Katrin Korfmann
Katrin Korfmann is a photographic artist, researcher, and Senior tutor at KABK. She teaches Image at the BA Graphic Design and Post Photography at the Master Non Linear Narrative. She was a member of the Design Lectorate Research Group from 2020 to 2024. Currently, Katrin is a PhD candidate at ACPA Leiden University, performing research in and through artistic practice.
Rooted in photographic practice, Katrin’s work employs images and installations as a means of exploring the potentials, promises, limitations, and perspectives inherent in the medium of photography. These explorations are concerned with investigating and interpreting social constructs in public spaces.
Katrin’s installations have been awarded numerous prizes, including the Prix de Rome (2nd), the Esther Kroon Award, and the Bieler Fototage Prize. She has received grants from international institutions such as the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; the Robert Bosch Foundation; the Würth Foundation; and the Mondriaan Fund. Katrin has three artist monographs published about her work and has exhibited at Nederlands Museum of Photography, Rotterdam; the Kunstmuseum Den Haag; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; and Aperture, New York; Three Shadows Art Centre and CEAC, Xiamen, OFOTO, Shanghai; Azad Gallery, Tehran; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Frankfurter Kunstverein, among others.
Korfmann is a Senior tutor at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague since 2010, where she currently teaches Image in the BA Graphic Design and Post Photography in the Master Non Linear Narrative. In addition to being a research fellow at KABK Research Group 2020-2025, Korfmann has lectured as a guest tutor at MFA Fine Arts Otis in Los Angeles, Master Performing Public Space Fontys Tilburg, Elisava Barcelona and the University of Art Kassel and Bremen, amongst others. Currently, Katrin is a PhD candidate at ACPA Leiden University, performing research in and through artistic practice.
