Katharina Hinsberg

Critical text

Katharina Hinsberg (b. 1967, Karlsruhe) thinks of drawing as a trail that is never figurative, to release into space, marking one s own rhythm. Starting in the 1990s, she has explored the limits and fragility of this expressive medium, especially in relation to its intrinsic two-dimensional character. Her technique, in fact, sets out to project the drawing into a new three-dimensional realm, cutting out very slender abstract forms from a sheet of paper, or even tendril-like tangles that come to life on the wall, creating shadows. For the artist, drawing can coincide with the shadow the paper casts on the wall itself, or with the projection into the surrounding space. What is certain is that the concept of drawing is interpreted by the artist outside the space of the sheet of paper and is derived from the ink-coloured cut-out that comes alive, freed from its two-dimensional surface.

Text by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli

The artist’s voice

I speak of traces because I don't know exactly where the drawing begins and whether it is already drawing at this stage, or whether it is still drawing at all... It is searching, groping, roaming over the field and swinging out. (...) And the rhythm is important, the regular noise is something that carries me.