Katya Derksen
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  • Menu
    • Home
    • About
    • Work
      • Tape drawing
      • Slant
      • Rotation
      • Process
      • Connect
      • Parallel
      • Patchwork Scraps
      • Diagnonal Series
      • Diagonals
      • Adjacent
      • Rhythm
      • Form
      • Stripes of Texaco
      • Segment
      • Repetition
      • Trio
      • Urban Structures
      • Shift
      • 2014- 2017
        • Elements
        • Speelruimte
        • Kiosk
        • Lines
        • Room for Negotiation
        • Room 133
    • News
    • Contact
    • Shop
Inspired by architecture and geometric forms, Katya works across various creative disciplines including collage, painting, textiles and screen printing, demonstrating a bold, graphic and energetic experience. Space often defies the dimensions and materiality of the work, utilising the arrangement of lines and how they interact and affect one another through the experimentation of colour and composition, which are some of the fundamental aspects visualised through her work.  As part of her research, Katya makes notes, sketches, photos and converts them into new ideas - her work reflects the effective use of minimal sentiment and engages with architectural and typographical structuring to break up and re-evaluate the visual space within her works.   
The installations are composed of materials including acrylic, canvas, ceramic tiles, glass, paper, tape, thread and wood connecting aspects of daily life in urban environments and two and three - dimensional work.  
The continuous lines allow for the transformation of the dynamics into an energetic space. Katya seeks to interrogate and inquire about space and relationships within it, the aesthetic as well as the functional.

Education​

​Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, 2011 - 2014​ BA (Hons) Drawing

Solo Shows

2023

Upcoming Rotate Gallery, London England

2022

Open Studio, Hypha Studios x Mason & Fifth, London, England

2021

Connect, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia

Parallel, The Lido Stores, Margate, England

​Pop up, The Margate School, Margate, England

2019

​Urban Structures, Unit 16, Margate, England

2018

Elements, Galerie de I'Angle, Paris, France

2016

External_Εξωτερικός, Kimonos Art Center, Pafos, Cyprus
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Villa Calderón, Ville de Louviers, France

Selected Group Shows

2023

Upcoming Mason & Fifth, London, England 

Upcoming Forms and Visions: Convergences in Transitory Development Vol.3 Online Exhibition, Contemporary Art Chronicle, San Francisco, United States

The Power of Infinity Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States

2022

Sugarcube II, The Lido Stores, Margate, England

Women In Abstraction Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States

The Mindful Editions Charity Art Fair, London, England

FLOW Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States

Statements in yellow + blue and red + white, Galerie SEHR, Koblenz, Germany

PANAL Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States

Abstraction in Action Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States

Untitled Miami Artsy Exhibition, Alfa Gallery, Miami, United States​
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2021

"Honourable Mention" ART MATTERS 4 Online Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

Sugar Cube, The Lido Stores, Margate, England

Graduation Auction led by Bonhams Fine Art Auctioneers, The Margate School, Margate, England

Camberwell Arts Festival Digital Arts Market, London, England

Tactile Sublime Online Exhibition, dodomu gallery, New York, United States

Facade, 71 Powerscroft Rd, London, England
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The Viewing Room Virtual Exhibition curated by Lois Harkin, Outpost Gallery x Stay Connected, Norwich, England 

Shape In All Its Forms Online Exhibition juried by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Site: Brooklyn, New York, United States
 
"Honourable Mention" ART MATTERS 3 Online Exhibition juried by Reclaim  Collective,  Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany    

2020

"Honourable Mention" ART MATTERS 2 Online Exhibition, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany

​36th Annual Open Online Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, London, England

Emergent Vision curated by Uncovered Collective, Safehouse 1, London, England

Art & Fashion curated by Irina Rusinovich, HAZE Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Unrealized Projects, Feldfünf, Berlin, Germany

Unfold curated by Carlos de Lins, Espacio Gallery, London, England

Contemporary Fine Art, The Old Biscuit Factory, London, England

2019

Eesoterikós, SIILK Gallery, Athens, Greece
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EXHIBIT HERE, Bargehouse Oxo Tower, London, England

Collecteurs: The Digital Museum of the Future, New York, United States

Summer Mood curated by GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Oblomov, Berlin, Germany

Small Works Online Exhibition,  Trestle Gallery, New York, United States

.../CC01(Carbon Copy 01), Tique Art Space, Antwerp, Belgium 

2018

THERE IS NO GRAVITY, Espace Oppidum, Paris, France

​Small Works Online Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, New York, United States 

2017

Speelruimte w/ Irene van de Mheen, MAAS Ruimte Voor Kunst, Nijmegen, Netherlands 

2016

Galerie Temporaire de l'ESADHaR, Rouen, France 

2015

Room for Negotiation, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, England

2014

Latencies, Galerie 65, Le Havre, France

Camberwell Degree Show,  Camberwell College of Arts, London, England

2013

55 Gracechurch Street, London, England
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VAULT, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, England

Awards

2019

Nominated ​Blooom Award by Warsteiner

Collections

Mason & Fifth​

Publications

Connect Exhibition Catalogue, 2021

Artists' Directory, Aesthetica Magazine, December/January Edition 2020

Art & Fashion Catalogue, 2020

Talent, SE5 [Magazine], Issue 01, May 2018

Camberwell Degree Show Catalogue, Camberwell Press, 2014 
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VAULT Catalogue, Camberwell Press, 2013
  • Menu
    • Home
    • About
    • Work
      • Tape drawing
      • Slant
      • Rotation
      • Process
      • Connect
      • Parallel
      • Patchwork Scraps
      • Diagnonal Series
      • Diagonals
      • Adjacent
      • Rhythm
      • Form
      • Stripes of Texaco
      • Segment
      • Repetition
      • Trio
      • Urban Structures
      • Shift
      • 2014- 2017
        • Elements
        • Speelruimte
        • Kiosk
        • Lines
        • Room for Negotiation
        • Room 133
    • News
    • Contact
    • Shop