Katrin Korfmann's work is on the cutting edge of photography, film and installation. In her work, she creates a tension between stillness and movement, and partly because of that her work shows a strong affinity with performance. Korfmann is attracted to the spectacles of everyday life that usually take place in the public space. By capturing people in motion, she forms a new perspective on busy urban settings as portraits of contemporary transitions.
In her oeuvre, Korfmann incorporates a critical attitude towards the world around her, explicitly with regards to contemporary visual culture. She investigates a multitude of images, their historical and current manifestations and the resulting social and visual effects. She places her world of experience outside of herself, abstracting it and playing with it to get a better "view" of it. Her photographs are both an image of reality and of collective social memory.
A frequently recurring element in her photographs and installations is the monochromatic backdrop, which she refers to as ‘space zero’. The space zero is a solid-coloured surface, like a canvas or a backdrop in a photography studio, ready to capture the play that is set to begin. The bird's-eye view often used by Korfmann allows her to create images that are free from direct references to architecture, specific locations or cultural backgrounds.
In her oeuvre, Korfmann incorporates a critical attitude towards the world around her, explicitly with regards to contemporary visual culture. She investigates a multitude of images, their historical and current manifestations and the resulting social and visual effects. She places her world of experience outside of herself, abstracting it and playing with it to get a better "view" of it. Her photographs are both an image of reality and of collective social memory.
A frequently recurring element in her photographs and installations is the monochromatic backdrop, which she refers to as ‘space zero’. The space zero is a solid-coloured surface, like a canvas or a backdrop in a photography studio, ready to capture the play that is set to begin. The bird's-eye view often used by Korfmann allows her to create images that are free from direct references to architecture, specific locations or cultural backgrounds.
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Katrin Korfmann, Anton de Komplein, 2018
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Kijk naar een foto van Katrin Korfmann en je zult moeite hebben je blik ervan los te maken. De in Berlijn geboren en in Amsterdam wonende kunstenaar maakt grote foto’s van werkplaatsen, ateliers en de publieke ruimte. Ze neemt die van grote hoogte,met een enorm statief of vanaf een hoogwerker of gebouw.Daardoor gebeurt er iets fascinerends: de wereld oogt vertrouwd, maar tegelijk ook niet.Er is iets abstracts ingeslopen. En het is die abstractie die zich als eerste aan de kijker openbaart. De 11de-eeuwse textielververij in Marokko, die Korfmann in 2018 fotografeerde, is aller eerst een spel van kleuren, vormen en lijnen.
Jeroen Bos
Hovering above the shop floor
Hovering above the shop floor
Initially, the Back Stages project tempts me to think about labour. This line of thought isn't odd or implausible. Back Stages shows twelve photo-compositions of shop floors all over the world. A small glass factory in the Chinese province of Fujian. A marble workshop in Carrara. A dance studio of the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. A bronze foundry in the Dutch province of Brabant. A tannery in Morocco. Just to name a few.
These are all places of labour. Predominantly heavy labour. Often unhealthy, sometimes dangerous and, outside Europe, certain to be terribly underpaid as well. Such unionistic tendencies are not the first thing to surface though, looking at the compositions. Presenting itself instead is a pleasant, warm sentiment. An invitation to participate in an exchange about labour. Followed by questions about good, desirable labour. Eventually leading to questions about craft and artistic labour.
http://www.katrinkorfmann.com/bruyne
Paul de Bruyne, art critic
Behind the Scenes
Thus began three years of travel that took them around the world: a marble production company in Carrara, Italy; a ballet rehearsal in Amsterdam; an 11th-century tannery in Morocco; a glass factory Anxi, China. At each location, they mounted a camera on a 20-foot-high tripod and, over the course of several hours, took hundreds of photos of the workspace—a process Korfmann likens to “scanning” the location with her camera.
Back in the studio, Korfmann and Pfeifer then digitally stitched together the photos to create a single, bird’s-eye view of the various fabrication processes, a technique that took her and her assistants anywhere from a week to a month. Rather than capturing an exact facsimile of the space, the process allowed the photographer to combine all the various facets of artistic production—time-lapse photography collapsed into a single image.
Michael Hardy
Homo Ludens
In Katrin Korfmann’s work people are never alone in the world. Her photos are usually full of people. You can’t really call them groups as there is a lot of space between them. The individuals on her photos don’t really belong together, and if they do then they’re in small groups, in twos or threes, just like when you see people walking or crossing a square. Katrin Korfmann is often on the road, especially as she participates in international exhibitions, and from her work you can see that she is endlessly fascinated by open and public spaces with people continually crossing, gathering or passing by. Train stations, airports, streets, and squares form the background for her people.
She takes photos from above, and sometimes she hangs in a crane above the people she wants to portray. You see people from above, first the head and then a shortened version of the body that through the chosen vantage point is hardly visible. So there is no horizon, she views passers-by just like birds would observe them from the air. This time she was also hanging above her subject.
But never before had she chosen such a playful and lively one. We see children running and a ball floating. This photo (or in this case piezographic print) has been specially made for the AMC. Katrin Korfmann has the honour this year of creating a work which will be an artistic response to the human form, an assignment which is annually given to a Dutch artist around The Anatomy Lesson. And, judging by the works she has posted in the past years on her website, she has taken a giant step with this assignment.
Tineke Reijnders
Katrin Korfmann’s bird’s-eye views
At first, Korfmann’s bird’s-eye views of workshops, studios and foundries draw you in because they’re beautiful: packed with crisply depicted details that bring faraway places so close you can touch them — in your mind’s eye. It’s a pretty trippy adventure to make your way through the nooks and crannies of her tautly composed pictures.
In each, Korfmann strikes just the right balance between familiar objects and unknown settings. She makes you work to figure out what you’re looking at. And she makes the whole process pleasurable — like traveling to a foreign land and discovering all sorts of wonderful stuff. It feels intimate, as if you are making real connections to a world that’s new to you.
David Pagel
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Katrin Korfmann [DE, 1971] lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She studied at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, where she specialised in photography and continued her research with residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Cittadellarte in Biella and the Chinese European Art Centre in Xiamen, China. Since the late 1990s her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, alternative art institutions and public spaces. Her work is represented in numerous private and public international collections. She won several prizes for her work, including Radostar Prize (CH), Prix de Rome (2nd prize) and the Esther Kroon Award (NL). In addition to a practice as a visual artist, she is a senior lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Her work is represented in various international private and corporate collections e.g.
in the U.S.: C21, Bill and Christy Gautreaux, Twitter
in Germany: Würth Foundation, Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection, European Patent Office, Robert Bosch Foundation,
in The Netherlands: Drake Collection, AMC Art Collection, Bouwfonds Art Collection of Rabo Real Estate Group, ING Art Collection, Art Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs, VandenBroek Foundation, Plancius Art Collection, Rijnstate art collection, Fotomuseum The Hague, Carla & Hugo Brown Collection, UMC Utrecht, AkzoNobel Art Foundation
in Sweden: Collection City of Umeå, Balticgruppen, Stockholm County Council
Her work is represented in various international private and corporate collections e.g.
in the U.S.: C21, Bill and Christy Gautreaux, Twitter
in Germany: Würth Foundation, Alison & Peter W. Klein Collection, European Patent Office, Robert Bosch Foundation,
in The Netherlands: Drake Collection, AMC Art Collection, Bouwfonds Art Collection of Rabo Real Estate Group, ING Art Collection, Art Collection Ministry of Foreign Affairs, VandenBroek Foundation, Plancius Art Collection, Rijnstate art collection, Fotomuseum The Hague, Carla & Hugo Brown Collection, UMC Utrecht, AkzoNobel Art Foundation
in Sweden: Collection City of Umeå, Balticgruppen, Stockholm County Council
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* 1971 in Heidelberg, Germany
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AWARDS & GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2014 Chinese European Art Center, Residency, Xiamen, CN
2013 Mondriaan Fund, basic stipend, NL
2012 Rado Star Prize, by Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, CH
2011 Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, development grant, NL
2010 Fonds BKVB, publication grant, NL
2009 Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Residency/Grant, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Residency/Grant, DE [cat.]
2004 Fonds BKVB, basic stipend, NL
Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 01, Residency/Grant, NL [cat.]
2003 Prix de Rome (public art, 2nd prize), NL [cat.]
Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL
2002 Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL
2001 Robert Bosch Foundation, Grant, DE
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Residency, Biella, IT
2000 Mama Cash Award, NL
Würth Foundation, Grant, DE
1999 Esther Kroon Award, NL
EDUCATION
2000 / 2001 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1996 - 99 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (Photography)
1997 / 98 Assistant to Ulay (Uwe F. Laysiepen)
1995 / 96 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
EXHIBITIONS
2019 SOLO Back Stages, Contact Photography Festival Toronto at Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto, CA
Back Stages, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL
GROUP The State of Transparency, Loiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
artists include: Maria Barnas, Gwenneth Boelens, Ruta Butkute, Forensic
Architecture, David Jablonowski and others
Whiteconcepts, Berlin, The X show, Berlin, DE, artists include: Thorsten
Goldberg, Wanda Stang, Veronika Witte and others
Pick Me, DE GROEN, Arnhem, NL artists include: Scarlett Hooft
Graafland, Gijs Assmann, Maria Roosen and others
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
2018 SOLO Back Stages, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
Back Stages, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
GROUP Back Stages, Troy Museum, International Canakkale Biennial, TU, artists
include: Adrian Paci, Akın Aksu, Cem Demir, Hertog Nadler, Çınar Eslek,
Guy Ben Ner, Hülya Özdemir, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind and others
Back Stages, 38CC, Delft, NL, artists include: Peter Jordaan,
Adrian Paci, Jens Pfeifer
Ode aan de Bijlmer, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, NL,
artists include: Hans van Houwelingen, Kaleb de Groot,
Lard Buurman and others
Back Stages, Labour and Materials, 21C, Bentonville, US,
artist include: Alejandro Cartagena, Pieter Hugo, Katrin Korfmann,
Zanele Muholi, Kara Walker and others
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
First Decade, 38 CC, Delft, NL; artist include: Gerco de Ruijter, Marjan
Teeuwen, Esther Tielemans, Hans Wilschut, Remy Jungerman and others
2017 SOLO Ensembles assembled, Kennedy van der Laan, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Yungang Art Museum, Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, CN
Athens Photo Book Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GRC
Three Shadows Art Centre, Xiamen, CN, artists include Aernout Mik,
Fahrettin Orenli, Fiona Tan, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Yang Jian,
Yang Zhifei and others
Lumen Travo Gallery, Mighty Process; artists include Jens Pfeifer,
Berend Strik, Milena Naef and Ni Haifeng
Art Affairs, Summer Show, Amsterdam, NL
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
2016 SOLO Berlinartprojects, 665 km, Berlin, DE
GROUP Connection, Museum Lazienki Krolewski, Warschau,
curated by Krystof Pastor in collaboration with VBCN
140-15, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umea, Sweden
Anniversary show, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
BIG Art, Capital C, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag;
amongst others works by: Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Krijn de Koning,
Kristján Gudmundsson, Katrin Korfmann, Joep van Liefland
Jimei x Arles, curated by Sam Stourdze and Rong Rong, Xiamen, CN
2015 SOLO Ensembles Assembled, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Hui’an, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam , NL
GROUP Inside the White Cube, Arena 1 gallery, Los Angeles, US
Curated by Carl Berg and David DiMichele. Artists include Michael Arata,
Micol Hebron, Katrin Korfmann, Kirk Miller, Maryrose Mendoza.
Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporay Art, Kansas, US
Artists include Nick Cave, Kara Walker,Katrin Korfmann, Vik Muniz, Toyin
Odutola, Angel Otero,Ebony G. Patterson, Mickalene Thomas, and more
The Painters Eye In Photography, Haus der Fotografie, Robert-Gerlich-
Museum, Burghausen, DE
Artists include Martin Klimas, Marian Luft, Katrin Korfmann, Minyoung
Paik, Gabi Blum und Hiroyuki Masuyama, Carla van de Puttelaar
2014 SOLO Ensembles Assembled, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Ensembles Assembled, The Library Shop / Photoireland, Dublin, IE
Ensembles Assembled, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL, [cat.]
Ensembles Assembled, during European Month of Photography Berlin at
Whiteconcepts by Nicole Löser, Berlin, DE
I am a Mountain, (with Jens Pfeifer) Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, CN
I am a Mountain, (with Jens Pfeifer), Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, NL
Count for Nothing, Bau Xi Photo, Toronto, CAN
GROUP Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, US
Chinese European Art Center, 15 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Xiamen, CN
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, US
Rolling Snowball/5, CEAC Djupivogur, Iceland, [cat.]
amongst others works by: Jung Jin, Lotte Geeven, SigudGudmundsson,
Sylvie Zijlmans, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Wei Na
One Minutes on Tour, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
I am not doing anything until I feel the need. curated by Joanneke Meester,
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2013 SOLO Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stokholm, SE
GROUP Starting Something, 751 Art Zone, Beijing Design Week in collaboration With
Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, CN, amongst others works by: Tilmann
Meyer Faye, Maartje Korstanje, Arne Herdriks, Jetske Visser, curated by Studio
Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters and Jurgen Bey
Kaleidoscope, Contemporary art from EU member states Farmleigh Gallery
Castleknock, Dublin, IE, [cat.], in collaboration with embassies throughout
Europe, Korfmann represents the Netherlands; Amongst others works by:
Idris Khan, Nick Ervinck, Mirosław Bałka, Kaisu Sirviö, Abigail O’Brien
White, Photography Museum Rotterdam, NL, curated by Anne van der Zwaag;
amongst others works by: Ellsworth Kelly, Jaap Scheeren, Berend Strik,
Guido van der Werve
If Walls Could Speak - photography from the ING Collection,
Foundation Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL,
amongst others works by: Ola Kolehmainen, Bas Princen,
Frank van der Salm, Thomas Wrede
Passing Time, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design Gallery, MA, US,
curated by CuratorSquared; amongst others works by: Rineke Dijkstra, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, Katrin Korfmann, Bill Viola
Troublesome, Quint Contemporay Art, San Diego, CA, US
Conceptual Photography, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2012 SOLO Rado Star Prize, OFOTO, Shanghai, CN
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stokholm/Umea, SE
Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, DE
AMC collection Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP #3Waarheid vs. Scène, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL [cat.]
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Center for the Arts Middletown, CT, US
Reconnaissance , The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London, UK
From Dusk to Dawn, Art Affairs Amsterdam, NL
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared, R.E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw
University, Greencastle, IN, US
Analog Digital, Irvine Fine Arts Center curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA, US
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared, Salina Art Center in Salina, KS, US
2011 SOLO Horizon Vanished, Art Affairs Amsterdam, NL
Voorbeeld, Gallery Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2010 SOLO Count for Nothing, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, D
GROUP Sideways, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL, [cat.]
Private Confessions, Cellow Factory curated by C. van den Bergh, London
Kosmos Kiosk, Kunstverein Giessen, DE
FLOW, Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, NL
2009 SOLO Count for Nothing, Art Affairs New York, US
Count for Nothing, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, PT
Count for Nothing, 2x2projects, Amsterdam, NL
Waiting for Julia, artMbassy, Berlin, DE
GROUP Strahl Dich Aus, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, DE, [cat.]
Space Matrix, Whiteconcepts, Berlin, DE
Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL
2008 GROUP Start, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, PT
Relocation, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Serial Photography, 2x2 projects, Amsterdam, NL
Sideways, Azad Gallery, Tehran, IR, curated by Atousa Bandeh [cat.]
3xF, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rostock, DE, curated by Judith Metz
Uitbraak, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam, NL
2007 GROUP Mystery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, curated by George Spencer, New York, US
Magie Real, artMbassy, Berlin, DE, curated by Nicole Loeser
2006 SOLO Quo Vadis, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Real spaces, fictitious spaces, curated by Régis Durand, Fundación COFF,
Edificio Tabacalera, San Sebastián, ES [cat.]
Gray.Korfmann.Youngblood, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
3xF, Frauen Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
Vorlaeufige Durchsuchung, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE [cat.]
3xF, Hauptstadtstudio ARD, Berlin, DE [cat.]
2005 SOLO I did not propose an answer, L’Aparador, Museu Abellò, Mollet des Valles, ES
GROUP Flatten Image, Akademie der Künste, Hansaplatz, Berlin, DE, (PS)
Flatten Image #04, Schwankhalle Bremen, Bremen, DE, (PS)
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery curated by Matthew Mascote, Atlanta, GA, US
Marks of Honour, Foam curated by W. van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, NL
*PAKTTotaal, PAKT, Amsterdam, NL
Marks of Honour, van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2004 SOLO Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US [cat.]
Blue Octagon, El Boulevard, San Sebastian, ES, [cat.] (PS)
GROUP Zoom op Zuidas, De Zuiderkerk, Virtueel Museum Zuidas, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
4 Positions, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Werkstatt Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste curated by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Berlin, DE
Uitgelicht 4, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Art in the Hinge, European Patent Office, The Hague, NL [cat.]
2003 SOLO Public Cube, Prix de Rome, Schiphol Airport, NL, (PS)
Art Spaces, Galeria 44, Barcelona, ES
Art Spaces, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Prix de Rome, GEM Museum voor actuele Kunst, The Hague, NL [cat.]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, NL
2002 SOLO Pink Wall, Piazza Castello, Turin, IT
Cucina Mobile, W139, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
GROUP Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein curated by Vanessa Joan Mueller &
Nicolaus Schaffhausen, Frankfurt/Main, DE [cat.]
Thresholding, Smart Project Space curated by Alice Smits, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Big Torino, International Biennale of Young Art curated by Michelangelo
Pistoletto, Torino, IT [cat.]
Out of the Digital Domain, Irvine Fine Arts Center curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA, US
The Crystal World, OutLINE curated by Christiaan Bastiaans, Amsterdam, NL
Esther Kroon Prijs, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Faces Chosen, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Portretten uit de Collectie Van Zoetendaal, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL
2001 SOLO Counter-Strike, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Viewing the Viewer, Galeria 44, Barcelona, ES
Cucina Mobile, Plus e.V., Düsseldorf, DE
GROUP Plus.Quam.Perfekt, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
eme3 Dencity, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
Appearing Live, Zu tun in B. curated by Katja Schröder, project space, Cologne, DE, [cat.]
The Body’s Performance, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
She Shows, Bagagehal Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
2000 SOLO White Wall Project, Zeedijk, Amsterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS (monography)
2017 Back Stages, ISBN:978-94-93148-06-2, 124 pages,
225 x 285 mm, published by Onomatopee, NL
2014 Ensembles assembled, ISBN 9789491677199, 112 pages, full color,
17 x 23 cm, published by Onomatopee, NL
2010 KATRIN KORFMANN 200/2010, ISBN 978-90-89102-23-2,128 pages, full color,
32 x 24 cm, published by d´jonge Hond, NL
2006 DL81 B-767-300ER, ISBN 3-88331-100-6, 40 pages, full color, 19 x 15 cm,
published by Akademie der Künste, DE
2005 Blue Octagon, 160 pages, full color, 6 x 13 cm, self published
2004 Katrin Korfmann, ISBN 90-73985-06-4, 32 pages, full color 19 x 15 cm
published by Carl Berg Gallery / Art Affairs, US / NL
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AWARDS & GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2014 Chinese European Art Center, Residency, Xiamen, CN
2013 Mondriaan Fund, basic stipend, NL
2012 Rado Star Prize, by Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, CH
2011 Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, development grant, NL
2010 Fonds BKVB, publication grant, NL
2009 Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Residency/Grant, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Residency/Grant, DE [cat.]
2004 Fonds BKVB, basic stipend, NL
Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 01, Residency/Grant, NL [cat.]
2003 Prix de Rome (public art, 2nd prize), NL [cat.]
Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL
2002 Fonds BKVB, starter stipend, NL
2001 Robert Bosch Foundation, Grant, DE
Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Residency, Biella, IT
2000 Mama Cash Award, NL
Würth Foundation, Grant, DE
1999 Esther Kroon Award, NL
EDUCATION
2000 / 2001 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
1996 - 99 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (Photography)
1997 / 98 Assistant to Ulay (Uwe F. Laysiepen)
1995 / 96 Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee
EXHIBITIONS
2019 SOLO Back Stages, Contact Photography Festival Toronto at Bau Xi Gallery, Toronto, CA
Back Stages, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, NL
GROUP The State of Transparency, Loiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, NL
artists include: Maria Barnas, Gwenneth Boelens, Ruta Butkute, Forensic
Architecture, David Jablonowski and others
Whiteconcepts, Berlin, The X show, Berlin, DE, artists include: Thorsten
Goldberg, Wanda Stang, Veronika Witte and others
Pick Me, DE GROEN, Arnhem, NL artists include: Scarlett Hooft
Graafland, Gijs Assmann, Maria Roosen and others
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
2018 SOLO Back Stages, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL
Back Stages, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
GROUP Back Stages, Troy Museum, International Canakkale Biennial, TU, artists
include: Adrian Paci, Akın Aksu, Cem Demir, Hertog Nadler, Çınar Eslek,
Guy Ben Ner, Hülya Özdemir, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind and others
Back Stages, 38CC, Delft, NL, artists include: Peter Jordaan,
Adrian Paci, Jens Pfeifer
Ode aan de Bijlmer, CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam, NL,
artists include: Hans van Houwelingen, Kaleb de Groot,
Lard Buurman and others
Back Stages, Labour and Materials, 21C, Bentonville, US,
artist include: Alejandro Cartagena, Pieter Hugo, Katrin Korfmann,
Zanele Muholi, Kara Walker and others
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
First Decade, 38 CC, Delft, NL; artist include: Gerco de Ruijter, Marjan
Teeuwen, Esther Tielemans, Hans Wilschut, Remy Jungerman and others
2017 SOLO Ensembles assembled, Kennedy van der Laan, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Yungang Art Museum, Rolling Snowball 10, Datong, CN
Athens Photo Book Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GRC
Three Shadows Art Centre, Xiamen, CN, artists include Aernout Mik,
Fahrettin Orenli, Fiona Tan, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Yang Jian,
Yang Zhifei and others
Lumen Travo Gallery, Mighty Process; artists include Jens Pfeifer,
Berend Strik, Milena Naef and Ni Haifeng
Art Affairs, Summer Show, Amsterdam, NL
BIG Art, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag
2016 SOLO Berlinartprojects, 665 km, Berlin, DE
GROUP Connection, Museum Lazienki Krolewski, Warschau,
curated by Krystof Pastor in collaboration with VBCN
140-15, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umea, Sweden
Anniversary show, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
BIG Art, Capital C, Amsterdam, NL; curated by Anne van der Zwaag;
amongst others works by: Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Krijn de Koning,
Kristján Gudmundsson, Katrin Korfmann, Joep van Liefland
Jimei x Arles, curated by Sam Stourdze and Rong Rong, Xiamen, CN
2015 SOLO Ensembles Assembled, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Hui’an, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam , NL
GROUP Inside the White Cube, Arena 1 gallery, Los Angeles, US
Curated by Carl Berg and David DiMichele. Artists include Michael Arata,
Micol Hebron, Katrin Korfmann, Kirk Miller, Maryrose Mendoza.
Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporay Art, Kansas, US
Artists include Nick Cave, Kara Walker,Katrin Korfmann, Vik Muniz, Toyin
Odutola, Angel Otero,Ebony G. Patterson, Mickalene Thomas, and more
The Painters Eye In Photography, Haus der Fotografie, Robert-Gerlich-
Museum, Burghausen, DE
Artists include Martin Klimas, Marian Luft, Katrin Korfmann, Minyoung
Paik, Gabi Blum und Hiroyuki Masuyama, Carla van de Puttelaar
2014 SOLO Ensembles Assembled, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Ensembles Assembled, The Library Shop / Photoireland, Dublin, IE
Ensembles Assembled, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL, [cat.]
Ensembles Assembled, during European Month of Photography Berlin at
Whiteconcepts by Nicole Löser, Berlin, DE
I am a Mountain, (with Jens Pfeifer) Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, CN
I am a Mountain, (with Jens Pfeifer), Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, NL
Count for Nothing, Bau Xi Photo, Toronto, CAN
GROUP Aperture Summer Open, Aperture Foundation, New York, US
Chinese European Art Center, 15 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Xiamen, CN
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, US
Rolling Snowball/5, CEAC Djupivogur, Iceland, [cat.]
amongst others works by: Jung Jin, Lotte Geeven, SigudGudmundsson,
Sylvie Zijlmans, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Wei Na
One Minutes on Tour, Power Station of Art Museum, Shanghai, CN
I am not doing anything until I feel the need. curated by Joanneke Meester,
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL
2013 SOLO Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stokholm, SE
GROUP Starting Something, 751 Art Zone, Beijing Design Week in collaboration With
Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, CN, amongst others works by: Tilmann
Meyer Faye, Maartje Korstanje, Arne Herdriks, Jetske Visser, curated by Studio
Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters and Jurgen Bey
Kaleidoscope, Contemporary art from EU member states Farmleigh Gallery
Castleknock, Dublin, IE, [cat.], in collaboration with embassies throughout
Europe, Korfmann represents the Netherlands; Amongst others works by:
Idris Khan, Nick Ervinck, Mirosław Bałka, Kaisu Sirviö, Abigail O’Brien
White, Photography Museum Rotterdam, NL, curated by Anne van der Zwaag;
amongst others works by: Ellsworth Kelly, Jaap Scheeren, Berend Strik,
Guido van der Werve
If Walls Could Speak - photography from the ING Collection,
Foundation Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam, NL,
amongst others works by: Ola Kolehmainen, Bas Princen,
Frank van der Salm, Thomas Wrede
Passing Time, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design Gallery, MA, US,
curated by CuratorSquared; amongst others works by: Rineke Dijkstra, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, Katrin Korfmann, Bill Viola
Troublesome, Quint Contemporay Art, San Diego, CA, US
Conceptual Photography, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2012 SOLO Rado Star Prize, OFOTO, Shanghai, CN
Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Galleri Andersson / Sandström, Stokholm/Umea, SE
Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, DE
AMC collection Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP #3Waarheid vs. Scène, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL [cat.]
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Center for the Arts Middletown, CT, US
Reconnaissance , The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London, UK
From Dusk to Dawn, Art Affairs Amsterdam, NL
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared, R.E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw
University, Greencastle, IN, US
Analog Digital, Irvine Fine Arts Center curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA, US
Passing Time, curated by CuratorSquared, Salina Art Center in Salina, KS, US
2011 SOLO Horizon Vanished, Art Affairs Amsterdam, NL
Voorbeeld, Gallery Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL
2010 SOLO Count for Nothing, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, D
GROUP Sideways, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL, [cat.]
Private Confessions, Cellow Factory curated by C. van den Bergh, London
Kosmos Kiosk, Kunstverein Giessen, DE
FLOW, Dutch Design Week, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven, NL
2009 SOLO Count for Nothing, Art Affairs New York, US
Count for Nothing, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, PT
Count for Nothing, 2x2projects, Amsterdam, NL
Waiting for Julia, artMbassy, Berlin, DE
GROUP Strahl Dich Aus, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, DE, [cat.]
Space Matrix, Whiteconcepts, Berlin, DE
Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, NL
2008 GROUP Start, Zaum Projects, Lisbon, PT
Relocation, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Serial Photography, 2x2 projects, Amsterdam, NL
Sideways, Azad Gallery, Tehran, IR, curated by Atousa Bandeh [cat.]
3xF, Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rostock, DE, curated by Judith Metz
Uitbraak, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam, NL
2007 GROUP Mystery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, curated by George Spencer, New York, US
Magie Real, artMbassy, Berlin, DE, curated by Nicole Loeser
2006 SOLO Quo Vadis, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Real spaces, fictitious spaces, curated by Régis Durand, Fundación COFF,
Edificio Tabacalera, San Sebastián, ES [cat.]
Gray.Korfmann.Youngblood, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
3xF, Frauen Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, DE
Vorlaeufige Durchsuchung, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, DE [cat.]
3xF, Hauptstadtstudio ARD, Berlin, DE [cat.]
2005 SOLO I did not propose an answer, L’Aparador, Museu Abellò, Mollet des Valles, ES
GROUP Flatten Image, Akademie der Künste, Hansaplatz, Berlin, DE, (PS)
Flatten Image #04, Schwankhalle Bremen, Bremen, DE, (PS)
Digital Cotton, Savannah Gallery curated by Matthew Mascote, Atlanta, GA, US
Marks of Honour, Foam curated by W. van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, NL
*PAKTTotaal, PAKT, Amsterdam, NL
Marks of Honour, van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2004 SOLO Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US [cat.]
Blue Octagon, El Boulevard, San Sebastian, ES, [cat.] (PS)
GROUP Zoom op Zuidas, De Zuiderkerk, Virtueel Museum Zuidas, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Ultrachrome, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
4 Positions, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Werkstatt Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste curated by Hubertus von Amelunxen, Berlin, DE
Uitgelicht 4, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Art in the Hinge, European Patent Office, The Hague, NL [cat.]
2003 SOLO Public Cube, Prix de Rome, Schiphol Airport, NL, (PS)
Art Spaces, Galeria 44, Barcelona, ES
Art Spaces, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
GROUP Prix de Rome, GEM Museum voor actuele Kunst, The Hague, NL [cat.]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, NL
2002 SOLO Pink Wall, Piazza Castello, Turin, IT
Cucina Mobile, W139, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
GROUP Non Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein curated by Vanessa Joan Mueller &
Nicolaus Schaffhausen, Frankfurt/Main, DE [cat.]
Thresholding, Smart Project Space curated by Alice Smits, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
Big Torino, International Biennale of Young Art curated by Michelangelo
Pistoletto, Torino, IT [cat.]
Out of the Digital Domain, Irvine Fine Arts Center curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA, US
The Crystal World, OutLINE curated by Christiaan Bastiaans, Amsterdam, NL
Esther Kroon Prijs, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Faces Chosen, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Portretten uit de Collectie Van Zoetendaal, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL
2001 SOLO Counter-Strike, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
Viewing the Viewer, Galeria 44, Barcelona, ES
Cucina Mobile, Plus e.V., Düsseldorf, DE
GROUP Plus.Quam.Perfekt, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
Open Studios, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL
eme3 Dencity, CCCB, Barcelona, ES
Appearing Live, Zu tun in B. curated by Katja Schröder, project space, Cologne, DE, [cat.]
The Body’s Performance, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NL
She Shows, Bagagehal Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL [cat.]
2000 SOLO White Wall Project, Zeedijk, Amsterdam, NL
PUBLICATIONS (monography)
2017 Back Stages, ISBN:978-94-93148-06-2, 124 pages,
225 x 285 mm, published by Onomatopee, NL
2014 Ensembles assembled, ISBN 9789491677199, 112 pages, full color,
17 x 23 cm, published by Onomatopee, NL
2010 KATRIN KORFMANN 200/2010, ISBN 978-90-89102-23-2,128 pages, full color,
32 x 24 cm, published by d´jonge Hond, NL
2006 DL81 B-767-300ER, ISBN 3-88331-100-6, 40 pages, full color, 19 x 15 cm,
published by Akademie der Künste, DE
2005 Blue Octagon, 160 pages, full color, 6 x 13 cm, self published
2004 Katrin Korfmann, ISBN 90-73985-06-4, 32 pages, full color 19 x 15 cm
published by Carl Berg Gallery / Art Affairs, US / NL
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