Catherin Schöberl

Feminist Digital Dimensions

Catherin Schöberl

Basel, CH www.catherin-schoeberl.de

“I see art as a form of political empowerment. Artworks can show us the world and the society in its capacity, complexity, and uncertainty, sparing us from trying to find easy solutions for complex challenges.

My artistic work is, on the one hand, a tool for me to explore my surrounding, the world and myself. On the other hand, it is a display to get in contact with others about the big questions it may arouse and to find understanding in each other. I could not give a precise explanation of what I make at the end, since all of my artworks are very individual and distinct: new media works, interactive installations, sculptures and collages—at the end, I reckon, art must be displayed, put up for discussion and exposed to reception, to reach its completeness. As an artist and art educator at the same time, I try to explore the interfaces in between my own artistic work and the possibilities of education and interaction in its context. ”

Catherin Schöberl Intimate Gazes, 2018 Inkjet-print, digital collage on paper 80 x 120 cm

Catherin Schöberl graduated from the Uni- gender and feminism. versity of Cologne, Germany in 2019, with a During her artistic career, she has been able bachelor‘s degree in Art, German and Educa- to show her work at the “Women’sMuseum” in tional Science. She is currently studying “Art Bonn, Germany. In 2018 she was part of the AndDesign Education” at the Academy of Art Top20 L. Fritz-Gruber Price and participated and Design in Basel, Switzerland. with her photography in two exhibitions in Co-

In addition to her studies, she works in an logne, Germany. OffSpaceforArtcalled DOCK,in Basel. In her practical artistic work, she mainly deals with philosophical and socially critical questions of- Text by the artist ten connected to topics regarding questions of 115