Studio Bibi Katholm
Artist
Bibi Katholm is a visual artist with an MA Painting degree from the Royal College of Art in London. She was born in Denmark and is currently based in Copenhagen.Her painting practice is about movement, time, rhythm and fluidity. She is interested in the nature of painting and how it has survived several dissolutions and declines, but still persists as a lively and bodily artistic medium. One that’s never actually challenged by technological advancement or artificial intelligence.
Short description:
My works are characterised by an abstract force, freed from the restraint of specific narrative interpretation. In this sense, the paintings emerge like the collapse of a singular signifying language, while addressing the rise of movement, co-activity, experimentation, hybridisation and improvisational actions.
I've travelled extensively while exhibiting my work and curating exhibitions internationally, and I've had work presented in various group and solo exhibitions in cities such as Copenhagen, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, and New York.
View from your window:
The view from my window has changed so many times during my nomadic years of travel, doing artist residencies and exhibitions abroad. I've been used to waking up to the Pacific Ocean and the palm tree silhouettes of California, the gritty warehouse cityscapes of Lower East Side Manhattan or the cozy, uneventful streets of Copenhagen in November. I've had live-work spaces where my home was also my studio, but these days I prefer what I currently have, which is a beautiful small and light-filled top floor apartment in Central Copenhagen with a view of an expansive green courtyard garden + a studio space that's located one block away - walking distance - with enough space for me to do large scale painting. The studio also has big windows facing a little green courtyard. Light and greenery, the two things I'm always attracted to.
What's your contribution?
I wrote an editorial for The Empty Square - December 2021.
What brings you here?
I've known about and followed The Empty Square since the beginning, and I always hoped to participate and make a valuable contribution to the project.
What's the most important?
The most important thing to me, is that my work as an artist and my writing brings a deeper understanding of the connection between nature, creativity and love.
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