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Katja strunz biography

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Katja Strunz (b. 1970, Ottweiler, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. Her work revolves around the intertwining of time, space and matter. The phenomenon of falling and folding runs through all her genres and stands metaphorically for a kind of post-traumatic compression of space and time, the collapse of here and there, of now and then. Constructed splinters and corners, triangles and spaces seem like fragments violently blasted out. The fall and the fold form the basis of her abstract sculptural practice to reflect indetermination as well as interdependence.


Her work challenges notions of linear time and development, suggesting a double metaphor that encompasses both: the connotation of a lost vision and a potentially new way of seeing. This approach manifests itself in her sculptural works, her expansive installations, and works on paper.


Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues such as the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, Camden Arts Centre in London, the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld. She participated in

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File Note 46: Katja Strunz

Pregeometric Shells of a Rational Curve of Degree 5

Looking up the term pregeometric in Katja Strunz’s title and delving into the few hints proposed by the internet leaves me dizzy and slightly confused. It reminds me of the feeling I had when the universe was explained to me in school. It was a hot summer day and around noon. I was staring out of the window from the physics studio of my school on the fourth floor down into the neighbouring Schreber garden colony, feeling lost and also terrified. Space, time and movement in the dimensions described by the teacher distorted the visible reality of the small huts baking under the sun. I must have been ten years old. I also remember the faint feeling that it was unfair to be kicked out into this indefinite space.

Pregeometric is not a common term, but one may find it, or invent it, if one needed to describe a time before. But before what exactly? It’s certainly a sentimental feeling of beforeness anyway. One can read it as purely imaginative, maybe even comforting, or a sort of Walden term. Or remember

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Katja Strunz

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