Katja Toporski is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice moves between sculpture, installation, adornment, and video projection. She investigates the human experience, including how historical events are felt by ordinary individuals, their effects on collective memories, how guilt and trauma of life under a totalitarian system perpetuate through generations.
She spent her time in the Studio Program Art Residency at BERLIN ART INSTITUTE observing the city and its history. Collecting sounds recordings from trains and trams, short video clips and photos from old industrial sites and the apartment buildings of her mother’s childhood, 3D scans of the ubiquitous stacks of bricks and the deep stairwell to the Gesundbrunnen Underground station with its green tiles, a picture began to emerge- every aspect of the city’s history and its future is presented as one giant picture, like memory, shrinking and expanding time. (Text courtesy of the artist).
More information about Katja Toporski ’s work can be found on her Website.
