Katrin Loy — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Katrin Loy

Biography

1969 born in Göppingen
1991 - 2001 Study of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, Master Student at Prof. Jannis Kounellis
2005 - 2007 Postgraduate studies for Visual Arts and Therapy at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Munich
2008 - 2018 Continuing education at the Academy of Psychoanalysis in Munich
lives and works in Munich since 2002

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2017 "Person und Traum", Kunsttreff Quiddezentrum, Munich
2017 "Traumfragmente", Autorengalerie 1, Munich
2018 "Traumfragmente II", Autorengalerie 1, Munich
2019 "Traumfragmente III", Autorengalerie 1, Munich
2020 "Traumbilder", werkstatt-galerie, Munich

2021 "Dream images", Fusion Art Gallery, Palm Springs, CA

2021 "Myth and Archetype", Autorengalerie 1, Munich

Group exhibitions (selection)

2020 "Sir John Hurt & Sworders Art Prize", Thurning, UK

2020 "Paris Photo Prize - State of the World"

2020 "Milano Photo Awards", M.A.D.S. Milano

2021 "Infinite Dreams", Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2021 "Emergence 2", the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, USA

2021 "Women in Art", Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2021 "VRAF 2021 / Virtual Art Fair", Contemporary Art Station, UK

2021 "VAA Online Spring Expo", Visual Artists Association, UK

2021 "The Tokyo Art Exhibition", Contemporary Art Station, Japan

2021 "River of Dreams", Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

2021 "Borders Art Fair", "Fragmented Identities", ITSLIQUID GROUP, Venice, Italy

2021 "Contemporary", Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge London, UK

2021 "Lisbon International Contemporary Exhibition", Atelier Natália Gromicho, Lisboa

2021 "Out of the Frame", The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, USA

Description of artistic work

In my artistic work, the essence and soul of man is at the centre, his struggle for a vision, his utopias and abysses, his confrontation with the self and the encounter with the other. It arises both from spontaneously emerging inner images as well as from ideas about the psychic and intuitive functions of man and about his archaic experiences.

It also feeds on a state of mind and emotions, in which consciousness walks on the small degree between the conscious and the subconscious, revealing something like an inner myth that leaves its mark in the form of artistic work. This process takes place in the hope that these traces, which have become visible in this way, will also touch or even infect the other, ideally a form of infection that allows the viewer to immerse himself in his own inner myth.

I work photographically with the overlay of images and/or digital image editing. Both the superimposition and the digital alienation of the images play a decisive role in my photographic work, since I am not concerned with the depiction of the found reality, but with the new imagery created by associative overlay or alienation of the original photographic image.

One might ask: Does the form in which we perceive the world sensually, thinking, feeling and intuitively grasp a composition of a perception of reality and associative-projective imagination actually correspond? And what exactly corresponds to reality and what corresponds to imagination? And what exactly is reality and what is fantasy? Ultimately, everything is a matter of consciousness... therefore, it is probably both and neither of them, and at the same time it is neither both nor neither of them... a PARADOX...

life is just a dream of a higher AWAKENING...

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