Katinka Bock

With a sculptural practice in which the consideration of existing spaces is essential, Katinka Bock (b. 1976, Frankfurt am Main) explores how the passage of time is perceived. Rooted in western art traditions like process art, Arte Povera and site-specific art, Bock makes artworks using a formal language that is rather abstract and anti-monumental, also employing elements that situate them on a human scale in each given environment. Her pieces are often the result of simple gestures like folding, rolling and placing, but also include chance and the unexpected. Her research is translated through simple material like clay, sand, stone, chalk, wood and metal, and even water and air. In Atlantic, Personne (2012), she sketches a metaphorical landscape to which the title lends a figurative connotation. On a thin, sharply outlined layer of sand that is always adapted to the exhibition space, an indefinite stele, standing alone poetically evokes a human form facing the horizon. The sculpture Kalender (Calendar, 2018) emphasises the durational aspect of Katinka Bock's work. The work exists in several versions, each varying in colour and the quantity of unique, glazed ceramic cubes resembling cobblestones. This fifty-part iteration, glazed with bleu de Sevres glaze, forms a line along a wall which is altered on a daily basis, translating the advance of time into a movement in space. Each day, one stone is carried from one end of the line to the other, so that the sculpture moves slowly through the space during the period that it is exhibited.