Katarzyna Kot

Katarzyna Kot

Katarzyna Kot’s work is intimately linked to her deep attachment to nature. Trained at the Académie des beaux-arts de Cracovie at the beginning of the 2000s, she followed in 2002 the classes at Giuseppe Penone’s studio at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which would mark her for the rest of her career. She moved to Luxembourg in 2004 and set up her atelier as part of ‘Sixthfloor’, a collective of artists, located in the heart of the forest of the Grand Duchy, allowing her to breathe in nature, to be inspired by it and also to nourish herself by drawing from it the very substance of her work, the trees of local essences, which she compels herself each day to transform, to sculpt, to compose, to recompose…

“Each thought, each emotion, each intention in us, gives us access to the dynamics of consciousness and reflects our specific way of MODELING, CREATING, SCULPTING, and using this universal energy.”

Beyond the ecological ideology, which is at the center of her artistic approach, the work of Katarzyna Kot results from a real exchange with nature, as much by observing and respecting cycles (race of the sun, cycle of water and carbon …), as through a very personal dialectic, which draws on the very beauty of the plant.

For this solar artist, no matter the interior or the exterior; art unfolds according to a universal energy specific to the living, which makes us connect permanently with the earthly elements. Beauty is at the heart of this nature and it is enough to decipher and translate it in order to present it better to us for seeing and reading. Like her mentor, she is undoubtedly part of the survival of an ‘Arte Povera’, which stands today rather for ‘Cose Elementale’, correlation of mankind at the center of the elements and constituents of the living.

Thus, for more than 15 years, Katarzyna Kot has been creating her dreamlike and artistic work, a real mesh for bringing together and connecting men with trees, stones, river water … to air movements. Her installations in the forest as well as her sculptures, which seem to invite nature to enter our interiors, her work is thoroughly alive and doesn’t get tired of repositioning humans at the heart of the solar system.

„By aligning gestures, thoughts, emotions and actions, we can reach another, perhaps more complex understanding of our reality, and get a glimpse at its multiple levels… This is how we can consider mankind in his unity.“
Katarzyna Kot