PORTFOLIO (short version) Catharina Cronenberger Golebiowska ...

PORTFOLIO (short version)
Catharina Cronenberger Golebiowska
Dipl. Designer / Master in Fine Art
cathproductions@gmx.de
cathproductions.de
lives and works in London and Frankfurt / Germany

Dancing Mosquitos
Installation at Offenbach harbour for the „Festival Junger Talente“ with 16 floating objects / sculptures,
50 x 100 x 80 cm (each), wood, varnish, styrofoam, rope, 2008

film still 2:53 min
Two Knights Attack - Keres vs Arlamowski, 1950
Video, HD 5:00 min, 2011
64 individually filmed videos are showing floating objects
as pencils, hooks or shaped ice on water or on black ink.
The objects are representing chess figures following a
real chess match, which was played by the charismatic
chess player Paul Keres in Poland in 1950.

Chess board print
screen printing, 50 copies, 30 x 40 cm, 2011
Pink Flamingo
Performative installation,
wall painting, table, chairs,
chess board, 2011
A performance took place
on that table. Two players
were playing chess and
shogy, a japanese chess
game, on the same board
at the same time.

film still of the beginning
Disappearing Landscape
Video, HD 2:15 min, 2011
film still 1:18 min Installation view, flatscreen, video, object
A simplified landscape made of modeled, coloured ice melts down in
a dramatic motion. This act evokes an image of an Armageddon, an
act of God. Hills are guzzled by the burning sky.
My video work is a contemporary take on landscape and its representation.
The work can be shown as a single projection or in combination
with another object.

Universes
Video, vertical format 16:9, different running times aprox.1-2 min
(each video), 2010
Various abstracted interpretations of universes are choreographed
with simple objects based on the idea of an expanding universe.
The objects as pencils or ping-pong balls are floating in their individual
movements in a water basin. The videos are combined to
abstract compositions in motion.
film still / pencils on milk film still / objects on black ink and milk film still / objects on beetroof juice film still / objects and ink on milk

Installation view, 2011 Detail Vitalograph 1&2, 2011
Vitalograph 1 & 2
Installation, 2 Tetrahedrons, 2 Machines, Video projection „Reverse Systems“,
2:15min, 2011
A video with floating ping-pong balls on black ink is projected on two tetrahedron
sculptures from above. The choreography was created by my own
breathing. The two Vitalograph 1&2 machines pretend to controll the motions.
The glittering moondust surface of the tetrahedrons reflects the projection into
the space. A Vitalograph is an apparatus for measuring the volume of air in the
lungs and translates this information into drawings. This installation pretends
to “work“ without any relation of cause and effect being clearly established or
even quantified.

Rotamixer Deluxe
Sculpture in motion, rotor, plinth, LED lamp, 125 cm x 25
cm, 2011
A mechanic object with a working motor stands on a hanging
plinth. The upper part is rotating and shaking with
creating a confusing noise. A small LED lamp is pointing
the glitter surface of the sculpture and creates reflections
in the surroundings.

Family
two objects; wooden slats, acrylic paint, varnish, dusted glitter; 320 x 220 x 125 cm and 120 x 60 x 82 cm, 2008
Thematicly Family is a work about the loss of a family member and the way of dealing with this circumstance. Visually it‘s an arrangement
of abstract jacuzzi shaped objects with non-walkable ascending ladders and dusted geometric shadows made of glitter. (Catalogue)

Wall Relief
Wall relief, an arrangement with 12 individual sculptures, wood, varnish, styrofoam, rope, 300 cm x 200 cm, 2008
Installation view, Kunstverein Vierheim (Catalogue), Germany

Mock-up of a winding stairs
paper, wooden sticks, forex cardboard, pins;
450 cm (h) x 100 cm, 2007
A site-specific sculpture for a show at Benrath Castle in Düsseldorf with
the motto „Paradise Found“. This very fragile non-walkable staircase
stands for all desires we aspire to fulfill. (Catalogue)

Tiles objects
ceramic tiles, sizes variable, 2006
Seven works made of colored
tiles. At a temperature of 820°C,
the drawings are fired into the
surface. Amongst other topics,
the drawings are about female
assassination, censorship, or my
experiences as a trainee in a muslim
dye-works family business in
Gujarat / India.
Round Paintings
canvas, alluminium frame, acrylic
paint, cotton, Ø150 cm, 2003
Four hand-made canvaces with an
embroidery hoop made of aluminium.
The visual content is creates
with two technics, painting and
stiching and is about the following
topics:
a Potjomkin village called Pirapora
in Brasil, female genital mutilation
in Africa, Mr. Krohn, a german
inventor of an ideal mines removing
machine and about alcohol
abuse.
(Catalogue)

Paper weights - Wars 2003
rasin casting, objects, text, Ø15 cm, 2003
After the Iraq War started in 2003, I was pointing to other
conflicts, which were happening at the same time. Over
those months, the news was so silent about other issues.
So, I‘ve created nine paper weights and depicted every
conflict on the back sides. The objects were presented on
a floating neon colored model landscape.
Centres of conflicts:
Kashmir, Israel / Palestine, Georgia, Colombia, Congo,
Iraque, Ivory Coast, Sudan und Chechnia