Katja Novitskova at 15. Gwangju Biennial, Korea
Katja Novitskova (b. 1984 Tallinn, Estonia) lives and works in Amsterdam. She was artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2013 to 2014.
Katja Novitskova’s works include sculptures generated from existing online imagery and text, installations, video and artist publications. In her work, she attempts to capture the human expansion that is not just geographical (as applied to peoples, territories and mineral resources), but rather biological: genomes, bio-molecular structures, neural firings, embryogenesis and other inner workings of human and nonhuman life. The frontier logic comes with the requirement for extensive mapping, which – in an era of big-data analysis, genetic engineering and AI – means a colossal amount of digital pattern processing, a lot of it in the form of images. Novitskova often uses this visual information taken from mainly scientific sources (images of the lab worm species C. Elegans, datasets of automatic wildlife photographs) as a material in her work. Creating arrays of translation between various media, she is interested in the form-generating potential of art and its capacity to extrapolate current trends and realities.
On view until December 1
Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju Biennale, the 15th Gwangju Biennale titled Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century, gathers 72 artists from 30 countries to attempt to map the complexity of the contemporary world.
Gwangju Biennale is the history and pride of Korean biennales. Since its establishment in 1994, the thirteen editions of the Gwangju Biennale have made an enormous contribution to the development of art communities in and outside of Korea. From its beginning as a representative domestic art festival, the Gwangju Biennale has evolved into one of the most respected and reputable international art events.
Artist List: Saâdane Afif, Haseeb Ahmed, Deniz Aktaş , Noel W. Anderson, Andrius Arutiunian, Kevin Beasley, Wendimagegn Belete, Bianca Bondi, Dora Budor, Peter Buggenhout, Angela Bulloch, Alex Cerveny, Cheng Xinhao, Choi Haneyl, Gaëlle Choisne, Anna Conway, Binta Diaw, John Dowell, Hayden Dunham, Liam Gillick, Loris Gréaud, Matthias Groebel, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Marguerite Humeau, Agata Ingarden, Hye Joo Jun, Jun Hyoung San, Kim Hyeong Suk, Kim Jayi, YoungEun Kim, Dominique Knowles, Agnieszka Kurant, Hyewon Kwon, Netta Laufer, Brianna Leatherbury, Yein Lee, Oswaldo Maciá, Mira Mann, Cinthia Marcelle, Vladislav Markov, Beaux Mendes, Myriam Mihindou, Na Mira, Saadia Mirza, David Noonan , Katja Novitskova, Josèfa Ntjam, Emeka Ogboh, Frida Orupabo, Lydia Ourahmane, Mimi Park, Philippe Parreno, Amol K. Patil, Harrison Pearce, Lucy Raven, Tabita Rezaire, Marina Rheingantz, Marina Rosenfeld, Max Hooper Schneider, Franck Scurti, Soomin Shon, Jura Shust, Sofya Skidan, Anastasia Sosunova, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Sung Tieu, Julian Abraham "Togar", Unmake Lab, Yuyan Wang, Ambera Wellmann, Kandis Williams, Phillip Zach