Katie Jayne Britchford

up-close dining

Exhibited at multiple exhibitions/events – (mirrored projection with sound installation)
In collaboration with Thomas Silberhorn

2024
Domagk Atelier open studio weekend, Munich, Germany

2019
14 Neue Ideen für ein erfolgreiches Kempten/Thomas Silberhorn, artig.st Kunstreich Gallery, Kempten, Germany
if i were you what would you do, Galerie___21 Vorwerk-Stift, Hamburg, Germany

‘up-close-dining’ is an interactive art piece in which the viewer becomes a participant of the projected scenario. The mirrored image is taken from a stock photo from SeaWorld in Orlando in America. This particular marine sea park offers its visitors the chance to ’dine’ while experiencing captive Orca whales swimming around and performing with trainers in a tank.

“Dive into Orlando’s most immersive and memorable family dining experience. Following your meal, you’ll get an up-close view of our four rescued whales and the relationship between them and our SeaWorld trainers.”

This outdated and distasteful daily event seems to celebrate humans ability at keeping large wild animals captive for human entertainment. No captive animal, even considered a ‘rescue animal’ should be trained and required to ‘perform’ for human entertainment. What kind of abhorrent scene have we created.

A male killer whale (Orca) can live up to at least 60 years in the wild while a female can typically live about 50 years (but can live up to at least 90 years in the wild.) A captive Orca on average will not live past 20 years.

Coupled with the actual sound track played in the marine park during the dining experience, this art piece attempts to place the viewer right into the scene to encourage thought and reflection based on their own ethical-egoism and its possible consequences.

Hamburg, 2019

Munich, 2024

Postcards for Palestine –

Berlinskej Model, Prague, Czech Republic, 2023
Claire de Rouen Books, London, England, 2023
Venice Biennale, South West Bank: Landworks, Collective Action and Sound exhibition, 2024

Postcards for Palestine is an artist-led initiative, and a collective call to action. It is made up of over 1000 original postcard sized artworks contributed by hundreds of artists from over 40 countries around the world. PfP was founded in October 2023 by artist Peter Watkins as a direct response to the devastating humanitarian crisis which continues to unfold in Gaza and the West Bank today.Over 9,000 EUR was raised at two fundraising events held at Berlinskej Model Gallery, Prague and Claire de Rouen Books, London in early December 2023.All proceeds were donated to UNRWA and PCRF.

It was always crucial that PfP was international in scope, encouraging a plural and far-reaching voice to emerge. We wanted to do more than just fundraise, believing that our collective voice has more impact than anything we could achieve alone. Alongside raising funds, our goal was to create a platform for raising awareness, adding context, having in-person conversations, and providing a platform for artists to unite their networks in solidarity.

www.postcardsforpalestine.com

S_A_U_N_A

Das KloHäuschen
Thalkirchner Straße / Ecke Oberländerstr.
Großmarkthalle Westtor, Munich, Germany

6. April – 4. May 2024

the SAUNA.
finally, you can relax.
don’t worry about the outside world.
breathe in.
self care is important.
breathe out.
mental health is important.
just relax and feel your lungs expand.
feel your privilege.
time to forget and let go of responsibility.
find your happy place.
let go of the idea of community.
let go of the importance of caring for each other.
only you matter right now.
take a deep breath.
everything is fine here.
just close your eyes and relax.

The wellness industry thrives on the concept of self care and how we need to take care of ourselves first and foremost. Experts tell us that our bodies have not evolved to take on all the information we are receiving in the world and we need to take the time for ourselves, to regulate our bodies. For the most part this is true. But one important factor that the wellness industry has forgotten to mention is that caring about EACH OTHER is essential for our survival. We cannot heal our world when the people in it are only focussed on themselves. And collective liberation will heal all of us. SO next time you are in the sauna taking the time for yourself don’t forget the others less fortunate than you, that need your voice and not your silence.

Deliberate ignorance is the quality or state of deliberate unawareness. It is when people do not know because they do not want to know. For if they did know, they would have to take responsibility for knowing; and they would be required to renegotiate their identity and relinquish the status, privilege and authority derived from the false order of knowing. At the very least, they would be forced to leave their comfort zone.

Welcome to the SAUNA, a site specific inatallation made especially for Das KloHäuschen.

Beyond the Matter – Impressions of Eva Hesse

Galerie der Künstler*innen
Maximilianstraße 42, Munich, Germany

25. July – 27. August 2023

BEYOND THE MATTER – Impressions of Eva Hesse, is an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the late great artist Eva Hesse. Hesse was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fibreglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s. The exhibition consists of 20 artists who are inspired by Hesse in their own practise. Whether through her use of materials and forms or simply inspired by the fascinating life she lived each artist has been asked to make work that they feel references Hesse in some way. Tragically she died at the young age of 34. This exhibition is a celebration and a tribute to a wonderful artist that is still inspiring others more than 50 years after her death.

Participating artists:

Judith Adelmann (GER) / Melanie Chacko (GER) / Cordula Schieri (GER) / Sarah Doerfel (GER) / Olga Golos (RUS) / Mari Iwamoto (JPN) / Simone Kessler (GER) / Katja Köditz (GER) / Youlee Ku (KOR) / Gretta Louw (AUS) / Elisa Manig (GER) / Evelyn Möcking (GER) / Felicia Mülbaier (GER) / Ursula Oberhauser (GER) / Maria Antonio Positano (IT) / Kika Rufino (BR) / Anne Seiler (GER) / Sophie Utikal (GER) / Neringa Vasiliauskaite (LT) / Katharina Weishäupl (GER)

Exhibition view

EVA HESSE (1936-1970)
OHNE TITEL 1965 NO TITLE
Aquarell, Kreide und Bleistift auf Papier Watercolor, crayon and pencil on paper
505 x 660 mm
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Inv.-Nr. 2021:181 Z (Faksimile)

Cordula Schieri

Sarah Doerfel

Melanie Chacko

Left to right: Neringa Vasiliauskaite and Judith Adelmann

Judith Adelmann

Neringa Vasiliauskaite

Evelyn Möcking

Ursula Oberhauser

Anne Seiler

Katja Köditz

Left to right: Elisa Manig, Youlee Ku, Elisa Manig, Sophie Utikal

Elisa Manig

Sophie Utikal

Katharina Weishäupl

Floor: Mari Iwamoto Wall: Gretta Louw

Gretta Louw

Kika Rufino

Left to right: Kika Rufino, Felicia Mülbaier

Felicia Mülbaier

Left to right: Simone Kessler, Olga Golos

Short film: EVA HESSE, ‘WALKING THE EDGE’, 2014
Director: Marcie Begleiter Producer: Karen S. Shapiro
Film length: 16m39s
© bdks Productions Inc.

(Photos by Leonie Felle)

Nadja – Clementine – APHER® – Katja – Sophia – Yuka – Rebecca – Jing

Kunstpavillon in Alten Botanischen Garten,
Sophienstraße 7A, Munich, Germany

9. March – 27. March 2022

Jewellery as protection, jewellery as material, jewellery as decoration, jewellery as gesture, jewellery as invitation, jewellery as product, nature as jewellery, jewellery as process, jewellery as film.

Eight visual artists share their view of the wearable object through cinematic representation.

Participating artists: Nadja Buttendorf, Clementine Edwards, Angela Geisenhofer (APHER®),
Katja Köditz, Sophia Mainka, Yuka Oyama, Rebecca Thomas, Jing He

Poster design by Molly Dyson

Left to right: Katja Köditz, APHER®, Sophia Mainka

Left to right: Jing He, APHER®

Yuka Oyama

Sophia Mainka

Nadja Buttendorf

Left to right: Katja Köditz, APHER®, Sophia Mainka

Jing He

Clementine Edwards

Left to right: Rebecca Thomas, Nadja Buttendorf

APHER®, Yuka Oyama, Clementine Edwards

PHOTOS BY: Stefan Freund

supported by:

Human Puppets

Gartenlaube der Kunst
Am Bogen / Ecke Rathausstr.
85521 Ottobrunn

15. November 2020 – 15. January 2021

“Why do we keep some animals as pets while we eat others?

It’s a known fact that some farm animals are more intelligent than our favoured cats and dogs. Pigs come to you when you whistle for them and they love to be petted just like a dog does.

But billions of animals suffer at the hands of humans every year in the meat and dairy industry, yet household pets like cats and dogs continue to multiply at an unprecedented level and are treated in the Western world as human companions; our human puppets.

Unlike our favoured pets like cats and dogs the farm animal will live its entire life in an intense farming system and is unable to express its normal behaviour. Their life spans are cut short, their living conditions are inhumane and cruel and these animals are purely processed like manufactured commodities.

In 2019, 59.7 million pigs, cattle, sheep, goats and horses were slaughtered in Germany. In addition, 703.4 million chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and other birds were also slaughtered. (source: Statistisches Bundesamt/Albert-Schweizer-Stiftung)

EU regulations stipulate that a pig weighing 50 to 110 kilograms needs just 0.75 square meters of space. Based on these figures and the size of this glass house I calculated that almost 8 fully grown pigs would live their entire lives inside this small and suffocating space. (266cm x 221cm)

The empathy we have for particular animals over others is such a paradox in our society today that the system continues to fail billions of animals while it favours others.

This absurd process comes down to a persons unwillingness to accept responsibility for their own actions as a consumer. On one hand we love our cat or dog and treat it like part of the family, yet on the other hand we consume the flesh from a chicken or a cow without even considering its life.

We need to find compassion for all animals to end the suffering of the selected few.

This installation represents the animals humans have chosen as their friends and companions. Made to look like an expensive marble monument to our pets I am hoping to highlight this extreme paradox in human behaviour. It is my hope, as a conceptual artist that this work makes you think more about the plight of ‘the other animals’ that humans treat in an insufferable way for their own consumption.” – Katie Jayne Britchford

eurospar supertip
2019 – film

This film was made during my residency in the north of Italy in the summer of 2019.
(Longega A.I.R – South Tyrol, Italy.)

Using the vast Dolomites as the landscape,
I imagined a world where nothing living had survived;
only dry sun bleached rocks and the continuous journey
of a few lonely plastic products,
rolling and rolling,
never ending.

jewellery-not jewellery

Galerie von Empfangshalle + t156
Theresienstrasse 154 & 156, München

9. March 2020 – 15. March 2020

Opening night with Performance by Kyrill Constantinides Tank.

14.03.2020, 10:00 – 18:00 ‘Skin Job’ All day performance by Max Weisthoff.

A multi-disciplinary exhibition that attempts to blur and break down the boundaries between contemporary jewellery and art: Sculpture, media, painting and performance artists come together to create art pieces with jewellery, art pieces about jewellery and of course jewellery as art pieces.
This exhibition opens a broader conversation in regards to how we define jewellery in an art context.

Participating artists include:

Niko Abramidis & NE / Lina Augustin / Kyrill Constantinides Tank / Jonah Gebka / Susu Gorth / Florian Haller / Barbara Herold / Florian Huth / Maria Justus / Simone Kessler / Sophia Mainka / Judith Neunhäuserer / Ursula Oberhauser / Paula Leal Olloqui / Florian Rautenberg / Ivo Rick / Cordula Schieri / Anne Seiler / Thomas Silberhorn / Wolfgang Stehle / Neringa Vasiliauskaite / Stela Vula / Peter Weiss / Max Weisthoff

@empfangshalle
@_t156_

photos by Florian Huth and Katie Jayne Britchford