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New York City, USA • b. 1983
Based in New York, Katherina Olschbaur trained in painting, animation film and stage design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. The Austrian-born artist's work reflects on connections and conflicts between dichotomous ideas such as systems of order and chaos, creation and destruction, devotion and obsession, and collective and individual unconscious. Exploring diverse themes from historical painting to the culture of nightlife, her influences abound and scatter throughout each work, sliding in and out of meaning as they are detached from their origin. Allegorical in their compositions, Olschbaur’s works do not rely on a singular narrative but rather on nonlinear time, developing from an ongoing process centered in disorder and intuition.
