In this episode Steph speaks with Katja Novitskova, known for her installations addressing the rapidly developing planet, its dataflows, and the effects of human industrial expansion on the environment.
Beginning her studies in semiotics, new media and graphic design before somewhat unintentionally finding her way into the art world, Katja became associated with the so-called post-internet art scene of the mid-to-late 2000s, that defined a generation of artists informed by the online aesthetics, practices and culture of the time.
Katja’s work has long since moved on from that era’s obsessions with the image and its circulation—exemplified by her long-running ‘Approximations’ series of aluminium cutouts of stock animal photography—to a more recent run of exhibitions at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn in 2018 and Whitechapel Gallery in 2019. Concluding with her 'Invasion Curves' installation for Preis der Nationalgalerie at Berlin’s Hamburger Banhof that same year, her practice these days delves into the urgent concerns around the Anthropocene.
