2024 Katharina Arndt from TING TING ART SPACE 丁丁藝術空間

凱薩琳娜（Katharina Arndt）是一位德國的當代藝術家，在柏林和巴賽隆納生活。她在布倫瑞克藝術學院學習美術、獲得了約翰·阿姆萊德的美術碩士學位。

凱薩琳娜通過人造介質（如 PVC 薄膜、漆紙和有機玻璃）以及光滑的丙烯酸塗料和漆標記等，用光滑的紋理來代表我們的塑膠和物質文化。她的藝術議題主要是對網路的觀察和對數位時代下大眾消費的刻畫，她筆下的卡通人物反映了我們如何在網路上表達自己，以及我們如何在沉迷於虛擬世界的同時又迷失在現實世界中。快速、簡約、近乎童趣的主題和媒介，在描繪她的日常生活時諷刺了當代大眾消費主義審美——頹廢、豐富的社會。

許多與海灘有關的畫作、日光浴、曬傷，甚至啤酒罐或果汁等西班牙品牌的飲料，都可以看到巴賽隆納對凱薩琳娜的影響。她還認為服裝和配飾完美地體現了人類當代所處時代的精神。她的作品中現實與幻想之間的鮮明對比反映了藝術家年輕時在德國東部的生活，當時沒有超市裡沒有任何食物。她對我們現代日常活動和行為的荒謬深感困惑，並採用一種看似幼稚的繪畫方式，試圖退後一步，以真實的方式看待事物。

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 Barclona 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.