Katharina Schilling (*1984) detaches objects from their original context, isolates and emphasizes them on the canvas. The lonely and often oversized protagonists of her paintings are objects which are familiar to us from everyday life. So far they were always visible in their entirety within an abstract space. Now the fragments float around time- and weightlessly as if in front of a wall marked visibly by time. The object dissolves in front of a coloured surface into abstraction. Its origins can now only be guessed at.
Katharina Schilling pays special attention to the texture of surfaces and prefers here the flowing and changeable structure of textiles. Just like objects she paints them with pastose colour application onto the flat structure of the canvas. She keeps the subject in a state of suspense, between representation and abstraction. It is as if she stops time by doing so. In our fast moving world in which painting has lost its sovereignty of image creation to other technical media, the artist is able to use them as her real medium for deceleration.
The title of her first solo exhibition at Beck & Eggeling, Taking Silk, is borrowed from English culture. It paraphrases the appointment of a lawyer to the Queen's Counsel – attorney general of the queen – on the basis of their silken robe of office.
Katharina Schilling studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig from 2007 under Neo Rauch and then from 2009 under Heribert C. Ottersbach where she also completed a master class after receiving her diploma in 2011. She was awarded the Max Ernst Scholarship in 2011; 2013 she received the DAAD scholarship for London. During the last few years she participated in many group exhibitions, amongst others at the Rudolf-Scharpf-Gallery of the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (2013) and the Forum Kunst Rottweil (2014).
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