Kathrin Böhm
Biography
Kathrin Böhm works as an artist and organizer across interdependent realms of cultural production, including art worlds. Her organizational and spatial work supports collective forms of (re)producing public space, reclaiming the economy for more-than-capitalist futures, and enabling a new trans-localism that acknowledges the rural.
She is a founding member of the international artist initiative Myvillages (since 2003), the art and architecture collective Public Works (active 1999 - 2012), and the art-led action group Keep it Complex – Make it Clear (2016–2020). She initiated the Haystacks series (2013), community arts enterprise Company Drinks (2014), the Centre for Plausible Economies together with Kuba Szreder (2018) and Myvillages' Rural School of Economics together with Wapke Feenstra (2020).
Kathrin Böhm's work within collectives has expanded the terms of socially engaged art practice through a wide range of co-produced, complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms, which often begin with familiar everyday forms such as a shop, a wallpaper, or a drink. She currently holds an art professorship at the Economics Department/Alanus University, and is a member of the Community Economies Institute.