Katja Novitskova

Approximation I, Win Win (back), both 2012
exhibition view from MACRO EXPANSION, on view at Kraupa-Tuskany, Berlin

The Cambrian Explosion 001, 2012
digital print on papyrus, aluminum frame

Geometria MMXII, 2012
digital print on acacia wood, TV screen holder

Approximation I, 2012
digital print on aluminum, cutout display

Apical Dominance 2, 2012
tree weights stands, digital collage on fabric

Installation view from The Still Life of Vernacular Agents, curated by NADINE ZEIDLER
at Kraupa-Tuskany gallery, Berlin, 2012

Process Watch, 2012
digital print, display frame, 851mm x 1200 mm

Skins, tent cover, tent sticks, digital prints on fabric, cardboard boxes, 2011
exhibition view at b-galleria, Turku, Finland

KATJA NOVITSKOVE and TIMUR SI-QIN
installation view at the Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, spring 2012

Innate Disposition, 2012
digital print plastic cutout displays

Innate Disposition, 2012
digital print plastic cutout displays

KATJA NOVITSKOVA and TIMUR SI-QIN’s exhibition x DIS Magazine. These images are a continuation of DIS’s exploration into new ways of documenting art, view more here

all images courtesy the artist, unless stated otherwise

If you have heard about Post-internet Survival Guide (2010), a self-published book, an installation, a series of events and exhibitions in response to the ‘post-internet’ art phenomenon, then you know KATJA NOVITSKOVA, the Estonia-born artist who initiated the project.

Her work emphasizes the nature of the synthetic, focusing on the materiality of globalized and networked society, often framed in a way which connect the worlds of advertising, consumerism, history and nature.

Post-internet Survival Guide looked at the trends and popular shapes among young artists and the internet that particular year and the things people have been using, like the Ipad and Iphone. I looked at it in relation to the narrative in human evolution – like from when we were half-monkeys till now – basically, how this evolution is driven by what is trending and what is cool. With each new project I go back in history, to the basics. I’m looking into how advertisement is related to nature and evolutionary technology and getting into the root of the problem. If you think about success and trends in forms, it automatically brings you to these timespans of evolution where certain shapes get developed, like why humans have a preference for symmetry and how symmetry is used in imagery. Also how silkworms are taking shape and how they are reappropriated all over again in all kinds of scenarios especially in art and advertising and social networking – KATJA NOVITSKOVA in conversation with SUSANNA DAVIES-CROOK 

And good news:  MACRO EXPANSION (above: the four first images) is currently on view at Kraupa-Tuskany in Berlin until January 12, 2013



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