Katja Felle

No. 10

2015, acrylic on canvas, 170 cm x 220 cm

Katja Felle’s theme is the digital image, its ephemeral appearance and circulation, dependent on electronic devices and interfaces, and thus full of noise when compared to the traditional painterly image, noise that the contemporary perception of the visual has already internalized. “When fixated in the format of a painting, an interference that is only momentary and transient on a screen becomes prolonged; captured in a frozen image it intensifies our irritation – it’s an unfixable error now. My understanding of an interference is twofold: as that which disrupts order and creates chaos, increasing entropy, and as the constructive element that enables the creation of new order. An interference is a moment between two extremes – order and disorder, the emptiness that results from the collapse of the system.” (K. Felle)

Katja Felle (1988)  completed her studies in Painting under the supervision of Prof. Bojan Gorenec at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana in 2011. She graduated in 2015 under the mentorship of Prof. Žiga Kariž and co-mentorship of Prof. Sergej Kapus (higher education university study programme before the Bologna Process reform). In 2017, she was accepted into the master study programme at the Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin. She is part of the 3kolektiv art group. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.