Katja Mater

Bio

Katja Mater is a visual artist, filmmaker, editor and educator working between Amsterdam and Brussels. Mater’s artistic practice is focused on the parameters of optical media and combines various disciplines such as photography, film, drawing, performance and installation.

Mater works to reveal the ways in which optical media and the human eye behave differently, the former being capable of recording events that simultaneously can and cannot be—holding them midway between information and interpretation. Revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through mediating between time, space, perception, and our understanding of them.

Alongside a solo practice as a visual artist, Mater is involved in different collaborative projects, as editor of Girls Like Us Magazine since 2014 and as one of the founding members of Mothers & Daughters, a Lesbian* and Trans* Bar.