Katrin Loy — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography
1969 born in Göppingen
1991 - 2001 Study of Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, Master Student at
Prof. Jannis Kounellis
2005 - 2007 Postgraduate studies for Visual Arts and Therapy at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Munich
2008 - 2018 Continuing education at the Academy of Psychoanalysis in Munich
lives and works in Munich since 2002

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2017 "Person und Traum", Kunsttreff Quiddezentrum, Munich, Germany
2017 "Traumfragmente", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2018 "Traumfragmente II", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2019 "Traumfragmente III", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2020 "Traumbilder – Das Leben ein Traum", werkstatt-galerie, Munich, Germany
2021 "Mythos und Archetyp", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)
2015 Autumn Conference of the DPV, Bad Homburg, Germany
2016 "Künstlerinnen treffen Hildegunde", Meerbusch, Germany
2016 "Natur- Mensch", National Park Municipality of St. Andreasburg, Germany
2016 "Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXXIX", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2017 "Bilder, Briefe, Noten XC", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2018 "With Kind Regards V", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2019 "With Kind Regards VI", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2020 "With Kind Regards VII", Autoren Galerie 1, Munich, Germany
2020 "Sir John Hurt & Sworders Art Prize", Thurning, UK
2020 "Milano Photo Awards", International Contemporary Exhibition, M.A.D.S. Milano, Italy
2021 "Emergence 2", The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK
2021 "Women in Art", Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2021 "VAA Online Spring Expo", Visual Artists Association, UK
2021 "The Tokyo Art Exhibition", Contemporary Art Station, Japan
2021 "Borders Art Fair", "Fragmented Identities", ITSLIQUID GROUP, Venice, Italy
2021 "Contemporary", Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge London, UK
2021 "Lisbon International Contemporary Exhibition", Atelier Natália Gromicho, Lisbon, Potugal
2021 "Out of the Frame", The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK
2021 Art Fair "Alchemic Body", Itsliquid Group, London, UK
2021 "Sharing / BBK-Mitglieder stellen aus 2021", Galerie der Künstler/innen, Munich, Germany
2022 "Contemporary Third Edition", Boomer Gallery, Tower Bridge London, UK
2022 "Landscape", The Glasgow Gallery od Photography, Glasgow, UK
2022 "Urban", The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, UK

Prizes
2021 "Collector es Vision International Art Award"
2021 "Power of Creativity Art Prize"
2022 "Visions of Tomorrow Art Prize"

Description of Artistic Work
In my artistic work, the essence and soul of man is at the centre, his struggle for a vision, his utopias and abysses, his confrontation with the self and the encounter with the other. It arises both from spontaneously emerging inner images as well as from ideas about the psychic and intuitive functions of man and about his archaic experiences.
It also feeds on a state of mind and emotions, in which consciousness walks on the small degree between the conscious and the subconscious, revealing something like an inner myth that leaves its mark in the form of artistic work. This process takes place in the hope that these traces, which have become visible in this way, will also touch or even infect the other, ideally a form of infection that allows the viewer to immerse himself in his own inner myth.
I work photographically with the overlay of images and/or digital image editing. Both the superimposition and the digital alienation of the images play a decisive role in my photographic work, since I am not concerned with the depiction of the found reality, but with the new imagery created by associative overlay and alienation of the original photographic image.
One might ask: Does the form in which we perceive the world sensually, thinking, feeling and intuitively grasp a composition of a perception of reality and associative-projective imagination actually correspond? And what exactly corresponds to reality and what corresponds to fantasy? And what exactly is reality and what is fantasy? Ultimately, everything is a matter of consciousness... therefore, it is probably both and neither of them, and at the same time it is neither both nor neither of them... a PARADOX...
life is just a dream of a higher AWAKENING...

Concerning my new series "Sunken Seas":
"What if seas could sink into seas?"
The photographies are part of my new series "Sunken Seas". The series is a work in progress and comprizes 186 images up to now.
The sea as a central metaphor encompasses a pool of possible associations, fantasies and interpretations such as "the unconscious", "the hidden", "the mysterious", "the incomprehensible", "the origin", "the primordial ground", "the vessel", "the container", "the immersion in oneself and in the world" and others the viewer might associate with them.