Katrin Zickler lives and works in Dessau. Born in Jena in 1966, the painter is decidedly an artist who works with and from the material; anything faded is foreign to her. Her approach to the world is robust, her treatment of it delicate and confident. Her work always revolves around opposing positions that react to each other: the creaturely to the artificial, the abstract to the concrete. Her works are never superficially loud; they do not scream. They appear light-footed, yet they are rather observant, empathetic, haunting, touching, and quite explicitly painful. She does not seek the tone, she feels the sound, the essence, the aura in the room. The quiet morning, the scent, the smell of colors, and then a break, the vibrations of the tones—that is what she seeks. It is not seeing, but the atmosphere that makes her visible. And that is the great commonality of her works.

Career:

1983 Apprenticeship in ceramic technology, worked as a glazer at VEB Weimar Porzellan Blankenhain, 1988–91 Studied at the University of Applied Arts in Heiligendamm, 1991–94 Worked at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, 1995 Birth of Anton, 2002 Freelance work as a visual artist. Studio in Dessau and Zickler painting school, 2006 Member of BBK Saxony-Anhalt, 2015 Work scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, 2016 Residency scholarship at Wiepersdorf Castle Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation, 2021 Work scholarship from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation - “Frauenpower” (Girl Power) work group, 2023 Allee-Center Art, Magdeburg Art Prize, 2025 Catalog funding from the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation

Exhibitions:

2025 Templin Gallery in the new town hall. Painting | Drawing, 2024 Magdeburg Kunstmitte. Pictures | Sculptures. Bronze, 2024 Magdeburg Allee-Center Art. New works Painting | Sculptures, 2023 Magdeburg KUNSTMITTE. Pictures | Sculptures, 2023 Weingarten Municipal Gallery. Pictures | Sculptures, 2023 Magdeburg Allee-Center Art. MDCC Art Prize, 2023 Berlin Zehlendorf. Pictures | Sculptures, 2022 Dessau Alte Brauerei. “The First View 2022” Painting, 2022 Halle Concert Hall Ullrichskirche. Exhibition participation, 2021 Bernburg Kunsthalle. ‘sehnSucht’ Painting | Sculpture, 2021 Work scholarship from the State of Saxony-Anhalt -Kultur ans Netz- Work group “Frauen Power”, 2021 Leipzig Museum für Druckkunst. “hortus secretus” 36th LEIPZIG GRAPHIC ART FAIR, 2020 Work scholarship from the State of Saxony-Anhalt -Kultur ans Netz- Work group “Keine Helden” (No Heroes), 2019 Dessau Orangerie. “Also for Adults”. Zeit­­ge­nös­­si­­sche Sinn­­lich­keit in der Kunst (Time­­ge­nös­­si­­sche Sinn­­lich­keit in Art). Pictures | Sculptures. Exhibition participation, 2019 Bernburg. Works on paper | Painting | Graphics, 2019 Dessau Alte Brauerei. “The First View 2019” Painting, 2016 Saxony-Anhalt Art FoundationResidency scholarship at Wiepersdorf Castle, 2015 Halle Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation Scholarship Exhibition “Perfect Nature,” 2014 Berlin Zehlendorf - The New Works, 2013 Klagenfurt Alpen-Adria-Galerie Painting and Berlin Galerie Brunnenstrasse 151. Painting, 2012 Dessau Orangery of the Anhalt Picture Gallery. “Vulnerability” and Berlin Zehlendorf. New Painting, 2010 Dessau Kunsthalle of the Anhaltischer Kunstverein. Painting Sculptures and Apolda Cabinet in the Kunsthaus. Painting