Katie Holten
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Katie Holten is an Irish
artist
whose artwork focuses on humans' impact on the natural environment.
In 2007 Holten was commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to create Tree Museum, a public artwork celebrating the 2009 centennial of the Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. She has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, which is about four and a half miles long. Each one will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their work. Jim Dwyer, The New York Times
In 2004 Holten was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to develop her practice in New York. In 2002, Holten was awarded €20,000 as the winner of the AIB art awards. Five years after graduating from National College of Art and Design
in Dublin, Holten was chosen to represent Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale
in 2003.
Holten's work is often made from recycled materials, and involves maps
, plants, and various ecological subjects, provoking a dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity
to global warming
. As a society that excludes nature from everyday life, how can today's art engage with the natural landscape
? Katie Holten...is looking for an answer to this question. Noemi Smolik, Artforum
The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Solo exhibition, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Green Platform, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Subversive Spaces, The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Public Art Commission, New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill
, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
(solo)
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
ATLAS of MEMORY, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (solo)
IMPLANT, The Horticultural Society of New York at UBS, New York
Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Luckar, Germany (solo)
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York, USA (solo)
2007
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
, Missouri, USA (solo)
VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Schuermann Berlin, Germany (solo)
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Pforzheim Kunstverein, Germany
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2006
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
, Philadelphia, USA
KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Goettingen Kunstverein, Goettingen, Germany
GRAN BAZAAR, Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2005
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
CREATIVE TIME
, New York, USA
Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA
LMAK Projects, New York, USA
2003
Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
whose artwork focuses on humans' impact on the natural environment.
In 2007 Holten was commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to create Tree Museum, a public artwork celebrating the 2009 centennial of the Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY. She has marked out 100 trees along the Concourse, which is about four and a half miles long. Each one will have a sign that gives a phone number and a code to listen to short recordings of people speaking about the Bronx, their lives and their work. Jim Dwyer, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
In 2004 Holten was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to develop her practice in New York. In 2002, Holten was awarded €20,000 as the winner of the AIB art awards. Five years after graduating from National College of Art and Design
National College of Art and Design
The National College of Art and Design is a national art and design school in Dublin, Ireland.-History:Situated on Thomas Street, the NCAD started as a private drawing school and has become a national institution educating over 1,500 day and evening students as artists, designers and art educators...
in Dublin, Holten was chosen to represent Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
in 2003.
Holten's work is often made from recycled materials, and involves maps
MAPS
Maps is the plural of map, a visual representation of an area.As an acronym, MAPS may refer to:* Mail Abuse Prevention System, an organisation that provides anti-spam support...
, plants, and various ecological subjects, provoking a dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...
to global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
. As a society that excludes nature from everyday life, how can today's art engage with the natural landscape
Natural landscape
A natural landscape is a landscape that is unaffected by human activity. A natural landscape is intact when all living and nonliving elements are free to move and change. The nonliving elements distinguish a natural landscape from a wilderness. A wilderness includes areas within which natural...
? Katie Holten...is looking for an answer to this question. Noemi Smolik, Artforum
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...
Exhibitions
2010The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Solo exhibition, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Green Platform, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Subversive Spaces, The Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Public Art Commission, New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wave Hill
Wave Hill
Wave Hill is an estate and garden in New York.Wave Hill may also refer to:*Kalkaringi, Northern Territory, formerly known as Wave Hill, a township in the Northern Territory of Australia...
, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
The City of New York Department of Parks & Recreation is the department of government of the City of New York responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's...
(solo)
Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
ATLAS of MEMORY, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (solo)
IMPLANT, The Horticultural Society of New York at UBS, New York
Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Luckar, Germany (solo)
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York, USA (solo)
2007
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri.- External links :*...
, Missouri, USA (solo)
VAN HORN, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Schuermann Berlin, Germany (solo)
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Pforzheim Kunstverein, Germany
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2006
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
The Institute of Contemporary Art or ICA is a contemporary art museum located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The museum is associated with the University of Pennsylvania, and is located on its campus. The Institute is one of the country's leading museums dedicated to exhibiting the innovative...
, Philadelphia, USA
KBH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Paris, France
Goettingen Kunstverein, Goettingen, Germany
GRAN BAZAAR, Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2005
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
CREATIVE TIME
Creative Time
Creative Time is a New York-based nonprofit arts organization. It was founded in 1973 to support the creation of innovative, site-specific, socially engaged works in the public realm, especially in vacant spaces of historical and architectural interest...
, New York, USA
Wallspace Gallery, New York, USA
LMAK Projects, New York, USA
2003
Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Italy
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Publications
- Katie Holten, a Van Horn Press book published by Revolver, Germany, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-446-6
- Katie Holten: Paths of Desire, Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisContemporary Art Museum St. LouisThe Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is an art museum for contemporary art, located in St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri.- External links :*...
, Missouri, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9777528-3-6 - GRAN BAZAAR, Tûp Institute and m o s t r a, printed in Mexico City, 2006, ISBN 0-9788046-0-0
- En Upassende Sandhed, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2006, ISBN 87-91409-30-6
- notional, Coracle Press, Clonmel, 2003, ISBN 0-906630-19-3
- Procumbent Notions, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2003, ISBN 7-91409-03-9
- Katie Holten and others: Drawings, Instances, Collaborations + Texts, Tûp Institute and Temple Bar Gallery and StudioTemple Bar Gallery and StudioTemple Bar Gallery + Studios is located in the centre of Temple Bar, which is Dublin's designated cultural quarter. With a key profile and on street presence, the current building is a mid-nineties structure designed by Irish architects McCullough/Mulvin. The building contains one of Ireland's...
, Dublin, 2002, ISBN 1-903895-03-0
External links
- Katie Holten artist's website
- Gasser & Grunert New York gallery
- VAN HORN Düsseldorf, Germany
- Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis solo museum exhibition, 2007
- The New Yorker Talk of the Town piece by Ian Frazier, 2009
- ARTFORUM Review of solo exhibition, 2010