Katharina Blanke

My works are utopian and poetic portrayals and constructions of dresses. I analyse existing dress illustrations and garments, decompose and re-stage them as newly interpreted vestment objects. As examples of clothing architecture and textile sculpture, like the hollow shell of garment, the portrayal of the robe becomes a personified object. Its wearability is deliberately left behind. The functional article of daily use thus becomes a self-sufficient piece of art, the clothing`s construction is utilized as a means of communication for the wearer's identity - a personalized world of memory, concentrated and told through the collage of garments. Private mythology, fashion genre history, natural history and autobiography add up to form these textile sculptures.

"žI construct the dresses of my dreams, fantasy frameworks. The dress, which acts as a second layer of skin and identity is removed and placed beside me as a sculptural object. This textile shell is a direct concern, a subtle collage of my ideas of sensual dressing and disguise, that reflects my desires, my yearning and my environment."

As a viewer, you see opulent material bacchanalia, assembled in meticulously detailed work. Complex, artistically woven filigree networks...

-1997-1999 Study of Industrial Design /  School of Art, Berlin-Weissensee  
-1999 Prediploma of Industrial Design /  School of Art, Berlin-Weissensee
-1999-2000 Study of Industrial Design / University of the Arts / Berlin / Germany
-2000–2003 Study of Graphic Design / School of Art / Basel / Switzerland
-2003 Diploma of Graphic Design  /  Visual Communication /   School of Art / Basel

-2013 Groupshow / Project / GalleryStockholmBerlin is a project by DDB Stockholm and Lufthansa Sweden with the participating artists Diana Artus, Katharina Blanke, Stefan Guzy & BjörnWiede and Staffan Larsson curated by Hannah Beck-Mannagetta
-2013 Design / CI for Koch&Friends properties
-Since 2012 Design / drafts and conception of an own cloth,-and scarf-collection
-2012 Groupshow / The Final Metro / Metro Gallery Berlin
-2012 Illustration-,and artproject/Design+Design012 / Kunsthaus / Zurich / Basle
-2012 Design / sketch and realisation of print motifs for two scarf-,and shirt-collections for the Porsche-Design-Group
-2012 Solo Show / Katharina Blanke /Berlin-Weekly  / Berlin
-2012 Illustrationproject / Shirt-Design / Katharina Blanke for Des Artistes
-2012 Groupshow / The illegale museum / curated by Tom Biber / Berlin
-2012 Solo Show / Katharina Blanke /Gallery forma-t  / Berlin
-2011 Illustration,- artproject/ Design+Design011 /  Kunsthaus / Zurich
-2011 Group Show/ Auction / FITAX1500 / Tupajumi Foundation / Rotterdam, Berlin
-2011 Group Show /  Tape Modern No.19 /Berlin
-2010 Solo Show / Katharina Blanke /Panzerfalte/Kosmetiksalon Babette / Berlin
-2010 Illustration Project/ Design+Design010 /  Museum für G...