Kathrin Siegrist

The question of organicity - the capacity of each living being to change, to adapt, to remain in its identity but transforming it to the circumstances, adapting it and assimilating other identities, other circumstances – is continuously present in my work. Can the practice of painting refer to a space, that is not only the space of flatness or the architectural space but the space of the bodies that perceive and sense the world collectively?

Recently I have conceived what I call „an active painting“, a practice that is invested in activating painting not only to be seen but to appeal directly to the spectator, appeal to touch, appeal to the idea of refuge, of volume, of an interiority of which we can all be a part. My work is a body in transition that needs all bodies to remain alive.

Kathrin Siegrist lives and works in Basel, Switzerland. She holds a Master in Fine Arts as well as a Master in Arts and Design Education, both from the Basel Academy of Art and Design HGK FHNW. She studied painting at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia, in 2006. Kathrin Siegrist has been working in various collaborations, amongst them „Louise Guerra“ (2013-2017), a collective, artistic fiction. 2018 she co-founded the Louise Guerra Archive, an artistic authorship, caring for and activating the works and relics of Louise Guerra. Kathrin Siegrist received several grants including two grants from the city of Basel (2016, 2021), a residency in Paris by Atelier Mondial (2016) and the Christina Spoerri Preis (2018). Her work has been shown in numerous institutions including Kunsthalle Basel (CH), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (LI), Kunstraum Niederösterreich (A), Kunsthaus Baselland (CH), Kunstmuseum Bern (CH). Furthermore, her work is part of several collections, such as the collection of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Ricola Art Collection.
Kathrin Siegrist's artistic work resonates with her art educational practice. She has been a lecturer at the institute for Art and Design Education, HGK Basel (2017-2021), and is currently the head of the painting workshop of the institute Art Gender Nature of the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW (since 2021).

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