Katinka Bock

Katinka Bock, born in 1976 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is a German visual artist who has lived and worked in Paris since the early 2000s.
Katinka Bock has a preference for humble, natural materials such as terracotta, wood, plaster, ceramics, leather, and fabric.
With a kind of delicate simplicity, she often combines these materials with found objects, sometimes industrial waste. For the artist, the materials she uses carry a meaning that transcends their physicality. They are provocative because of the way they evoke deep and immediate emotions that precede conceptualization.
Taking a step back, turning one’s gaze inward, and suggesting a new gesture are all central themes in Katinka Bock’s artistic practice.
So too are her relationship with time, memory, transmission, and the body.

Since 2003, her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in France and internationally, including most recently: Katinka Bock and Tong Wenmin, Art by matters, Hangzhou, China (2026); Cartographies of Growth: Katinka Bock in Dialogue with Lois Weinberger, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (2026), Interface, Dijon, France (2025), Assemblée Anonyme, Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium (2024), Der Sonnenstich, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris (2023), Palomar, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris-Romainville, France (2023), One to Eight, 303 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2022), Some and Any, Feavering, Cahn Kunstraum, Basel, Switzerland (2022), Common People, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium (2022), Logbook, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (2021).

Katinka Bock has been selected for artist residencies in France, the United States, Germany, and Italy at the Villa Medici, Rome in 2012-2013. In 2012, she won the prestigious Ricard Foundation Prize, France. In 2015, she received the visual arts grant from the Botin Foundation, Spain. She was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize, France, and won the 1% Art Market Production Prize, France.

Her works are part of the collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Jumex, Mexico City; the Kadist Foundation in Paris and San Francisco, Lafayette Anticipations—Moulin Family Endowment Fund in Paris, the Kunstmuseum Luzern in Lucerne, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in St. Gallen, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in Winterthur, the Mamco in Geneva, the Mudam in Luxembourg, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago, the Kunstmuseum Bonn in Bonn, and the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Stuttgart …

Her work is represented by the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery (Paris).
Katinka Bock has been collaborating with MiniMasterpiece Gallery since 2019.