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November 26, 2021 to February 27, 2022
Curator: Pier Paolo Pancotto
Former fellow at the Académie de France in Rome in 2012-2013, Katinka Bock returns with a project specially conceived for Villa Medici as part of the Art Club contemporary art cycle, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto. From November 25 2021 to February 27 2022, the artist will present two bronze sculptures, Insomnie and Amnesiacreated in 2021 and exhibited in the Loggia Balthus, overlooking the Villa’s seven hectares of gardens. The Loggia Balthus hosts these two new pieces, which renew a sculptural language conceived in physical and visual relationship with the spaces it occupies.
Katinka Bock ‘s plastic research focuses on the study of matter, whether natural or artificial, and the evolutionary processes to which it is subjected when interacting with the surrounding reality. The resulting forms are the fruit of a process in which the rational and the unforeseen meet, taking on characteristics that are sometimes organic, sometimes close to an iconographic and iconological repertoire borrowed from the collective imagination. These forms are made from a variety of materials – metal, leather, wood, stone, fabric, plaster, clay, ceramics, graphite – which, combined with everyday objects, produce installations that explore questions of temporality, space, history and nature, in a delicate balance that leaves room for the unexpected and future alterations.
Born in Frankfurt (Germany), Katinka Bock is a graduate of the Kunsthochschule Berlin and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon. She now lives and works in Paris. Winner of the 14th Prix de la Fondation Ricard and the Prix Dorothea von Stetten in 2012, she was a resident at the Villa Médicis in 2012-2013. In 2019, she was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2021 she was awarded the Prix 1% marché de l’art. Recent projects include the trilogy Tomorrow’s sculpture at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, the MUDAM in Luxembourg and the IAC in Villeurbanne. During autumn 2021, his work is presented in four exhibitions: Passierschein für die Zukunft at the Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany; I-Infinito at the Hausmaninger Collection in Vienna; Segment with unknown radius at the Cibrian Gallery in San Sebastian; and Les Flammes at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Katinka Bock is represented by the galleries Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), Meyer Riegger (Berlin), Greta Meert (Brussels), and 303 (New York).
Pier Paolo Pancotto has curated the Art Club exhibition program at Villa Medici since 2016. Previously, he curated the Fortezzuola exhibition cycle at the Museo Pietro Canonica, Rome, 2016-2018; as well as exhibition projects at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London; Galleria nazionale d’arte, Tirana; Lateral Art Space, Cluj; Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Rome; Museo H. C. Andersen, Rome; Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome; Nomas Foundation, Rome; Casa Scatturin, Venice and La Fondazione, Rome. His publications include Artiste a Roma nella prima metà del ‘900 (2006); Arte contemporanea: dal minimalismo alle ultime tendenze (2010); Arte contemporanea. Il nuovo millennio (2013).
With the support of galerie JOCELYN WOLFF:
Cover image:
Katinka Bock, Amnesia, 2021
Detail, Bronze, 180x40x6x30cm
Loggia Balthus, Villa Medici, Rome, 2021
Courtesy Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville
Ph. Daniele Molajoli
Images below:
Katinka Bock, Insomnie et Amnesie (2021)
Exhibition views, Loggia Balthus, Villa Medici, Rome, 2021
Courtesy Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville
Ph. Daniele Molajoli
