凱薩琳是一位來自德國的當代藝術家，目前生活與創作於柏林與巴塞隆納。她常使用人造材質作為創作媒介，如PVC膠片、亮面紙與壓克力板，搭配亮光壓克力顏料與漆筆作畫，透過這些具光澤感的材質來反應當今塑膠化、物質至上的文化現象。凱薩琳娜的創作核心關注於數位時代的溝通，以及對大眾消費行為的描繪。她的卡通式人物反映出我們在網路場域中如何表達自我，以及在沉迷虛擬世界的同時，是如何的迷失於現實之中。
在她眾多的畫作中，可見與海灘、曬傷有關的意象，甚至是西班牙當地品牌的啤酒罐或果汁，顯示出巴塞隆納對她創作的影響。
Katharina Arndt is a Contemporary artist from Germany who lives and works between Berlin and Barcelona. She studied Fine Arts at Braunschweig school of art and later on obtained her Master of Fine Arts by John Armleder.
She does this through artificial mediums such as PVC film, lacquer paper and Plexiglas with glossy acrylic paint and lacquer markers, using glossy texture to represent our plastic and materialistic culture.
The focus of Arndt’s practice is the observation of digital communication and the portrayal of mass consumption in the digital age. Her cartoon figures are a reflection on how we express ourselves in the digital arena and how we are becoming ever obsessed with the digital world whilst losing ourselves in the physical. Fast, reduced, almost childlike, motifs and medium ironize the contemporary mass consumerist aesthetic of a decadent, abundant society in picturing her everyday life.
Many paintings with beach references, sunburns, and even Spanish brands of drinks like beer cans or juices can see the influence of Barcelona on Arndt. She also thinks clothes and accessories give a perfect impression of the spirit of the age we are living in. The stark contrast between reality and fantasy in her artworks reflect the artist's livelihood in her young age in the East side of Germany, back when there wasn't any food in supermarkets.
She is deeply perplexed by the absurdity of our modern day-to-day activities and behaviors, and adopts a seemingly childish way of painting as an attempt to step back and look at things as they genuinely are.
在她眾多的畫作中，可見與海灘、曬傷有關的意象，甚至是西班牙當地品牌的啤酒罐或果汁，顯示出巴塞隆納對她創作的影響。
Katharina Arndt is a Contemporary artist from Germany who lives and works between Berlin and Barcelona. She studied Fine Arts at Braunschweig school of art and later on obtained her Master of Fine Arts by John Armleder.
She does this through artificial mediums such as PVC film, lacquer paper and Plexiglas with glossy acrylic paint and lacquer markers, using glossy texture to represent our plastic and materialistic culture.
The focus of Arndt’s practice is the observation of digital communication and the portrayal of mass consumption in the digital age. Her cartoon figures are a reflection on how we express ourselves in the digital arena and how we are becoming ever obsessed with the digital world whilst losing ourselves in the physical. Fast, reduced, almost childlike, motifs and medium ironize the contemporary mass consumerist aesthetic of a decadent, abundant society in picturing her everyday life.
Many paintings with beach references, sunburns, and even Spanish brands of drinks like beer cans or juices can see the influence of Barcelona on Arndt. She also thinks clothes and accessories give a perfect impression of the spirit of the age we are living in. The stark contrast between reality and fantasy in her artworks reflect the artist's livelihood in her young age in the East side of Germany, back when there wasn't any food in supermarkets.
She is deeply perplexed by the absurdity of our modern day-to-day activities and behaviors, and adopts a seemingly childish way of painting as an attempt to step back and look at things as they genuinely are.
