Installation, Painting, Drawing | Graphic Art
Katja Davar
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Katja Davar – born 1968 in London, UK, lives and works in Cologne and Mainz. She studied at Central Saint Martins School of Art, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and Kunsthochschule für Medien Cologne. Katja Davar’s work focuses on systems and processes. Drawing is the indisputable core of her practice, although she regularly expands the field of drawing into further dimensions. Her institutional solo exhibitions include: Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Kolkata (2023), Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (2022), Kunstverein Heilbronn (2021), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (2020).
Institutional group exhibitions include: Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal (2026), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (2025), Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr (2024), Kunsthaus NRW Aachen – Kornelimünster (2024), Tabakalera, San Sebastián (2021), Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (2020).
©Portrait: Albrecht Fuchs
©Werkfoto: Simon Vogel
Connection to Rhineland-Palatinate
Katja Davar has realized several public art projects. In 2024 she won the competition for the design of the U-Bahn station Pilgramgasse in Vienna (implementation planned for 2029–30) with a work focusing on changing migratory bird routes due to climate change. This work includes extensive research on wetlands in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 2012 Katja Davar has been teaching experimental drawing at Hochschule Mainz.