b. 1983 in Lake Constance, Austria; currently lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Katherina Olschbaur uses the body as a site of repressed desire to illuminate her own narratives regarding gender, power and sexuality, revealing a new understanding of female body language that questions, disrupts and dismantles the stereotypes and prejudices perpetuated by society’s ongoing expectations on women. Olschbaur graduated from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Recent exhibitions include Katherina Olschbaur: Tortured Ecstasies, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles (2020, solo); Dirty Elements, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA (2020, solo); Hollywood Babylon, Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, Autre Magazine, Los Angeles, CA (2020); LA on Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2019) Trans World, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA/ Bucharest, Romania (2019); The Divine Hermaphrodite, GNYP Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2019, solo); Horses, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2018, solo); SEED, curated by Yvonne Force Villareal, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (2018); A Painters Table, Symposium on Painting and Change, organized with Bianca Regl, Blackbridge OFF Space, Beijing, China (2017); Haunted by Strokes, Galerie Werkstadt Graz, Austria (2016, solo), Wicked Walls, Museum on Demand, Vienna (Solo 2011). Her work was featured in group shows in institutions such as Museum Gironcoli (AT) Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Kunsthalle Krems (AT).
