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Loher, Katja

KATJA LOHER

1979

2000 – 2001
2001 – 2004

2004
Since 2004

Born in Zurich
ESBA, Fine Art Academy Geneva
FHBB HGK, Fine Art Academy Basel
Diploma Dept. of Art and Media Art, Art Academy Basel, FHBB HGK Lives and works in New York

Awards & Grants

2013 RDA Grant, Videoplanet-Orchestra, Figge Art Museum
2010 Art Credit Award, Basel-Stadt
2009 Artist in Residence, 6 month Beijing, China. iaab: International Exchange & Studio

Program, Basel
2008 ValiART- Award by Valiant, Bern

Audiovision and Multimedia Grant, Canton Basel

Artist in Residence, 6 month Berlin, Germany, Cultural Department Schaffhausen 2007 0-1 Artist Visa, Artist in Residence, New York
2006 Alexander Clavel Foundation Cultural Development Prize, Riehen, Basel

Artist in Residence, 6 month New York, iaab: International Exchange & Studio Program

Basel
2004 TPC CreaTVty Award for new media, TPC Production Center Zurich

Art Credit Award, Basel-Stadt

Collections

21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Credit Suisse Collection, Geneva, Switzerland
eN Arts Collection, Tokyo, Japan
GC. AC - Galleria Comunale d‘Arte Contemporanea of Monfalcone, Italy
Sara Lahat Private Collection, Herzliya, Israel
Horsecross Collection, Permanent Collection of Digital Art, Perth, UK
Private Collections in Belgium, Brazil, Guatemala, Israel, Germany, Italy, Russia, Switzerland and USA

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Videoplanet-Orchestra, Figge Museum, Iowa, USA Bangbang, C24 Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Lourdina Jean Rabieh, Sao Paulo

2013 How Blue Can Smoke Be?, C-Space, Beijing, China
Vip Lounge, Texas Contemporary, in collaboration with MaRS Who Collects Clouds in the Sky?, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA Miniversum, Museum Uri, Switzerland
Did the Moon…?, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

Interplanetary Kisses, LOT, Land of Tomorrow, Louisville, Kentucky
2012 Interplanetary Constellations, MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2011 Miniverse #1, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, Italy

Multiverse, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA
Why Did the Bees Leave?, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, USA Where was Green Born?, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Why Did the Bees Leave?, Vernon Project, Prague, Czech Republic

2010 Sculpting in Air, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland 2009 Katja Loher: Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno, Italy

Sculpting in Time, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA 2008 A.I.R. ONE, Substitut, Berlin, Germany
2007 Scène2, Senones, France

Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland 2006 Forum Vebikus, Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Dublin Fringe 2006, Dublin, Ireland

The Artist Network Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Love.com, The State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

Switzerland Festival Rose D’Or, KKL Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014 Cool stories for when the planet gets hot IV
2013 Around the Table, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA

Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca, Mexico City, Mexico Nature’s Toolbox, The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Nature’s Toolbox, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA

2012 Nature’s Toolbox, The Field Museum, Chicago, USA Augmentations, Municipality Gallery Netanya, Israel

2011 Dialogicos, Lourdina Jean Rabieh Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil Photography as Object, Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, USA

2010 NETinSPACE MAXXI, National Museum of the Arts of the XXIst Century, Rome, Italy Biennale di Venezia - 12th International Architecture, Arsenal Nord, Venice, Italy United Nations Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo, Shanghai, China
New Sculptural Media, Armory Center for the Arts, LA, USA

Porsche Center, Padova, Italy
2009 Post Dimension - A Journey in the Contemporary Art, Torrione Passari, Bari, Italy

Siggraph Asia 2009, Yokohama, Japan
TINA B, Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic Modern Art Gallery Taichung / Found Museum, Beijing, China Biennale Chongqing, Chongqing, China
Dialogue of the Generations, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland

2008 SUMMERTIME 08, Galleri Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark Primacy, Threshold Art Space, Perth, UK

Art Is My Playground, Tershane, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 New York City Panorama, Flux Factory, New York, USA

Biennale Parallel, Tershane Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 798/Dashanzi Art Festival, Beijing, China
NO1 Artbase, 798 Area, Beijing, China
Forum & Elzbieta Koscielak Gallery, Lesnica Castle, Zamek, Poland

2006 Iaab Choices, Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland
Alexander Clavel Fundation Prize, Villa Wenkenhof, Basel, Switzerland

2005 Art Digital 2005, M’ARS Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

Selected Art Fairs

2013 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, with Anya Tish, Houston Pulse New York/Miami, with C24 Gallery
Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, with C24 Gallery, New York

2012 Impulse, Pulse Miami, Solo booth, with Scaramouche Gallery, New York Houston Art Fair, Solo booth, with Anya Tish Gallery, Houston

2011 Loop Barcelona 10, with Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
Roma Contemporary Art Fair, Out of Range Section, with Tiziana di Caro, Salerno Art Stage Singapore, Solo booth, with Galerie Vernon, Prague

2010 Kunst 10 Zürich, Solo booth, with Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich
Artissima 17 International, Fair of Contemporary Art in Torino, with Tiziana di Caro, Salerno
VOLTA Basel, Lightbox, Solo booth, with Vernon Gallery, Prague

2009 Art Verona on Stage, Solo booth, with Galleria Tiziana di Caro, Salerno 2008 Art 39 Basel, with Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel
2007 Istanbul Contemporary Art Fair, with Tershane Gallery, Istanbul
2006 Diva Digital & Video Art Fair, New York, with theartistnetwork, New York

Publications

Galerie Andres Thalmann: Katja Loher - Will the Moon…?, Solo catalog, Zurich 2013. Constelações Interplanetárias / Interplanetary Constellations, Solo catalog,, MuBE, 2012 Galerie Andres Thalmann: Katja Loher - Sculpting in Air, Solo catalog, Zurich, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-9523571-6-3

Vernon Fine Art International: TINA B 2011, Group Catalog, Prague, 2010
Siggraph Asia 2009: Digital experiences, Siggraph Asia Art Gallery 2009, Group Catalogue, Yokohama, 2009
Biennale Chongqing 2009: Your Discourse, Group Catalogue, Chongqing, 2009

Peter Stohler: TOMOGRAPH, Interviews with artists, Book, Arnoldsche Art Publisher, Stuttgart, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-89790-309-8
Tershane Gallery: Art Is My Playground, Group Catalogue, Istanbul, 2008
Flux Factory: New York City Panorama, Group Catalogue, New York, 2007

The Artist Network: 798/Dashanzi Art Festival, Group Catalogue, Beijing, 2007
Tershane Gallery: Biennale Parallel, Group Catalogue, Istanbul, 2007
M’ARS Centre of Contemporary Arts Moscow: Art Digital 2005 Moscow, Digitalized Love, Group Catalogue, Moscow, 2005

Selected Press

Bahram Safinia, Gallery Log: Interview, featuring artists at Volta NY.
Karen Garratt: Tiny Microcosms Of Humanity Spark With Aggressive Beauty. Artlyst, London, 26/09/2013
Alice Henkes: Zeitgenössische Kunst in der Provinz. Reflexe-Sendung, Radio SRF, Kultur. Switzerland, 04/09/2013
Doris Marty:Videokünstlerin komponiert Zauberwelten.UW, Uri, Switzerland, 09/03/2013 Miniversum: Katja Loher udn Peter Saurerer. NZZ am Sonntag. Zurich, Switzerland, 03/10/2013 Irmgard Berner: Mini-Universen. Kunst:Art, Switzerland, März/April 2013
Markus Zwyssig: Uri Zeigt Videowelten. Urner Zeitung, Uri, Switzerland. 08/03/2013
Fergs Heinzelmann: Interplanetary Constellations. In: The Creators Project, Sao Paolo, 08/14/2012
Silvia Sokalski: Four Young, Successful Swiss Artists In: Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich 05/26/2012 Katja Loher: La imaginación y la realidad no son tan incompatibles. In: Roconoce MX, Mexiko, 12/2011
Eugenio Viola: Katja Loher, Galleria Tiziana di Caro. In: Flash Art, #298, Italy, 12/2011/01/2012 Antonello Tolve: Gli Universi di Katja Loher. In: Artribune, Italy, 10/03/2011
George Alexander: Katja Loher’s Table. In: My Table, Sidedish, Houston, 11/08/2011
Shellene Cockrell: Katja Loher’s Miniverse. At: GOCO Gocolorado, TV, 09/2011
Nancy Wozny: Dancing the alphabet. In: CultureMap, Houston, 11/25/2011
Douglas Britt: Supper for two and Multiverse. In: Houston Chronicle, Houston, 12/05/2011 Kelly Klaasmeyer: “Katja Loher: Multiverse” at Anya Tish. In: Houston Press, 10/25/2011
Czech Position.com: Abstract street video takes off on plight of bees, Prague, 05/09/2011 Pietro Gasparri & Gianna Fabbrizi: DispenserTV, Interview with the Artist, Milan. 04/2011
Jade Dressler and Paul Clemence: Play at Salone 2011. In: Metropolis P/O/V, Milan, 04/18/2011 Nicoletta Pennati: Un‘isola verde nel quartiere Isola. In: Donna Moderna, Milan, 04/2011
Lea Vene & Maya Kashevitz: Axiology Aunts. In: WordPress.com, Tel Aviv, 04/26/2011
Daniel Morgenthaler: And now: Solo!. In: ZÜRITIPP, Tagesanzeiger, Arts, Zurich, 11/15/2010 Christian Fluri: The Chase Is On. In: Basellandschaftliche Zeitung. Basel, 06/2010
Giulia Simi: Videosculptures/Videoplanets. In: Digimag #57, Milan, 09/2010
Roberta Bosco, El MAXXI sitúa a Roma en el arte contemporáneo. In: El Pais, Madrid, 07/24/2010
Antonello Tolve: MAXXI, Dietro e dentro… In: TeKnemedia, ARTKEY Magazine, Torino, 06/03/2010

Kelly Crow: Rome Turns to the Art of Today. In: The Wall Street Journal Europe, New York, 05/05/2010
Yida He: Katja Loher’s Videoplanets. In: VISION, International Art, Design and Architecture, Beijing, 04/2010

BIT, Brooklyn Independent Television, Neighborhood Beat, featured artist, New York, 02/2009 Robert Elmes: Art Primer, YRB JUMP OFF, June issue, New York, 06/2008
Yonina Chan: Verses, Universes, Inverses. In: Imagine, Manila Bulletin, 10/2008
Robin Blanck: Aufbruch am Ende von Raum und Zeit. In: Schaffhauser Nachrichten, 07/05/2008 Alison Anderson: High art suspended over Concert Hall, In: Perthshire Advertiser, Perth, 05/16/2008

Peter Stohler: Katja Loher: Schachfeld. In: Les Jeux sont faits, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, 05/2007
Dietrich Roeschmann: Katja Loher: The world as a game. In: Regioartline, Art Magazine, Basel, 06/15/2007

Denise Langenegger: Interwiew, DRS1 Radio, National Broadcast Switzerland, New York, 03/2006
Alfred Wüger, Between the Sun and the Oranges, Schaffhauser Nachrichten, 11/2006
Peter Pfister: Honey sucking helicopters and airy dreams, AZ Schaffhausen, 11/2006 Ann-Katrin Harfensteller: The special look through a peephole Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Basel, 08/2006

Muriel Schlup: Hertz neben Herz. In: Berner Kulturagenda, Nr. 07, Bern, 04/2005
Bea Hauser: Each Video is a Form of Invention. In: AZ Schaffhausen, 03/10/2005
Olga Horoshilova: Katja Loher, Sylvie Rodriquez: Love.com. In: Time out St.Petersburg, 12/2005 Andrei Vorobei: Swiss video installations on show… In: St.Petersburg Times, 12/23/2005