Katja Schenker

Katja Schenker was born in Saint-Gall, Switzerland in 1968.

Lives and works in Zurich.

Katja Schenker has been developing a work that combines performance and sculpture, using drawing, photography and video to deepen and document the successive stages of her creative process. During her performances, the artist creates different physical actions which transform materials or objects. These performances are complex processes which often originate in an emotional intention, then transcribed to a drawing, then staged, before culminating in sculptures which conserve the trace of the creative act, sometimes becoming even relic-like objects.

Her work has been the subject of several exhibitions including the solo show at the Jinji Lake Art Museum in Suzhou or the group show I am the space where I am at the He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, China. In 2019 the artist presented Satka at the 5th Ural Biennale and in 2022 she participated in the exhibition (Take Care: Art and Medicine) at the Kunsthaus Zurich. More recently, the artist completed an artist residency at the Instituto Svizzero in Rome, as well as a residency in London for which she was selected by the Landis & Gyr Foundation. Katja Schenker has received numerous awards, including the Swiss Art Awards, for three consecutive years, as well as the Swiss Performance Art Award and, in 2021, the St. Gallen Foundation's "Recognition Prize".