Katie Holten
Katie Holten (1975, Dublin) studied art and art history at the National College for Art & Design in Dublin and the UDK Berlin from 1994-1998. In 2003 she represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, (2010); The Bronx Museum, New York (2009); Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE (2008); Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2008) and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2007). Holten has been part of group exhibitions at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, NCCA Moscow, the 1st Cartagena Biennial, BOZAR in Brussels, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Storm King Arts Center in New York, Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, and the 1st Prague Biennial. She is represented by Galerie Van Horn, Cologne.
Katie Holten lives and works worldwide.
www.katieholten.com
http://www.van-horn.net/
Grants & Awards:
The Arts Council of Ireland
The Fulbright Scholarship
Pollock Krasner Award
English Version
Under the watchful eyes of Offenbach's citizens, Katie Holten is developing a walking route from 40 signs in public space that connects all six locations of Hidden View and at the same time opens up new paths into the city. Based on the hits from the research for #OffenbachAmMain, which mainly consist of selfies, Holten extracts a human eye from each sign, which leads through the city as a drawn signpost and represents a site-specific continuation of her conceptual preoccupation with nature and people. The order supposedly created by the signs and the suggestion of a binding system that can be followed ultimately leads nowhere. The individually accessible route revolves around itself, so to speak. It thus represents a subtle observation of the laws of transit movements.