born 1983 in Lower Austria, lives and works in Vienna. She was awarded the Mrsg Otto Mauer Prize in 2021. Katrin Hornek studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Katrin Hornek’s works playfully deal with the strange paradoxes and convergences of life in the age of the Anthropocene, the new geological epoch in which the effects of capitalism, colonialism and exploitation are inscribed in the materiality of the earth. – As an artistic strategy, Hornek follows stories and traces of the material world by tracing strands of different discourses (for example of plastic) or transformations of her environment.
