Katja Novitskova

Katja Novitskova

Spirit, Curiosity and Opportunity, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (03.05.2014–28.06.2014)
Born 1984 (age 31–32)
Tallinn, Estonia
Education University of Lübeck, Germany
Sandburg Institut, Amsterdam
University of Tartu,Estonia
Known for Installation
Notable work The Cambrian Explosion 001 (2012), Post Internet Survival Guide (2010)[1]
Movement Postinternet

Katja Novitskova (born 1984 in Tallinn, Estonia) is an installation artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin. Her work focuses on issues of technology, evolutionary processes, digital imagery and corporate aesthetics. Novitskova is interested in investigating how, "media actively redefines the world and culture, and everything,"[2] related to art, nature and commerce.

Education

Novitskova holds degrees in Semiotics and Cultural Studies as well as a specialization in Media Arts from the University of Tartu, Estonia. She also completed a Masters of Science in Digital Media, University of Lübeck, Germany in addition to studying at the Graphic Design department at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. Further funding and research for her artistic practice has been supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the residency programme for visual artists at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and the Mondriaan Fund.

Work

Novitskova is currently represented commercially by the Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin.

She has shown at SALTS, Basel, Bard Centre for Curatorial Studies with Timur Si-Qin, M HKA, Antwerp,[3] Belgium and the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Key themes in her practice have evolved from an interest in post-internet art practices, technology and the biological evolution within the current geological era (the Anthropocene).[4] A re-occurring theme in her works are images of animals sourced online which appear larger than life in her installations and are digitally printed onto aluminium. These works belong specifically to a series of images titled Approximation. For her first solo exhibition Macro Expansion she reassembles images from online search engines by filtering them into recombinations influenced by advertisement and corporate branding. By lifting images from their "natural" habitat she demonstrates the evolutionary processes of technological advancement, economic expansion and positivistic adaptations to flora, fauna and humankind.[5]

Novitskova was also a key contributor to Digital Life Design Women14 in Munich where she presented, "Patterns of Activation" moderated by art curator, critic and art historian Hans-Ulrich Obrist.[6] She states that, "“The notion of a survival guide arises as an answer to a basic human need to cope with increasing complexity. In the face of death, personal attachment and confusion, one has to feel, interpret and index this ocean of signs in order to survive.” - Katja Novitskova, “Post Internet Survival Guide 2010.[1]

In December 2013 Novitskova participated in TEDxVaduz [7] which was organized by the artists Simon Denny and Daniel Keller at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein. The collaborative project was an independently organized and licensed TED event which aimed to implicitly critique the format of branding and the cultural implications of TED's global economies. Invited artist created a stage design as well as objects and images which were exhibited as part of a series of presentations and speakers that reconsidered the licensing of TED talks as a corporate, global entity as a third party presenter. Novitskova contributed artworks to the installation as well as a talk titled "Attention, Economies and Art." Contributions were made by critical thinkers in the form of presentations in the field of art, architecture, design, economics and politics. The conference including objects and images by artists Peter Fend, Femke Herregraven, Simon Denny, Daniel Keller and Emily Segal.

References

  1. 1 2 Post Internet Survival Guide. Revolver Publishing by VVV. ISBN 978-3-86895-350-3.
  2. ↑ Smolik, Noemi (September 2014). "Katja Novitskova". Artforum International.
  3. ↑ Don't You Know Who I Am?. Antwerp (BE): Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. ISBN 9789072828491.
  4. ↑ Bell, Kirsty (2014). "Silicon wafer weapons and Mars missions". Freize. no. 166: 232–233.
  5. ↑ Cornell, Lauren (2013). "A C O N V E R S AT I O N B E T W E E N L A U R E N C O R N E L L AND JOHN KELSEY, MARK LECKEY, KATJA NOVITSKOVA , JACOLBY SATTERWHITE". Mousse. No. 37: 54–63.
  6. ↑ "The Art of Conversation".
  7. ↑ "TEDxVaduz Redux".
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