Katarina Head

Katarina Head, based in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, is a British-Estonian contemporary visual artist primarily focused on the medium of painting and combined photographic collage. She began painting during early childhood and remained fascinated with the possibilities that the medium unveiled. After moving to the Netherlands in 2017, for studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2017-2018), she graduated from the the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art), The Hague, Netherlands with a Bachelor degree in Fine Art in 2022.

In connection with her 2022 BFA exhibition, Wandering Limbs, at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, Head gave the following introduction to her work:

The possibilities of exploring organic forms and existences is seemingly never ending, the living world is undeniably complex and the vast majority is still unknown to most of us. This provokes possibilities of creating strange worlds, those hanging onto reality by the thinnest of threads; biomorphic forms allowing one to play with ideas of fantasy and fiction, configurations of complex matter which question our understanding of our own living reality and this natural world which can be so seemingly alien. I thoroughly enjoy using paint in the exploration of surfaces- from fleshy figurative matter morphing into textural earth born material embrace the unpredictable possibilities of an internal gaze; reflected by a process that embraces chance, error, and vulnerability whilst exploring the interconnectivity of structure and identity to our physical surrounding.

Upon graduation Head was awarded the prestigious 2023 Piket Kunstprijzen (for painting) from the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague. In 2023 she was also the recipient of the Amarte Fund: Interdisciplinary - Project grant (in support of artists who work between different disciplines in the fields of theatre, film, music, visual arts and/or literature).

Katarina Head has shown her work in the following group exhibitions and art fairs: Foundation degree show, UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design group exhibition, Canterbury, United Kingdom (2017); Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Basic year 2017-2018) Group exhibition, Vondelbunker, Vondelpark, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2018); 3rd year KABK Fine arts group exhibition, Trixie, The Hague (2021); With/Out, Group exhibition WEST, The Hague (2021); As Is Where Is, Pre-graduation group exhibition, KABK Fine arts Verheeskade 321, The Hague (2021); KABK Graduation show 2022, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague (2022); Best of Graduates 2022, GalerieRon Mandos, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2022); Everything is before now is Everything, The Grey Space in the Middle, Thn Hague (2022); Hybrid Realms, Trixie, The Hague (2023); Amarte Expo, Theater De Krakeling, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2024); Limburg Biënnale 2024, Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands (2024); The Boy And The Moth, CSLAB, Zokei University, Tokyo (2024) and A Room Of Our Own, Loods 6, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2025).

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