Katharina Langer (*1979 in Cologne) is a Hamburg-based visual artist using painterly and textured painting techniques. Her compositions escape binding to any one era except the one the viewer locates it in. Interested in the phenomenon of deja-vu, the familiarity of Langer's imagery play into the recurring patterns of drama she witnesses in public life and throughout her archive of private photographs.

Finding acute parallels in social dynamics of past and present, Langer invites an uncanny comparison. She questions if we are really living a life never lived before - and - what it means to be aware of that.

Transgenerational predispositions beat throughout family lines, and social economics dictate our lives before we even begin them; by bringing attention to these recurring patterns of drama, Katharina investigates the oxymoronic limit of freedom and how that might affect future dynamics of interaction.

The starting point of a new series is selecting an image from her extensive photographic archive. From the images she is creating collages which are the inspiration for her paintings, but stand also as works for themselves. 

It is the act of constructing and deconstructing the images several times during the process that takes often years.

She is part of the interdisciplinary WAAV artist collective and is giving art workshops for children.

Katharina has exhibited in multiple shows locally and internationally including: Künstlerhaus Soottbörn (Hamburg, 2024), Tearapart gallery (Hamburg, 2023), Galerie23 (Hamburg, 2022) MOM Art Space (Hamburg, 2022) Das Kapital (Berlin, 2018) Vasso Katraki Museum (Messolonghi 2018), Communitism (Athens 2018)

Katharina studied Illustration in Hamburg.

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Photo: Julika Hartz