Author: Katharina Stumm

Katharina Stumm (*1987 in Munich) studied painting in the classes of Thomas Scheibitz, Pia Fries, Melanie Gilligan and Gregor Hildebrandt at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and graduated in 2019. Stumm further expanded her repertoire with stays abroad at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts 2016 in Nabeul (Tunisia) with a focus on ceramics and at Helwan University 2017 in Cairo with a focus on textiles and weaving. She has had exhibitions in Berlin, Munich, Pilsen, Tokyo, among others. In regular intervals Katharina Stumm shifts her center of life. Sometimes she lives and works in the mega-metropolis of Cairo, gathers impressions from crowded streets and collapsing architecture, and then takes a deep breath in the Algarve. During long walks along the coast, she collects and sorts things out so as to regain her strength for a summer in Berlin, a winter in Barcelona, a few months in Athens, Tokyo or London.

The Sense of movement

From the book “The Sense of movement – When artists Travel” I took the liberty, as a travelling artist myself, to cut out pictures and give them my own touch.

view:point/line

The view through a window always provides a picture. But if you look closely, there are several. You see what is behind the pane, as well as the reflection of what is opposite, the light that shines in different intensities and the shadows that are refracted through the glass.

Discipline;Strength

Discipline;Strength – exhibited in the rooms of the BartumeusArt studio shows a selection of handmade silkscreens. The further manually processed paper follows the disciplined movements of the motif-giving athletes by bending and folding and thereby imitates them. The artist discovered the pictures in an illustrated book on sports gymnastics from the 1960s in the Sowjet […]

Special Editions

A yellow linoleum print on a blue landscape

Once Katharina Stumm has your address in her address book, you are sometimes surprised with a card out of the blue.

Series

In her serial works, Katharina Stumm creates similiar motivs or breaks up larger works into newly assembled smaller works

Schere, Stein, Papier

Katharina Stumm carves new passageways into existing spaces, draws fragile, new walls out of paper. This construction, which was created specifically for the rooms of the Kleine Altstadt Galerie in cooperation with the Outer Circle, twists the space it occupies by destabilizing the orienting dichotomies of above and below, front and back.

Die Welt nun

In a room there is a small room and in the small room there is an even smaller one. You can look and walk through the walls, or take the almost labyrintic path. Photos hang distributed on paper strips that form the walls, for which there seems to be no outside or inside, but which invite you to take a closer look. The world now. Photos taken by Elena Hofmeister during her one-year stay in China hang in the Galerie Au in Munich. Different worlds that Katharina Stumm brings together sensitively.