ABOUT ME

What excites me:
Truth, honesty, wind in trees, bodies at ease, transformation, art, liberation, fabric, freedom, beauty, co-creation, ideas, friendship, the bigger picture.

What annoys me:
Superficiality, big egos, hidden agendas, cycling in rain, closed minds, extinction, rushed mornings, overpowering aftershave.

I have got a contagious laugh, untameable hair and I am a lover of life with all its messiness and contradictions. I am a mother, wife, aunt, daughter, sister and my own best friend. I am unapologetically self-expressive and I seek to inspire truth and authentic conversations. I create art and rituals to inspire liberation, freedom and self-awareness.

I am holding two Masters in Fine Art, one from Goldsmiths College London and one from Weißensee Art School Berlin. My work has been shown internationally and I have received awards and grants for my creative contributions. Before all that I trained as a professional tailor in Munich.

In my art I work mainly with fabric, creating flags, sculptures, wall hangings or cut-paintings. Some of my sculptures have been props for performances, some of them become tools for my more intuitive shamanic work. I find textiles a very relatable material as our human bodies are in touch with them almost all the time.

Besides my passion for art I am also a seeker of truth and love. I have established a strong spiritual practice and a deep connection to the universal wisdom/intelligence which has been given so many names but can not be named.

Both my art and my transformational work stem from this place of oneness and universal connection, transcending my own personality and will. The Shamans call it ‘becoming a hollow bone’ in the sense of getting one’s egoic self out of the way to make space for something more fascinating, true and universal to come through.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in the 70’s in Bavaria, Southern Germany.

  • 2016
    Arts Council England Grant for the Arts.

    For the installation Cut From The Same Cloth in the public realm. 11 big banner flags for ESTUARY 2016 Arts Festival in Gravesend.

    Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

    2013
    Deutsche Bank Award for Fine Art, London.

    For the radio soap Affairs. Produced in collaboration with Marie von Heyl.

    2012
    Chelsea Arts Club Award, London.

    With the feminist collective Berta Koch.

    2010
    Art Award of the German National Bank, Frankfurt am Main. Solo show.

    2006-2012
    Scholarship from Cusanuswerk. Art specific carrier advancement scholarship during my academic education in Berlin and London.

    2007
    Erasmus/Sokrates Scholarship for an exchange year with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

    2007 - 2008
    Women’s Career Advancement Mentoring Programme, financed by the German Ministry of Culture and Research and Cusanuswerk. Mentor: Judith Hopf.

    2004
    Art in Public Award for an architectural artwork for a new building in Berlin.

  • 2011 - 2013
    MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

    2002 - 2009
    MFA Fine Arts / Sculpture at Weissensee Artschool Berlin. Meisterschülerin of Inge Mahn.

    Guest student Fine Art at Ècole des Beaux-Arts Paris.

    Guest student Fine Art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

  • 2024
    Blowing Against The Wind - Elizabeth Castle, Jersey. Flag installation commissioned by Jersey Heritage.

    Open Art Folkestone - The Garden Shed exhibition.

    2022
    Garden City Manifesto Banners, Whitstable Biennale, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable.

    2021
    Brotzeit am Strand (bread and butter on the beach), performative event in collaboration with Monya Pletsch as The German Embassy, Folkestone beach.

    2020
    Feeding the Fire, virtual fire ritual organised by Perform Istanbul for stay home/stay live. In collaboration with Sjoukje Gummels.

    One For All - Boob Cape. Performative cape for Take Up Space Feminist Festival organised by the Folkestone Women’s Forum.

    2019
    Cut From The Same Cloth installation of 8 big banner flags in the public realm for SALT - Festival of the sea, Folkestone.

    Commission of Smuggling Flag for Art in Romney Marsh, St. George, Ivychurch.

    2018
    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at St. John's Church, Upper Norwood, London during the Festival Of Peace.

    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at St. Peter Church, Vauxhall, London during Rhythm Village Festival.

    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at The Portico Gallery, West Norwood, London.

    2016
    Cut From The Same Cloth, installation of 11 big banner flags in the public realm for Estuary ’16

    Arts Festival, Gravesend. Supported by The Arts Council England, METAL Southend and Gravesham Council.

    2015
    Baby break

    2014
    Highly Recommended - Emerging Sculptors at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

    Sonntag London - Sonntag is a touring Berlin-based project space. Pop-up solo show in a private home in Peckham, London.

    Paragraph - Welcome to InDependence, in collaboration with Berta Koch Collective, The Rag Factory, London.

    2013
    The Pool Exhibition, Final Show, Goldsmiths College, London.

    2012
    Ritual IV, Rough Luxe Hotel Ritual, London. With Berta Koch, Feminist Collective.

    Ritual II, St James Hatcham Church, London. With Berta Koch, Feminist Collective.

    2011
    Art Award of the German National Bank, Katrin Albrecht solo show at the German National Bank, Frankfurt am Main.

    Things that never happen, Group show, Skalitzer 104_Gallery, Berlin.

    Pre-/De- form me, Group show, Pfefferberg, Berlin.

    2010
    Ganze / Teile, group show, Schuckert Höfe, Berlin.

    LOVEBOAT, group show, Kunstverein Essen, Essen.

    Shortly before the king is crowned, with Irene Pätzug, Gallerie am Plan, Pirna.

    2009
    Showing, Audio tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin.

    Thriller at Jennyfair, Jennyfair project space, Vienna.

    Masters show, Uferhallen Wedding, Berlin.

    Mahn-o-Mahn, Emerson Gallery, Berlin

    I have hope anyway, group show, Umspannwerk Humboldt, Berlin.

    2008
    Concepts of Love, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

    E-LOCALE, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin.

    Paris-Berlin Festival, Ministry for recreation, Berlin and BNP Paribas, Paris.

    2007
    Serendipity, group show, Flottmannhallen, Herne.

    2006
    LOKALE, performative interventions in public spaces and exhibition at Museum Schwerin, Schwerin.

    2005
    Lost in Translation, 9th Istanbul Biennial, 'mysafir - make yourself an artist friend in reality', collective performance project, Istanbul.

  • 2023
    Margarine Mayhem. Sculpture-making workshop for children. Casting plaster sculptures with margarine moulds.

    2022
    3 Manifesto Writing and Banner Making Workshops at North Kent College (Sixth Form), Ebbsfleet Academy Secondary School, and with the local community.

    Designing and creating 3 big banners with ideas for the new public park at Ebbsfleet Garden City.

    2021
    3 Power Sculpture Workshops during Folkestone Triennial for Creative Folkestone. For Primary and Secondary School children and a community family drop-in workshop.

    Inspired by African animistic power objects. Sculpture making with clay, rubber and small personal objects.

    2020
    Margarine Mayhem, online sculpture-making workshop for Creative Folkestone. Casting plaster sculptures with margarine moulds.

    2019
    Compost Revolution workshop for Fringe Folkestone at The Quarterhouse Folkestone. Potato printing climate strike symbols on items for demonstrations and marches.

    2018
    Ring My Bell! Flag making workshop for Creative Folkestone at Block 67, Folkestone.

    2017
    Subversive Banner making workshop at Earlscliffe College Folkestone.

    2016
    Subversive Flag making workshop for Metal Southend during the Estuary 16 Art Festival in Gravesend. Workshop onboard LV21 Lightvessel.

    Pocahontas Parade Flag making workshops in six Primary and Secondary schools in Gravesend. Research into colonial history and creation of individual hand waving flags with native American symbols for the Pocahontas parade in Gravesend.

WISDOM TEACHINGS AND TEACHERS

Nature. Life.

Some years of devotional sadhana following the path of the yoginis from the Northern Kali Kula with the incredible Aditi Devi Ma.

Shamanic work with Lynn Gosney and Bruce Scott and Simon Buxton. Direct revelation and trust in non-ordinary reality.

Benin, Togo and Ghana in West Africa, life changing encounters with the magical beauty of people and land.

Sweat lodges. Powerful, humbling, elemental ceremony.

Schweige Exerzizien - Silent retreats in a Benedictine Monastery in Germany.

The 5Rhythms. Sweat your prayers!

Art. It is like a swirling unknowable galaxy.

Yoga in its many forms for many years.

Sitting with Aunty Ivy, a Maori elder from New Zealand, during a gathering on the island of Mon in Denmark.

Drum birthing.

The love that flows through my family, my husband Giles, my daughter Tilly, her sisters Suki, Wanda and Millie, my mother, my father in spirit, my sister and her family. My friends wide and far.

Women! The friendship and sisterhood is priceless.

Motherhood. Probably the most thorough transformation of my life.

Consciousness itself- unchanging and all pervading. Where opposites collapse into oneness.