KATJA SCHENKER
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KATJA SCHENKER
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Katja Schenker (*St. Gallen, 1968) lives and works in Zurich. Her artistic works focus on the areas of live performance, drawing, sculpture and installations in internal and external spaces, highlighting the use of natural materials in most cases. The sensuality of these materials play an important role, as do their context, as well as their spatial and temporal dimensions, such as mass, permeability or perishability. Schenker’s artworks aim to thereby heighten the experience and perception of one’s own corporeality in relation to the bodies of the audience and that of the artist. In her processes, concepts such as skin, openness and hold play an important role.
"My work as an artist has always been plastic and performative at the same time. The formation of my sculptures is an essential, highly visible and often scenic or staged part of the artistic experience. Thus, processes are condensed, time is changed into substance, and events are changed into sculptural forms. This was also my general approach to this art-in-architecture project."
"My work as an artist has always been plastic and performative at the same time. The formation of my sculptures is an essential, highly visible and often scenic or staged part of the artistic experience. Thus, processes are condensed, time is changed into substance, and events are changed into sculptural forms. This was also my general approach to this art-in-architecture project."
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Schenker, Katja, “KATJA SCHENKER,” Index of Contemporary Artists, accessed May 17, 2024, https://craigleonard.omeka.net/items/show/703.