‘Waldung’, german for grove, depicts a section of trees in a forest, some of them fitted with platforms on various hights, ropes and wires hung from
one tree to another.
A handfull of people are standing on the platforms or hang in the ropes.
This, for Korfmann’s work unusual perspective nevertheless challenges the
viewers eye. The trees appear taller, some of them endlessly growing into space; there is no ground we could refer to nor a distinguished end of sight. As in many of Korfmann’s works it’s an arbitrary still in time and space and it is unclear at which point we are at.
Looking at trees is soothing for our minds and fills us with joy.
Climbing in trees even takes us a step further and unites us with the beloved nature that we still feel to be part of but can’t seem to find an adequate way to relate to it.
Katrin Korfmann (1971, Berlin, Germany) has held residencies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2000), Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy (2001) and the Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen (2014), China. Since the late 1990s, her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, art institutions and public spaces.
Her work is represented in collections in the U.S.: C21, Bill and Christy Gautreaux, Fidelity, Twitter; in Germany: Würth Foundation, Alison & Peter W. Klein, European Patent Office, Robert Bosch Foundation; in the Netherlands: Drake Collection, AMC Art Collection, AkzoNobel Art Collection, Bouwfonds Art
Collection, Rabo Real Estate Group, ING Art Collection, VandenBroek Foundation, Plancius Art Collection, Rijnstate art collection, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Carla & Hugo Brown, UMC Utrecht. She won several prizes, including Radostar Prize (CH), Prix de Rome (2nd prize) and the Esther Kroon Award (NL).