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
Lives and works in Munich since 2002
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2016 "Momentum", Gallery Space Robert Blume, Munich, Germany
2017 "Person und Traum", Kunsttreff Quiddezentrum, Munich, Germany
2017 "Traumfragmente", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2018 "Traumfragmente II", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2019 "Traumfragmente III", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2020 "Traumbilder", werkstatt-galerie, Munich, Germany
2021 "Mythos und Archetyp", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2022 "Solo Exhibition-Katrin Loy", Art Show International Gallery, CA (Online Exhibition)
Group exhibitions (selection)
2015 "Herbsttagung der DPV", Bad Homburg, Germany
2016 "Künstlerinnen treffen Hildegunde", Meerbusch, Germany
2016 "Natur und Mensch", National Park Municipality of St. Andreasburg, Germany
2016 "Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXXIX", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2017 "Bilder, Briefe, Noten XC", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich
2018 "With Kind Regards V", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich
2019 "With Kind Regards VI", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich
2020 "With Kind Regards VII", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich
2020 "Sir John Hurt & Sworders Art Prize", Thurning, UK
2020 "Milano Photo Awards", International Contemporary Exhibition, M.A.D.S. Milano
2021 "Emergence 2", the Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2021 "Women in Art", Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 "The Tokyo Art Exhibition", Contemporary Art Station, Japan
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, UK
2021 Art Fair "Alchemic Body", Itsliquid Group, London, UK
2021 "Sharing / BBK-Mitglieder stellen aus 2021", Galerie der Künstler/innen, Munich
2022 "Contemporary Third Edition", Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge London, UK
2022 "Landscape", the Glasgow Gallery od Photography, UK
2022 "Visual Art Open – Finalists Exhibition", Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop, London, UK
2022 "Experimenta – The other Photography, LoosenArt Gallery, Rom, Italy
2022 "With kind Regards IX", Autoren Galerie 1, München, Germany
2022 "Alles immer Jetzt / BBK-Mitglieder stellen aus 2022", Galerie der Künstler/innen, München,
Germany
2023 "Perspectives", CICA-Museum, Korea
Prizes:
2021 "Collector es Vision International Art Award"
2021 "Power of Creativity Art Prize"
2022 "Visions of Tomorrow Art Prize"
2022 "Faces of the Peace Art Prize"
Publikations and Press (selection)
2016 "Natur und Mensch", National Park Municipality of St. Andreasburg, Exhibition Catalog
2018 "Traumszenen", Süddeutsche Zeitung, Article concerning the Exhibition "Traumfragmente II",
Autoren Galerie 1, Muncih, Germany
2020 "Milano Photo Awards", Exhibition Catalog, M.A.D.S., Milano, Italy
2020 "Aesthetica Magazine"
2020 "Il Fotografo", Roma Fotografia
2020 "BOOMER Gallery Magazine"
2020 "Emergence 2", Exhibition Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2021 "Collector es Vision International Art Award"- Interview, Contemporary Art Curator
Magazine
2021 "The Tokyo Art Exhibition", Exhibition Catalog, Contemporary Art Station, Japan
2021 "Out of the Frame", Exhibition Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2021 "Borders", Art Fair Catalogue, ITSLIQUID GROUP, Venice, Italy
2021 "Photography in the Visual Culture 2021", Serradifalco Editore, Italy
2021 "World wide Art & Artavita Pavilion", Artexpo New York, Art Fair Catalogue, USA
2022 "Photography in the Visual Culture 2022", Serradifalco Editore, Italy
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...
"What if seas could sink into seas?"
The submitted images are part of my new series "Sunken Seas". The series is a work in progress and comprizes 200 images up to now.
The sea as a central metaphor encompasses a pool of possible symbolic associations, fantasies and interpretations such as "the unconscious", "the hidden", "the mysterious", "the incomprehensible", "the origin", "the primordial ground", "the vessel", "the container", "the immersion in oneself and in the world" and many others, which are offered to the viewer in the form of a photographic image series.
What’s your background?
I studied art at the Academy of Visual Arts in Düsseldorf with Professor Jannis Kounellis, whose poetic view of art and culture inspired and touched me especially. He tried to enable his students, "... to tell the emerging new epic not with descriptive details but with poetic power." He understood his artclass as a "central place of deepening", as a "reservoir of insatiable desires... to find the inherent form, to track down the drama again, the soul that gives strength to the breath inherent in every true image" (Quote from the catalogue of the exhibition "Meisterschülerinnen der Klasse Jannis Kounellis", Kunstverein Münsterland 2001).
The starting point of my artistic work was the sculptural work with different materials, from which my photographic work has developed. For some time I also worked with film and video. Even today there are phases in which I work sculpturally, as I enjoy the manual contact with the material very much, but I rarely show these works in exhibitions.
In addition, my artistic work is characterized by many years of intensive occupation with psychoanalysis and the unconscious during my further education at the Acedemie for Psychoanalysis in Munich.
Furthermore, I have been very intensively involved with contemporary dance and dance theatre for several years, which I found very inspiring for my photographic work. Dancing brought sensitization to the body more into the focus of my artistic work.
What does it mean to you to win the Collectors Art Prize?
I am honored to be awarded the Collectors Art Prize. For me, it is a great recognition of my artistic work.
What do you think is the role of art in the world today?
For me, a further development of humanity is inconceivable without a further development of art and culture. I can only answer the question of what is the role of art in the world today individually. In view of an increasing rationalization and conceptualization, which also strongly influences contemporary art, it is important for me to reconnect with body awareness, the intuitive, the unconscious, the atmospheric and the energetic space.
What would it be if you could change one thing about the art world?
Due to the fact that nowadays everything can be declared art, the demand for the quality of artistic work has fallen sharply. This is something I very much regret and would like to be able to change.
What are your most significant professional achievements?
Receiving the "Collectors Vision International Art Award" in 2021 by the Contemporary Art Curator team for me personally was the most significant professional achievement. I found the questions in the interview about this art prize very inspiring and they brought back long-forgotten memories of my childhood.
What do you wish to tell viewers about your work that might not come out explicitly? What do you hope to inspire with your artwork?
My artwork is most likely to open up to the viewer in a state of dreamy reverie, in which cognitive-rational perception is reduced and the activity of the intuitive and unconscious is given space. In this way, I hope to give the viewer a stronger access to his unconscious, which significantly controls and influences the course of our life and experiences.
What advice would you give to the upcoming generation of artists?
I think it is important to give more attention and weight to one's own artistic process and the line of inner development triggered by it than to supposed external successes concerning the art market.
In what direction would you like to see your career go in the next five years?
I hope to continue to participate in interesting exhibitions. In addition, I would like to open up further interesting exhibition opportunities for solo exhibitions.
As far as my artistic work is concerned, I would like to draw on my experiences in sculptural work, dance and body work in order to incorporate these qualities more strongly into my work and to expand my artwork beyond the photographic medium.
Country Germany
Website www.artpal.com/katrinloy/
