Vernon Projekt – Katja Loher – Why did the bees leave?
18. 4. 2011, Prague
Katja Loher (Switzerland)
Swiss video artist Katja Loher, who is based in New York, may be regarded as a rising - but already known and discovered - star in the international field of video art. In her art technology and nature go hand in hand. Her characteristic visions involve performance art and three-dimensional forms of sculpture. You rarely see her videos projected on a flat screen. They live in their own worlds - hidden in the round design sculptures or spread onto the surface of fragile inflatable balloons. The magic symbol of the circle comes back again and again in her work. Her playful installations and objects and her diverse worlds are so alive that they have the power to draw the viewer into them.
Katja Loher (1979) graduated from the Art Academy in Basel in 2004 (Diploma Dept. of Art and Media Art) and then immediately moved to New York, where she lives and works today. She has participated in artist-in-residence programmes in Berlin and in Beijing. She has been showing her work officially since 2005, and the list of her solo or group exhibitions is surprisingly long and diverse. Loher has exhibited in Europe (e.g. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic), Asia (China) and the USA. She regularly takes part in art fairs such as Diva Digital & Video Art Fair- New York, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, and VOLTA BASEL. You may have encountered her work at a number of outstanding festivals of contemporary art, such as La Biennale di Venezia - 12th International Architecture Exhibition in 2010, or the TINA B. Festival for Contemporary Art in Prague in 2009 and 2010. The artist was been awarded many prizes. Most recently in 2010 she won the Art Credit Award in Basel.
Loher’s artworks can be found, for example, in the eN Arts Collection in Tokyo, Japan, in GC. AC - Galleria Comunale d‘Arte Contemporanea of Monfalcone in Italy, in the Sara Lahat Private Collection in Herzliya in Israel, in
The Horsecross Collection/Permanent Collection of Digital Art in Perth, UK, and in the collections of private collectors in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Israel and the USA.
www.katjaloher.com
Why did the bees leave?
A dark blue foil covers the windows of the space. Cut-out portals (round holes) open up a view into a mysterious microcosmos.
Elena Rossi Giulia, Independent Curator, Rome about Katja Loher:
“A skilful film editor and an artist who embarks on in-depth experiments with materials, shapes and colors, she collaborates with professionals from different backgrounds to create „planets“ or imaginary universes which mentally and emotionally embrace the audience… Questions or simple dialogues occasionally alternate with the representation of „micro-societies“, such as the one of men working like bees depicted in one of her scenes, whose existence is reflected in the mechanical tasks that assure their survival.“
CONTACT
Markéta Faustová / PR
+420 773 915 501, marketafaustova@seznam.cz
Katja Loher (Switzerland)
Swiss video artist Katja Loher, who is based in New York, may be regarded as a rising - but already known and discovered - star in the international field of video art. In her art technology and nature go hand in hand. Her characteristic visions involve performance art and three-dimensional forms of sculpture. You rarely see her videos projected on a flat screen. They live in their own worlds - hidden in the round design sculptures or spread onto the surface of fragile inflatable balloons. The magic symbol of the circle comes back again and again in her work. Her playful installations and objects and her diverse worlds are so alive that they have the power to draw the viewer into them.
Katja Loher (1979) graduated from the Art Academy in Basel in 2004 (Diploma Dept. of Art and Media Art) and then immediately moved to New York, where she lives and works today. She has participated in artist-in-residence programmes in Berlin and in Beijing. She has been showing her work officially since 2005, and the list of her solo or group exhibitions is surprisingly long and diverse. Loher has exhibited in Europe (e.g. Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Ireland, the Czech Republic), Asia (China) and the USA. She regularly takes part in art fairs such as Diva Digital & Video Art Fair- New York, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, and VOLTA BASEL. You may have encountered her work at a number of outstanding festivals of contemporary art, such as La Biennale di Venezia - 12th International Architecture Exhibition in 2010, or the TINA B. Festival for Contemporary Art in Prague in 2009 and 2010. The artist was been awarded many prizes. Most recently in 2010 she won the Art Credit Award in Basel.
Loher’s artworks can be found, for example, in the eN Arts Collection in Tokyo, Japan, in GC. AC - Galleria Comunale d‘Arte Contemporanea of Monfalcone in Italy, in the Sara Lahat Private Collection in Herzliya in Israel, in
The Horsecross Collection/Permanent Collection of Digital Art in Perth, UK, and in the collections of private collectors in Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Russia, Israel and the USA.
www.katjaloher.com
Why did the bees leave?
A dark blue foil covers the windows of the space. Cut-out portals (round holes) open up a view into a mysterious microcosmos.
Elena Rossi Giulia, Independent Curator, Rome about Katja Loher:
“A skilful film editor and an artist who embarks on in-depth experiments with materials, shapes and colors, she collaborates with professionals from different backgrounds to create „planets“ or imaginary universes which mentally and emotionally embrace the audience… Questions or simple dialogues occasionally alternate with the representation of „micro-societies“, such as the one of men working like bees depicted in one of her scenes, whose existence is reflected in the mechanical tasks that assure their survival.“
CONTACT
Markéta Faustová / PR
+420 773 915 501, marketafaustova@seznam.cz
