> Katarína Dubovská
1989 born in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Lives and works in Leipzig, Germany
2011 – 2018 Diploma of Photography and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB), Leipzig, Germany
2015 Gueststudies at AAAD Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic
2018-2021 Meisterschülerin (postgraduate studies for artists) with Prof. Peggy Buth
2019 Gueststudies at the Department Art and Media (Master of Fine Arts) at Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2018 Lectureship at Leuphana University Lüneburg at Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education
since 2018 Member of Artist Group Law of Life
Awards, grants and residencies
2022 – Shortlist and honorable mention at 8. International Marianne Brandt Award, Chemnitz
2022 – Working grant Neustart Kultur by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 – Working grant by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2021 – Working grant Neustart Kultur by Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2020 – Working grant Denkzeit by Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2019 – Support by Goethe-Institute Slovakia, European Cultural Foundation and Compagnia di San Paolo for Resistance I
2019 – Swiss-European Mobility Programm SEMP and support of the Cusanuswerk for studies at ZHdK, Zürich (CH)
2019 – Residency and Working grant by the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, Germany
2018 – Art Prize 2018, Baustelle Schaustelle – Raum für junge Kunst, Essen/Düsseldorf, Germany
2018 – Residency and Working grant by the State Schleswig-Holstein at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, Lauenburg/Elbe, Germany
seit 2014 – Scholarship of the Cusanuswerk
Solo (S) and group exhibitions (selection), catalogues (C)
2023
– Himmel – Die Entdeckung der Weltordnung. Kunststiftung der DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
– 6 ½ WOCHEN, (S) Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
– Thins That Were Are Things Again, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2022
– NO NO NO. ASPN x She BAM!. Galerie Martinetz, Köln, Germany
– Behind a rainbow. Stadtgalerie Kunsthaus Lauenburg, Lauenburg/Elbe, Germany
– Bouquet. ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
– Don’t know why. 15 Jahre Kunstraum Ortloff. Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany
– Eröffnungsausstellung G2 Schaulager, Collection Hildebrand. G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
2021
– Förder Stipendium. Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
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– Conjunctions. Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany
2020
– M20/Ausstellung der Meisterschüler*innen. A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
– Wip_02: Late Bloom. Bistro 21, Leipzig, Germany
– 5014 / 4010 / 9011. ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
– Verletzbare Subjekte (with Law of Life). ZAK – Centre of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2019
– Genius Loci 7. Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf , Germany
– Resistance I (mit Law of Life). VUNU, Košice, Slovakia
– Resistance II (mit Law of Life). Frappant Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
– Current Residents. Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop, Germany
– Perron-Kunstpreis. Stadtgalerie Frankenthal, Frankenthal, Germany
– chromo-. ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
– Interference. Galerie Stephanie Kelly, Dresden, Germany
2018
– Bilder über Bilder über Bilder über Bilder. (S) Art Prize 2018, Baustelle Schaustelle – Raum für junge Kunst, Essen/Düsseldorf, Germany
– Floating Images of an Object. (S) (C) Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, Lauenburg/Elbe, Germany
– Bilder eines Objektes. (S) ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
– Palmenbingo. ASPN, Leipzig, Germany
– Current Residents. Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, Lauenburg/Elbe, Germany
2017
– Il deserto rosso, Now!. Photographic Collection of the SK Stiftung Kultur of the Sparkasse KölnBonn, Germany
– Unsichere Geschichte. Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
– Contemporary Landscape. Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2016
– Folding Space. (S) Raum.Weisz, Leipzig, Germany
– YP_Young Photographers. Gallery Waidspeicher, Kunstverein Erfurt, Germany
2015
– Screening. National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
– Filling the Box with the World outside the Box. AAAD Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague, Czech Republic
– Off-Biennale Budapest. Hungarian Cultural Centre, Prague, Czech Republic – Budapest, Hungary
2014
– Maybe the Sky is Really Green and We’re Just Colourblind. (S) Raum.Weisz, Leipzig, Germany
– SWAP. Motorenhalle Centre of Contemporary Art, Dresden, Germany
– Kunsthoch 46. raumLABOR, Cusanuswerk Scholarship Show, Braunschweig, Germany
Publications
[response_ability].
Julia Eckert: The Ability to Respond. A Postphotographic Practice and the Agency of Matter.
D21 Kunstraum, Leipzig 2021
UPATEOA_hybrid.
Mira Anneli Naß: Hybride Prozesse einer posthumanistischen Fotografie.
Künstlerhaus Lauenburg 2019
Public Collections
– Kunststiftung DZ BANK, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
– Sammlung Hildebrand, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
– Sammlung des Cusanuswerks, Bonn, Germany
Katarína Dubovská, Benedikt Leonhardt, Adrian Sauer: 5014/ 4010/ 9011
Palmenbingo
Katarína Dubovská, Charlotte Herzig: chromo-
Short break / Katarína Dubovská: Bilder eines Objekts (diploma)

Mixed Media (biodegradable thermoplastic polymer, image fragments, Mixed Media, galvanized iron, Mirror tile), H 16-25 cm / B 15-22 cm / T 14-22 cm, 2022

Mixed Media (biodegradable thermoplastic polymer, image fragments, chain), 7 x 7 x 15 cm, 2022

Photo: Stefan Fischer

Photo: Stefan Fischer

Photo: Sophia Kesting

latex, printing ink, galvanized iron, 94 x 82 x 130 cm, 2018
Photo: Sophia Kesting

latex, printing ink, galvanized iron, 94 x 82 x 130 cm, 2018

Photo: Stefan Fischer

Photo: Stefan Fischer

latex, ink, fluorescent tubes, wire, 113,5 x 82 x 17 cm, 2018

latex, ink, fluorescent tubes, wire, 113,5 x 82 x 17 cm, 2018

fragments of images, washing powder, aluminium, 189 x 117,5 x 4,5 cm, 2019
Photo: Stefan Fischer

digital print, ink, fluorescent tube, wire, ballast units, 234 x 85 x 23 cm, 2018
Photo: Stefan Fischer