Katrin Gattinger: Plan B is the first published study on the artist's work. Published in August 2025 by La Lettre volée (collection "Essaie", Brussels), it includes an introduction by Anna Guilló, critical texts by Chris Younès, Véronique Brière, Séverine Cauchy, and Chiara Palermo, as well as notes on the works written by the artist.
136 pages, 25 four-color illustrations
15 x 21 cm; paperback, French text
ISBN 978-2-87317-652-5 €19.00
This critical essay is the second volume of ARTS et RUSES, ANIMAUX et MILIEUX, an interdisciplinary collective work edited by Sandrine Israel-Jost and Katrin Gattinger with contributions in art, philosophy, ethology, and geography that focus on the responses—adaptive or resistant, cunning or resigned—that animals offer to artificial or constrained environments. This approach questions human responsibility with regard to ethical requirements and the vital necessity of interspecies cohabitation, but also provides avenues for inventing it.
(2023)
in Cryogénie – Research-creation space, University of Strasbourg. It is through the practice of tracking – wild animals in forest and rural areas, but also injunctions hidden in street furniture – that Katrin Gattinger develops her recent projects and research, of which she shows with Plan B an inventory of proposals in Cryogenics. – Space for research-creation. Combining animal gestures (which create significant forms of territorial marking) with forms and materials (which construct the urban environment), these projects invite us to think about the place of wild, liminal animals in the city. They create fictions, ways of taking a place, of adapting, of “dealing with” and of finding solutions, like so many ways out in the face of constraints. Scratching, digging, licking concrete and bitumen, distorting the defensive and anti-homeless design are sculptural gestures. They summon an imaginary of impertinence and insolence in the face of commandments inscribed in forms and invite us to think about our room for maneuver in a controlled environment. Scenography: Thomas Lasbouygues. Mediation: Amandine Mussel, Quentin Mervelet, Rose Defer. Production: Cryogénie - Research-creation space, University of Strasbourg, ACCRA, Région Grand Est.
(2022)
Personal exhibition at Les Abords in Brest (France) from 7 March to 1 April 2022, following a research-creation residency at the University of Western Brittany (UBO) and the European University Institute of the Sea (IUEM).
The exhibition shows the first projects relating to Katrin Gattinger's research on tricks: between stratagems of the living environment, visual traps and sound lures, it is the Alsatian wildlife milieu that is summoned to play the surprise.
Two monumental works, on the one hand a 32m long photographic frieze of a nocturnal landscape where many presences escape ("Then leave") and on the other hand a vast interactive installation sound-images, made in collaboration with the composer Arno Kristensen, who reverses the game of glances ("Being the Barbarian of a wolf"), are at the heart of this exhibition.
The exhibition shows the first projects relating to Katrin Gattinger's research on tricks: between stratagems of the living environment, visual traps and sound lures, it is the Alsatian wildlife milieu that is summoned to play the surprise.
Two monumental works, on the one hand a 32m long photographic frieze of a nocturnal landscape where many presences escape ("Then leave") and on the other hand a vast interactive installation sound-images, made in collaboration with the composer Arno Kristensen, who reverses the game of glances ("Being the Barbarian of a wolf"), are at the heart of this exhibition.
(2019)
L'Atelier, Aix-Marseille University (on the occasion of the empowerment to lead research in the arts)
Rosa Brux, Brussels. Performances.
(Curator : Laurence Schmidlin)
Within the framework of an artistic residence at Rosa Brux.
(Curator : Laurence Schmidlin)
Within the framework of an artistic residence at Rosa Brux.
(2011)
Centre d’art Langage Plus, Alma, Québec.
As part of the program "Residence croisées Alsace/Québec" (Fonds Régional d'art contemporain d'Alsace, Centre européen d'action artistique contemporaine).
See catalog Embûches.
As part of the program "Residence croisées Alsace/Québec" (Fonds Régional d'art contemporain d'Alsace, Centre européen d'action artistique contemporaine).
See catalog Embûches.
(2011)
(curator Séverine Duhamel), Galerie Duchamp, Centre d'art contemporain d'Yvetot, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, march 11 to april 2011, (catalog with text by Anna Guillo, 2013; english translation availible).
(2003)
Within the exhibition programme of 24 jours, APPA, cérap, salle Michel Journiac, UFR Arts Plastiques, Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, campus universitaire, Fontenay-aux-Roses (catalogue CD-Rom épuisé)
(2003)
(with Kristina Depaulis, Yvan Le Bozec), Jardin d’Hélys, St Médard D’Excideuil, ADDC Arts plastiques, Dordogne.