Katharina Kaminski is a Paris based artist born in Uruguay in 1994. Kaminski works in sculptures and installations, approaching her creative practice as an exploration of the intersection between her  inner and bodily self. 

The body and the mystery of existence take a central place in Kaminski’s work. To develop her cosmogony, the artist uses a sculptural body language that borders on the strangeness of forms and draws from genres such as surrealism and abstraction. Kaminski sculpts and molds against the norm imposed by reason and logic, inspired only by her intuition, immersing herself in the hidden language of the subconscious. Kaminski works with ceramic, marble, and bronze, varying in scale and form: zoomorphic, amorphous, alien, meteoric. She proposes new -other- ways of looking at the biological, considering the infinite breadth of nature and highlighting interconnection between  the earthly and the ethereal.

Her first solo exhibition ‘Womb’, whose title refers to the female reproductive organ which the artist was not born with, aims to question the limits of fertility, revolving around the myth of creation and the forces of nature that make human beings creators, a theme that has accompanied the artist over the years. ‘Womb’ portraits the artist reclaiming her ability to ‘give life’ and procures to destigmatize the conversation around human intersexuality.

For the ‘Womb’ exhibition, Kaminski uses the element of fire as a medium inside her clay sculptures, giving the fire light a container and a form within the bodies she sculpts. Inspired by sanctuaries and with the intention of creating a sheltered space for emotion, Kaminski’s installation composed with clay, space, sound, silence, light and darkness, resemble the mysticism and sacredness of spiritual rituals and invite a moment of outer and inner contemplation.