Catrin Bolt
with Marlene Bolt
Catrin Bolt lives and works in Breitenstein and Vienna. She studied from 1997 to 2003 under Peter Kogler in the media class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
In addition to the concept of expanded public space and the conceptual questioning of exhibitions, the artist explores the potential of art in everyday spaces. By re-perspectiving the familiar, re-evaluating it symbolically, and employing the artifices of fiction, fakes, and subtle irritations, she defies social realities with new perspectives. With these strategies, she makes visible social absurdities as well as the imaginary, but also real, power of sign systems.
In memorial projects, she developed independent forms of a contemporary culture of remembrance, such as the city-wide memorials Lauftext (Graz) and Alltagsskulpturen (Vienna). In 2015, she received the prestigious Otto Mauer Prize, in 2019 the Theodor Körner Prize for her project "Private EU Border Fence," and the Lower Austrian State Prize.
JURY
Francesco Bonami
Farshid Moussavi
Heinrich Pichler
Martin Prinzhorn
Peter Noever
FINAL PROJECT
