Katinka bock biography for kids
Early life Katinka Bock was born in Frankfurt am Main and studied sculpture and visual arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, receiving her diploma in.!
Using clay, natural and found materials, and more recently bronze, Katinka Bock creates sculptures and installations that explore temporality and space.
Katinka Bock
Katinka Bock has a predilection for modest and natural materials like terracotta, wood, plaster, ceramic, leather and fabric. With a sort of delicate simplicity, she often associates these materials to found objects. For the artist, used materials hold a sense of something beyond their materiality.
They are provocative because of the way in which they evoke deep, immediate emotions that precede conceptualisation. In her practice, Bock invests in the exhibition spaces and conceives her works in resonance. Just the same, she crafts a mental space in her work to subtly invite spectator to reflect.
Katinka Bock has been selected for artist residencies in France, USA, Germany and Italy at the Villa Medici, Rome in 2012-2013.
Born in in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Katinka Bock is a graduate of the Berlin Weissenssee School of Art and of the National Art School of Lyon.In 2012 she was winner of the prestigious Fondation d’entreprise Ricard prize, France. In 2015 she received the Visual Arts Grant of the Fondacion Botin, Spain. She was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, France, and won the Prix de production