Katharina Anna Loidl studied Experimental Design and Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz and has been working as a freelance artist since 2009. Her works have been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions and honoured with awards and scholarships. Katharina Anna Loidl's artistic oeuvre is based on conceptual practice and includes graphics, installations, objects, video and photography. In her artistic vocabulary of forms, she examines the connecting element of rural nature with urban architecture, the abstract with the representational, the historical with the contemporary and futuristic. In doing so, she addresses the conditions of human existence, taking into account socio-economic and ecological aspects in the context of post-industrial landscapes. As part of her project-related expeditions through Europe, North America, North Africa and South-East Asia, she has focussed on territorial and climatic changes caused by the extraction of natural resources and the effects of ecological processes on the human habitat.

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Black matter shows a coal mining tower at the moment of blasting, which was carried out in the course of the extensive decommissioning of the mines in the Ruhr area and marks a turning point in climate history.

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Katharina Anna Loidl