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The Frequency Collection
2024

This triptych fluctuates in its ways of display be it as a free standing sculpture or against the wall. I want to create immersive experiences that conjure up thoughts about image making, what it is and what it can be.

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Sky Walker

Acrylic on raw canvas 80 x 100 cm
My paintings have an ‘in process’ energy. Sky Walker clearly shows how it's been created from both the front and backside of the canvas. The double-sided technique helps build multiple layers of spacial depth and adds to the over all energy and complexity of the image.
“More and more people behave as if they ignore Nature, dislike it, or even despise it. We wouldn’t have the ecological catastrophe in which we live if it were otherwise. …
On the symbolic level, it’s absolutely true that we’ve lost interest in our nomadic planet. The most advanced research in the world nowadays concerns either the infinitely small (the field of the atom) or astronomy. Mankind is already exploring the sustainability of life on other planets… technology is totally at the service of abstract science and its involvement with non-imaginable matters. Planet Earth is old news. It’s the house we are discarding. We definitely don’t love her. We almost believe we don’t need her. Because the price for the love that will save her would reach an almost impossible level. It would require that we change radically our ways of life, that we give up many of our comforts, our toys, our gadgets, and above all our political and religious mythologies. We would have to create a new world (not a Brave New World!). We’re not ready to do all that.”
*Quote from Etel Adnan’s ’The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay’

Migrations

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Migrations 〰️

The way I see it, everything is constantly in flux. And migrating from one form to another, from one layer of evolution to the other. I feel the same way about time. The most constant thing I experience in life and in the creative process is change.

- Bibi Katholm

Migrations

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Migrations 〰️

Energy Field - studio view
On the wall
Paintings as sculpture
Parallax
Floor Installation
backs and fronts
Double Vision
April Sun
Moon Cycles & Private Energy
Up fast slow fast
Floor Installation 2
Shield & Atlas
Atlantic & Koordinates
Floor Installation

When I’m alone in nature and I experience the rupture of inspiration or just catch a

glimpse of something that is in the process of transformation right in front of my

eyes, I always feel this immediate urge to grab it and hold on to it with everything I’ve

got… Remember it for just long enough so I can take the raw, unshaped experience

of it and turn it into an image… Nature´s gift is at the same time generously open

and demanding. In order to understand something, the answer to a question you’ve

constructed in your mind, you have to first ask the next question and throw that into

the wind as your contribution to evolution, and then Nature will answer.

Ghost Hunting in Broad Daylight

”The infinite acceleration of the world with respect to the mind is the feeling of being definitively cut off from the sense of the world. Sense isn’t found in the world, but in what we are able to create. What circulates in the sphere of friendship, of love, of social solidarity is what allows us to find sense. Depression can be defined as a lack of sense, as an inability to find sense through action, through communication, through life. The inability to find sense is first of all the inability to create it…. ”

– Franco ’Bifo’ Berardi : After the Future, p. 64

FUTURE RITUALS

THE ALL-OVER NOW

The Body Breaks
Untitled
This begins, this ends
Untitled 1
New forms of Transcendence
Future Past Time
Breathe till I evaporate
Channeling Gravity
Untitled 2
Imprint Pattern
Imprint

Alternative Horizons

My landscape references are always more connected to the natural world than that of civilisation and architecture. They are inner as well as outer sensations and experiences. They are as much about time, memory energy and sensations as they are about spacial environments.

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IN CASE WE DON’T DIE

‘In Case We Don’t Die’ is a series of international exhibitions curated by Bibi Katholm. So far there have been 5 international ICWDD group exhibitions

ICWDD – V, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles C.A. 2013

ICWDD – IV, KPH Volume, Copenhagen 2011.

ICWDD – III, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen 2011.

ICWDD – II, Vegas Gallery, London 2010.

ICWDD – I, Chausseestraße 105, Berlin 2010.

(More exhibition info including list of participating artists below.)

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Lately, there’s been an important ‘shift in scale’ as far as catastrophes go, and the anxiety we picked up on in 2010 with the first ICWDD exhibition and which signified the collective ‘externalized’ fear of the unknown future, while still very much present today seems to have been somehow ‘internalized’ or overruled by less obvious forms of fear, pain, stress and anxiety – a new post-social condition or disorder you might call ‘inner catastrophes’ (read ‘subjective’).

These days we’re all subjected to such vast amounts of information, entertainment and virtual stimuli that we hardly have time to feel our bodies, concentrate on doing our work (concentration = no interruptions before a thought pattern is complete), or come up with new ideas before we have to make our presence known by posting a ’status update’ online. Documenting, sharing or blogging about what we’re doing has become an obsession for most of us. We try to create a perfect online image of our lives that we can use as a shield… against what? and then we hope… we keep our fingers crossed and hope that everyone else out there is just as busy and stressed out as we are, because if they are it’s unlikely that anyone will notice how much we’re actually struggling, and how lonely our struggle is

IN CASE WE DON’T DIE

All shows were curated by artist Bibi Katholm. The London show at Vegas Gallery was co-curated with UK artist Shane Bradford.

Exhibition history:

ICWDD, Chausseestraße 105, Tækker Immobilienverwaltung GmbH, Berlin
Artist line-up: Shane Bradford (UK), John Strutton (UK), Stephen Dunne (UK), Bibi Katholm (DK), Ida Kvetny (DK), Andreas Emenius (DK), Iben Toft Nørgård (DK), Wonderland (DK), Jacob Kirkegaard (DK), Ralph Dorey (UK), Alex Hudson (UK)

ICWDD, Vegas Gallery, London
Artist line-up: John Strutton (UK), Bibi Katholm (DK), Andreas Emenius (DK), Wonderland (DK), Ida Kvetny (DK), Ralph Dorey (UK), Iben Toft Nørgård (DK), Stephen Dunne (UK), Jacob Kirkegaard (DK), Pascal Rousson (CH/FR), Shane Bradford + James Lacey (UK)

ICWDD, Helene Nyborg Contemporary, Copenhagen
Artist line-up: Bibi Katholm (DK), Andreas Emenius (DK), Shane Bradford (UK), Alex Hudson (UK), Pascal Rousson (CH/FR), Ida Kvetny (DK), Peter Rune Christiansen (DK), Jacob Kirkegaard (DK), Ralph Dorey (UK), Stephen Dunne (UK), John Strutton (UK)

ICWDD, KPH Volume, Enghavevej 82, Copenhagen
Artist line-up: Kasper Sonne (DK), Bibi Katholm (DK), Nick Jeffrey (UK), John Strutton (UK), Ida Kvetny (DK), Pascal Rousson (CH/FR), Shane Bradford (UK), Thomas Øvlisen (DK), Alex Hudson (UK), Astrid Myntekær (DK), Alan Ruiz (US), Andreas Emenius (DK), Ralph Dorey (UK)

ICWDD, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles CA
Artist line-up: Frohawk Two Feathers (US), Bibi Katholm (DK), Mamma Andersson (SE), Devin Troy Strother (US), Paco Pomet (ES), Mie Olise (DK), Ida Kvetny (DK), Monique Prieto (US), Christine Gray (US), Andreas Emenius (SE), Chris Natrop (US), Per Hüttner (SE), Troels Carlsen (DK), Jacob Kirkegaard (DK), Theis Wendt (DK), Mai Hofstad Gunnes (NO), Asger Carlsen (DK)

Push The Sky Away

“Katholm cuts and manipulates her materials, juxtaposing fabrics and paints creating a visual association – not unlike a film editor creating a montage. As much as Katholm’s work is painting, it is also very much about painting and the process of image-making itself.

… Fragments are re-cycled and re-invented to create living images that are invariably subject to change, as in nature.”

- curator Alex White