RIZZUTOGALLERY ‐ PALERMO KATHARINA MADERTHANER

RIZZUTOGALLERY ‐ PALERMO KATHARINA MADERTHANER (Meerbusch, Germany, 1982. Vive e lavora a Düsseldorf ) Il lavoro artistico di Katharina Maderthaner trova ispirazione in alcune bizzarre situazioni della vita quotidiana: le piante artificiali che si trovano all’interno degli uffici ammuffiti di certi funzionari, il finto marmo che ricopre pavimenti e banconi di locali pubblici che tentano di simulare un lusso inesistente, i siti web o i flyer pubblicitari con pattern di sfondo realizzati in Photoshop da grafici improvvisati che provano a riprodurre improbabili design tessili d’avanguardia … Tutto questo innesca un corto circuito tra vero e simulato, tra originale e imitazione, tra buono e cattivo gusto, che fa scattare nell’Artista la necessità di rielaborare l’esperienza attraverso un lavoro di sintesi e di sublimazione, fino alla creazione di qualcosa di assolutamente nuovo, del tutto privo di qualunque pretesa di critica sociale. Le opere della Maderthaner suscitano così nell’osservatore un disagio di deja‐vu, ricordando qualcosa che si crede di conoscere: il banale rispecchia il serio, la copia rispecchia l’originale, il falso e l’imitazione rispecchiano il reale, in una amalgama tra il bricolage quotidiano e una genialità nascosta, tra il capolavoro e il prodotto di massa, tra il design e il disastro. L’artista realizza un passaggio tra i due mondi trasformando l’uno nell’altro e sfocando i confini. Nelle sue installazioni, nelle sue immagini e nei suoi oggetti si trovano referenze che a loro volta fanno capo ad altre referenze. Una lunga genealogia del gusto si dischiude davanti all’osservatore della sua arte. Come una simbolica corrente che trascina oggetti, immagini, idee e motivi, lasciando dietro di sé un ricco, eterogeneo e bizzarro deposito. La Maderthaner apre così prodigiosamente una porta verso il nuovo, verso la percezione di una bellezza inaspettata, “perché la bellezza – dice Katharina – non è qualcosa che è NELLE cose, essa è TRA di loro ‐ e tra loro e noi.” English version The artistic work of Katharina Maderthaner finds inspiration in some bizarre situations of daily life: artificial plants that are inside the moldy offices of certain officials, faux marble covering floors or bar counters of public places that try to simulate a non‐existent luxury, websites or advertising flyers with improbable background pattern created in Photoshop by amateur designers who try to reproduce vanguard textile design ... All this triggers a short circuit between real and simulated, between original and imitation, between good and bad taste, which causes in the Artist the need to rework the experience through a work of synthesis and sublimation, until the creation of something absolutely new, completely devoid of any pretense of social criticism. The works of Maderthaner in this way arouse the viewer a uncomfortable of deja‐vu, reminding us something that we think we know: banal reflects serious, copy reflects original, fake and imitation reflect real, in an amalgam between daily bricolage and a hidden genius, masterpiece and mass product, design and disaster. So, the Artist creates a passage between the two worlds, transforming the one into the other and she bluring/effacing boundaries. In her installations, images and objects there are references which in turn are part of other references. A long genealogy of taste unfolds before the viewer of her art. As a symbolic current that drags objects, images, ideas and motifs, leaving behind a rich, diverse and bizarre deposit. In this way, Maderthaner opens prodigiously a door toward the new, toward the perception of an unexpected beauty, "because beauty ‐ says Katharina ‐ is not something that is IN things, it is BETWEEN them ‐ and between them and us." RIZZUTOGALLERY ‐ PALERMO KATHARINA MADERTHANER
STUDY
09-14 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Richard Deacon
2013 Meisterschüler / honored student of Richard Deacon
before Bergischen Universität Wuppertal
GRANTS
2015
Kunstfonds Arbeitsstipendium (work scholarship), Stiftung
Kunstfonds
2015
Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti-Stipendium der Stadt Köln
2011
Arbeitsstipendium (work scholarship), Forum für Neue Kunst
Etaneno, Namibia (in Cooperation with Museum für Neue Kunst
Freiburg)
CURATORIAL WORK
since 2010
Co-founder oft the exhibition space„ Raum für
vollendete Tatsachen“, Düsseldorf (together with
Chrisitian
Schreckenberger)
since 2013
Curator of the exhibition space „Vitrine“,
Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2015
Curator of the exhibition space „Q18 / Quartier
am Hafen“ Köln
TEACHING
2016
Lectureship, Folkwang Universität der Künste,
Essen
2013/14 Lectureship, Department Sculpture at Universität Siegen
2014
Lectureship Department Sculpture at
Kunsthochschule Mainz
EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2016
Miracoli!, RizzutoGallery, Palermo (Solo)
Kunstraum of the City Düsseldorf, Germany
Bruch & Dallas, Cologne, Germany
Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf,
Germany
2015
World Wide Wunder (final Exhibition of the Dr. Dormagen-GuffantiScholarship, Cologne, Germany (Solo) (Kat.)
Touch Me, Hebebühne, Wuppertal, Germany
Stream Of Consciousness, Werft 77, Kunst im Hafen e.V. Düsseldorf,
Germany
Germany, mon amour!”, Contemporary in Germany, Collection of
Luciano Bennetton, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venedig
Musterdeutung, Kunst aus NRW, Kornelimünster, Aachen, Germany
Gustav-Lübke Museum, Hamm, Germany
id.new talents, Quartier im Hafen, Cologne, Germany
sweethearts, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
Ist nicht schlimm, wenn es schnell geht, Faerber Ausstellungsraum,
Wuppertal, Germany
Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
2014
Vanilla Kisses, Kunstraum Gagarin, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Fest, Gasthof Worringer Platz & Fernbusbahnhof Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsalon zu Gast im WP8, Düsseldorf, Germany
promise and doubt, Galerija AZ, Zagreb, Croatia
Another Place / Another Space / Together, Quadriennale Düsseldorf,
Germany
New Talents, Biennale Cologne, Cologne, Germany (Kat.)
68. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung, Museum Solingen,
Germany (Kat.)
WINWIN, Jack in the box, Cologne, Germany
risguardi, Libreria Easy Reader, Palermo, Italy
Den gülden Coppe, Kunstliefde, Ruimte voor Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht,
Netherlands
2013
Paradise, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kunstsalon, zu Gast bei SPAM, Düsseldorf, Germany
float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Sittart Galerie, Düsseldorf,
Germany
Graumenta, Zeitgenössische Positionen aus der Sammlung Grau,
Laboratorium Dortmund, Germany
Queerdenker (kurated by Dr. Alessandro Pinto), Palermo, Italy
NEXT, Grölle pass:projects, Wuppertal, Germany
raum für vollendete tatsachen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2012
Vollbildmodus, Kunstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck,
Austria (Kat.)
maybe, Kunstverein Trier, Germany (Solo)
GO FOR IT, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (Solo)
Die Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf,
Germany
An den Rändern der Kunst, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte / SingleBar, Düsseldorf
Dyssomnia, Hans-Peter-Zimmer-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
22 Fachgeschäfte, Kunstverein Mischpoke, Mönchengladbach,
Germany
homegrown, Ostrale, Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer
Künste, Dresden, Germany (Kat.)
2011
Klasse Deacon, Walzwerk, Düsseldorf, Germany
YOU ARE WELCOME, Ringstube, Mainz, Germany (Solo)
Sei Single, Single-Bar, Düsseldorf, Germany
Love & Hate Wuppertal, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Germany
Ausstellung der Stipendiaten, Forum für Neue Kunst Etaneno, Namibia
Bartlebooth & Smautf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010
speak my language, Grölle pass:projects, Wuppertal, Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Kunst aus NRW, Kornelimünster Aachen, Germany
Collection of Lucioano Bennetton, Italy
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Graumenta, Dortmund/Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum im Busch, Etaneno, Namibia, in Cooperation with Museum für
Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany
Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Verein zur
Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen e.V. (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf 2015 /
2016
68. Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung, Kunstmuseum Solingen
(Hrsg.), Solingen 2014
New Talents, Biennale Cologne No.4, Die Neue Sachlichkeit, Köln 2014
Drei, Grölle pas:projects (Hrsg.), Wuppertal, 2014
Jahrespublikation. 2012-13, Tiroler Künstlerschaft (Hrsg.), Innsbruck
2013
Grand Prix, Katharina Maderthaner (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf 2013
homegrown, Ostrale, Internationale Ausstellung zeitgenössischer
Künste (Hrsg.), Dresden 2012
Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Verein zur
Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen e.V. (Hrsg.), Düsseldorf 2012
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (TV, Radio)
Der Künstler als Existenzgründer, WDR 3, Podiumsdiskussion im
Kolumba Museum mit dem NRW-Wirtschaftsminister Gerreit Duin und
den Künstlern Hermann Abrell, Boris Becker, Matthias Danberg und
Katharina Maderthaner, Köln, 2014
Die Kunst, von der Kunst zu leben, mit Kurator Jochen Heufelder, und
den Künstlern Thomas Rentmeister und Katharina Maderthaner, WDR
5 / Scala, 2014
Perisphere Portraits, www.perisphere-portrait.de/dusseldorf/37katharina-maderthaner
Von der Hass-Liebe zu eigenartigen Dingen, Künstlerportraits, WDR
WestArt