Katja Pratschke
Katja Pratschke (1967, Frankfurt am Main), is an artist researcher, filmmaker, media artist and curator. She collaborates with various artists and is a member of the artist collectives top_OS and Nodes. Selected recent exhibitions and projects include: Black Box (2021-23), VR Experience, in collaboration with the Memorial and Museum Sachsenhausen, House of Broken Utopias (2024), VR Experience and NYKSUND BERLIN ARTISTIC ARCHIVE (NBAA), a collaborative NODES project, presented at Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) 2024.
Since 2000, Katja Pratschke and Gusztáv Hámos have been experimenting with the still image in a cinematographic context - in the cinema as well as in the exhibition space - and investigating the relationship between stillness and movement. Their works have been shown at the Tate Modern in London, Triennal of Photography Hamburg, Mostra Internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia, SFMOMA, YBCA San Francisco, among others. Their installation Transposed Bodies is at the moment exhibited at Time Machine – A New selection of the collection of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest. With their installations and photofilms, they investigate how human cognition is changed by cinematography and which consequences the recording of image phases has for our perception of time, space, and movement. By dealing with three-dimensional still images, they seek an answer to the question: why do we care about statues and monuments. And this question leads the authors to another fundamental area of human cognition, which is none other than the study of historical consciousness. In the framework of research into historical consciousness, interactive installations were made of the traces of traumatized places (destroyed churches, concentration camps, etc.) because coming to terms with the past the so-called "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" is considered an extremely important current issue. (2024)
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