Un autre commencement

Name: Un autre commencement - Katinka Bock
Brand: Keijiban
Price: 300.000000 EUR
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Katinka Bock

2026

Copper and magnets

#1 to #8: 13 x 3 cm 〜 28 x 11 cm / #9 to #12: 33 x 20 cm 〜 48 x 23 cm / #13 to #17: 68 x 6 cm 〜 70 x 20 cm / Thickness: 4 mm (all pieces)

Series of 17 pieces
Each comes in a edition of 3 copies, signed and numbered by the artist on a certificate, plus 2 artist’s proofs

Price: #1 to #8: 300 € / #9 to #12: 500 € / #13 to #17: 700 €

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The edition

Katinka Bock’s new project for Keijiban unfolds as a group of seventeen elements in varied formats and contours, all cut from a single sheet of copper. This shared origin inscribes the work within a logic of unity and fragmentation: each piece is autonomous, yet remains bound to an initial whole. Placed side by side, these forms evoke the components of a model waiting to be assembled, conjuring both the playful, almost childlike desire associated with construction games and a kind of instinctive apprehension in the face of their sharp edges, tapered points, blade-like motifs, and the nearly cutting crispness of exposed metal.

Initially conceived as the silhouettes or cast shadows of certain sculptures typical of the artist’s practice, these cut-outs form a kind of condensed repertoire. Torn from three-dimensionality, they retain its memory. Their simultaneously lacunar and suggestive quality operates as a system of signs: one might think of a possible alphabet, a hieroglyphic writing poised between image and language.

The meticulously cut character of these shapes also recalls Matisse’s practice of paper cut-outs, emblematic of a certain modernism in which the line emerges through the gesture of subtraction. Here, Katinka Bock extends that tradition by shifting it into the sculptural field and toward a denser materiality: copper, with its warm hue and its capacity to transform over time, introduces an organic and temporal dimension. By employing contemporary metal laser-cutting technologies, the artist combines industrial precision with material and formal sensitivity. The work thus exists in a tension between delicacy and threat, between the memory of the hand’s gesture and the potential of technology—a tension that runs throughout her practice and constitutes one of its major poetic strengths.

The artist

Katinka Bock カティンカ・ボック — Photo by Jean-Noël Ledoux

Katinka Bock was born in 1976 in Frankfurt, and currently lives in Paris.

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Katinka Bock has used materials such as leather, wood, stone, fabric, ceramics, and found objects to explore the physical, temporal, and mental outlines of spaces. Her practice is located at the intersection of sculpture and installation. The inner properties of the shaped materials are as important as their relation to the environment in which they are displayed; their physical presence is inseparable from their capacity to define or challenge a space.

In the wake of post-minimalism and arte povera, Katinka Bock applies simple gestures and processes (such as folding, wrapping, molding, and imprinting) to the materials to produce artworks that bear witness to the passage of time, the interaction between body and matter, a precious and precarious balance. The artist also uses the medium of photography, which she considers as existing at the “periphery” of her practice, as a tool for extending her artistic investigation through a close, familiar point of view. Just as her three-dimensional works embody a certain fluidity or indeterminacy, her photographs often express an apparition, the emergence of a phenomenon, the beauty of serendipity.

In 2019, Katinka Bock was among the artists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize. She was artist-in-residence at the Villa Medici in Rome (2012-13) and received the 14th Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize in France and the Dorothea von Stetten Prize in Germany (2012).

Recent solo shows include Common People, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium, 2022; Katinka Bock, Cahn Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland, 2022; Katinka Bock, 303 Gallery, New York, USA, 2021; Logbook, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, 2021; Rauschen, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 2020.

Katinka Bock is represented by Meyer Riegger (Berlin, Karlsruhe, Basel), Galerie Greta Meert (Brussels), 303 Gallery (New York), and Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris).

The exhibition

Katinka Bock's exhibition took place at Keijiban from February 15 to March 14, 2026.

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Un autre commencement

Katinka Bock

2026