Katja Schenker (*St. Gallen, 1968) lives and works in Zurich. Her artistic works focus on the areas of live performance, drawing, sculpture and instal­lations in internal and external spaces, highlighting the use of natural materials in most cases. The sensuality of these materials play an important role, as do their context, as well as their spatial and temporal dimensions, such as mass, perme­a­bility or peris­ha­bility. Schenker’s artworks aim to thereby heighten the experience and perception of one’s own corpo­reality in relation to the bodies of the audience and that of the artist. In her processes, concepts such as skin, openness and hold play an important role.

She has received among others the Swiss Art Award three times, as well as the Swiss Performance Art Award and in 2021 the St. Gallen Cultural Founda­tion’s ‘Recognition Prize’. Katja Schenker studied compa­rative literature, art history and philosophy at the University of Zurich and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.