Katrin Hanusch is a multidisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, and drawing with a deep and ongoing conversation with materials and processes. Her work engages with the impermanence, fragility and interconnectedness of our world and often takes on a perspective that addresses longterm effects of our actions in intimate encounters or immersive environments.

Katrin developed the work on display during her residency at the Alice Boner Institute in Varanasi, India earlier this year. Her research into the everyday and the use of local materials in the Spiritual Capital of India came together in a series of brass casts. Forming a small palm sized object from river mud of the Ganges becomes meaningful, when further up- and downstream you would walk past the open burning sites for dead bodies depicting scenes that seem equally as timeless as they are ancient. Katrin wrapped the mud in newspaper and tied it with thread that she collected along the banks of the holy river.

The work was cast employing a traditional sand casting technic at the foundry at Jnana-Pravaha, Centre for Cultural Studies and Research in Varanasi. The residency was awarded by the Shelagh Cluett Trust, London.

Katrin received an MA in Fine Art at the University of Art and Design Halle, Germany (2008) and an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2014) and co-founded dieschoenestadt, a gallery funded by the Art Council Halle/Germany (2008-12). Born in Germany Katrin moved to London in 2012.