Venue:MdbK - Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstraße 10
04109 Leipzig
mdbk.de>>> Curator tour and artist talk with Philipp Freytag and Katharina Schreiter (free of charge, no registration required)
In her most recent work, Katharina Schreiter (*1984 Dresden) takes the architecture of the MdbK as the starting point for photographic self-staging. The focus is on the physical experience of the interior space, the materials used in it and its considerable dimensions. Using collage, the artist combines her own black and white photographs of the rooms with performative self-portraits charged with brightly coloured props.
Three of the five motifs have been on display as large-format banners on the façade of the MdbK since spring 2025. There, they fulfil the function of the eponymous membrane - a delicate, thin skin that simultaneously serves as a separating and connecting layer between the interior and exterior spaces. Two further photographs enter into a dialogue with the MdbK's permanent exhibition.
Katharina Schreiter completed her studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Tina Bara's Photography and Moving Image class in 2022. The artist's book Meta K., based on her diploma thesis of the same name, was published in 2021. In 2024 she was included in the group exhibition Win/Win. The Acquisitions of the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony at Museum Gunzenhauser (Chemnitz). Katharina Schreiter is currently completing her master student work with Joachim Blank. With the group of works entitled Membran, she combines the two-dimensional medium of photography with aspects of spatiality.
On the occasion of the project, a signed and numbered edition with all five motifs of the series Membran in the format 40 x 30 cm will be published in a limited edition of six copies (+ 1 artist proof) in a handmade cassette. The edition is available for 950€ at MdbK.
