina Theresa Mayr creates a kind of abstract ideology in the Art Box of the Klocker Museum. A scenario that oscillates between utopia and heterotopia. Tabula Rasa on a grand scale: a neutral, emptied ideological space, after crossing the predefined threshold(s) of our society. But what do we in turn find in this emptied, neutral space? In principle, there is always a fear of emptiness, of the undefined, of actual freedom, of detachment. But wouldn't this be exactly the solution to our social problems and points of friction?
commissioned artwork: Innsbrucker Promenadenkonzerte
Depicting, constructing and representing music as an idea of sound through abstract forms and lines. Art and graphic design find their way and come together to create a whole. A coherent, harmonious concept through this artwork emerges.
collection Stiftung/Fondazione Südtiroler Sparkasse (IT)
The sketchbook is a symbol of the most hidden, inner part of an artist, it is a continuous trace throughout their arctic practice. Always on hand, never-ending, an ongoing process. But what do we see here? A drawing? A series? It is this play between fullness and emptiness that creates a specific narrative. The drawing's transformation from 2D into 3D causes a shift in perception and thus in the expression of the work itself. The drawing becomes an installation, shedding light on the artistic process as the main statement of the work.
commissioned artwork & graphic design: Verein Alchemilla
published by Verein Alchemilla
Very green, very artistic – Alchemilla Pocket Diary 2023.
mixed materials
A work dealing with space, body measurements, the meaning of freedom and moving freely. In times of restriction due to the Coronavirus, the words “moving and walking freely” received a different weight in meaning and significance. How big is one step of your own size? This letter includes all these topics, sharing them with the artist Richard Long in a personal letter, successfully posted in Bolzano on the 6th of April 2020, Bolzano post office, relating to one of his works seen at the Kunsthalle Bern 1969 (exhibition „When Attitudes become Form“).
length 162 cm / waist width 25.8 cm
Grabbing & Rooting is a crafted artwork of a snowboard, talking about reaching out towards your goals, only the sky is the limit. It is a statement of allowing yourself to be uplifted, to grow but always staying rooted, connected to your base, touching solid ground. It’s a play between stability and sitting on a swing, flying high and grabbing the fruits of your effort, courage, and devotion towards the things you truly value and love.
Collaboration with Baguette Boards; custom-made for free rider Paul Zimmermann
size variable; site-specific (drawing 150 x 1000 cm; audio: 2.25 min loop)
artist residency and exhibition "FRAUENfeste – fortezzaDONNA – furtëzaËIles" at Festung Franzensfeste/Fortezza South Tyrol
material study
mixed materials
An illustrated skateboard deck showing hand drawings of vintage objects and holiday feelings all at the same time. A fun mix of daily objects seen through the eyes of a person traveling through time and space. A project realised by un.art.clothing in collaboration with XDouble Skate- & Snowboard Shop Innsbruck.
mixed materials
The artwork transformed into a melting pot of disciplines and methods. A combination of media (printed photos, audio) and material (used silo film, hay) created the frame of interaction. A piece, working with smells and the visual experience of discovering a material without preferences, leading afterwards to an open talk, discussing the cultural, economical and social value of hay-making and dealing with the question of the shift in tradition and traditions as cultural heritage, touching fields like eco-design/art, performance art, economics and many more.
Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy
During the lockdown in Italy, the artist found it more and more difficult to relate to herself as a human being and therefore any other social topics. She felt a certain dissolution of the outer shell, and her surroundings began to shape her, representing her. It all became a blurry experience – the human interlayering with a structure of fabric, a piece of furniture, the sofa.
A sketchbook-drawing as a draft, concluding into a large scale drawing of 10 metres by 1,5 metres (graphite on paper), dealing with the female body entwined in the male – constructing and deconstructing.
Large scale drawing dealing with the female body entwined in the male – constructing and deconstructing.
mixed materials
The audio-installation with performative character is self-explanatory and has a set duration which clearly marks its beginning and ending. After its activation, the space in its visible shape can be experienced. Through this the possibility of encountering an abstract invisible space will be opened up to the audience for the finite duration of thirty minutes. It is a social space, reaching beyond the structures of walls and concrete.
mixed materials
This performance is dedicated to repetition and what happens during the process to the body itself. An action will be repeated, a caring action turns into something brutal, an act of silent violence and trembling bodies.
mixed materials
This work is a statement on the forced way of living during the COVID-19 Pandemic, delivered through the micro universe of the laundrette — stories are told and privacy shared. Meet me at the Laundrette is rooted in a performative process, finding its ending within a non-event, a non-exhibition in a non-space during non-social times.
paperback publication; 125 x 190 mm, 300 pages
mixed materials
The piece deals with a specific type of storytelling, diluting the borders between the human and the non-human, the fake and the real world, creating its own reality.
A shelter built by secondhand umbrellas and zip ties reminds the observer of a semicircle, looking like an orb of safety continuing a line of kindness, of second chances, which begun as a gift in the streets of Bolzano amidst the pouring rain. The piece took part in the raid caterpillar project exhibition in l’Aquila, Italy, September 2019.