Through her multidisciplinary practice, encompassing sculpture, installation, video, and performance, Bronwyn Katz reflects on place or space as lived experience, examining how land holds and communicates the memory of its past occupation.
Using found natural materials like iron ore, alongside repurposed man-made objects such as foam mattresses and bed springs, Katz's process is guided by storytelling and intuition. Her sculptures conceptually engage with the political circumstances of their creation, embodying acts of resistance that highlight the social constructs and boundaries that shape our environments. For Katz, abstraction serves as a counterpoint to direct representation, offering her work a space for multiple interpretations. Her minimalism engages with early abstract art forms, drawing on traditional methods of mark-making and storytelling that precede Western modernism.
Bronwyn Katz (b. 1993, South Africa) earned her BA in Fine Art with Honours from the University of Cape Town in 2015. Katz has had several notable solo exhibitions, including at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2023), White Cube, London (2021), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018). Her work has also been featured in prominent group exhibitions and institutional shows, such as Griffith University Art Museum in Brisbane in 2021, The Milk of Dreams at the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022, Bard Graduate Center in New York in 2023. Katz has exhibited widely across North and South America, Europe, the UK, and Australia, gaining international recognition for her contributions to the contemporary art scene.
