Gohmert’s work focuses on initiating and marking moments of connection and interaction with the outside world.
The interactions she documents in paintings often focus on the brain. Experiences are chartered with symbols and words, celebrating form for its own sake rather than its literal meaning.
Her installations, sound instruments and objects use public and private space to draw individuals into intentional focus in the present. Her objects often lead viewers to a moment of connection by haunting their peripheries, with many of her works incomplete until activated by a participant.
An aesthetic of ink, charcoal and bone often finds form in these works as well as in drawings and poems on paper.
Since/After (being affected by) temporary blindness affected the artist (deeply) (in 2018), memory and mapping the brain’s processes have became an increasingly important focus. Her work therefore highlights/emphasizes the power the mind plays in creating (its) reality.
Gohmert was born in the U.S. in 1983. She lived in Shanghai from 2008 – 2013 and in 2014 moved to Berlin, founding the artist collective Gonzomechanics in 2017. In 2019 she received an MFA in ”Public Art & New Artistic Strategies” from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She now lives and works in Berlin and Weimar with her practice divided between Germany, China and the U.S.
Selected exhibitions,
performances:
2021
das Kollektiv
galerie eigenheim, berlin, germany
mobile roots
06.08 – 22.8, 2021
stockwerk, weimar, germany
antonyms
whywhyart, shanghai, china
2019
die route wird neu berechnet
goethe-institut
kultursymposium weimar, germany
did you mean bauhaus?
galerie bernau, bernau bei berlin, germany
imaginary bauhaus museum,
schiller-museum, weimar, germany
LEIPZIGER BUCHMESSE
Leipziger Messe, Leipzig, germany
woche der demokratie
deutsches nationaltheater, weimar, germany
manifest of practice
thüringer staatskanzlei, berlin, germany
2018
deutschland...
galerie eigenheim
positions berlin art fair, berlin, germany
deutschland...
galerie eigenheim, berlin, germany
calling blind (solo)
residency 108, clermont, ny, u.s.
2017
3. berliner herbstsalon
maxim gorki theater, berlin, germany
entre quatro paredes (performance)
theaterplatz, weimar, germany
SEEDS (performance)
Deutsche Zentralbücherei für Blinde, Leipzig, germany
(un)sounds of buchenwald
momentum, berlin, germany
(un)sounds of buchenwald
buchenwald memorial, weimar, germany
2016
jubiläumsausstellung
kunsthalle harry graf kessler, weimar, germany
jubiläumsausstellung
galerie eigenheim, berlin, germany
harvest,
galerie eigenheim, weimar, germany
2015
state(s) of panic (solo)
galerie eigenheim, weimar, germany
the stroke of a pen
ifa gallery, brussels, belgium
2014
faces and traces
swatch art peace hotel, shanghai, china
unbreaken
l'atelier–ksr, berlin, germany
2013
shot in the dark (solo)
little victories, shanghai, china
THE ESSENCE OF RANDOM
Yang Shanghai Art Space, Shanghai, china
hustle (solo)
studio rouge (bund), shanghai, china
drawing and what?
ifa gallery, shanghai, china
2012
the FLAMING LAMBORGHINI
Studio Rouge on the Bund, Shanghai, china
secret 7
stageBACK, shanghai, china
roxy rhino rouge
studio rouge, hong kong
2011
enter the dragon
studio rouge (m50), shanghai, china
lost and found
stageBACK gallery, shanghai, china
2010
rocket's red glare (solo)
intercept gallery, shanghai, china
urbanvideoscapeshanghai (performance)
public spaces, shanghai, china
M120: MOGANSHAN RE-USED
M120, Shanghai, china
HER VISION
Jiangshan Art Museum, Chongqing, china
HER vision
qisheng art museum, chengdu, china
2009
chinahead (solo)
bsc gallery, beijing, china
ZIBO INTERNATIONAL
Zibo Museum, Zibo, China
ich bin einstein (performance)
creek art, shanghai, china
MINIMALIST SHANGHAI
MOCA, Shanghai, china
art into life/life into art
pen and brush, new york, u.s.
education:
2019
m.f.a.
”public art & new artistic strategies”
bauhaus-universität weimar, germany
2007
b.a.
”studio art”
university of texas at austin, tx, u.s.
Projects, Prizes, Residencies:
2020
Residency
Galerie HELL, Berlin, Germany
grant recipient
Galerie HELL, Berlin, Germany
2018
Residency
Residency 108, Clermont, NY, U.s.
2017
founder
Gonzomechanics artist collective
GUEST Speaker, (dis)Orientation Process
Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin, Germany
2015
GUEST Speaker, State(s) of Panic
Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany
Residency
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2014
Residency
AFFECT at Agora, Berlin, Germany
GUEST Speaker, Skill Exchange: Affect
Agora Collective Berlin, Germany
2012
GUEST Speaker, Make it Happen
EPWS lecture panel, Shanghai, China
2011
Residency
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2009
Residency
Beijing Studio Center, Beijing, China
2009
Grant Recipient
The Working Artist Grant
Award
the Mixed Media Award, Art Buzz Collection
selected publications:
upcoming:
2021
“Entre Quatro Paredes”,
Difficult Conversations, ed. Alla Myzelev
2019
Traces of becoming,
(self-published)
”germany’s bauhaus is getting its due”,
the washington post
”Was Truthähne zum Bauhaus sagen”,
moz.de, Kerstin Ewald
”exoten, natürlicher auslese”,
thüringische landeszeitung weimar
2015
”twenty on tuesday”,
artscene.guru, janis rucins
2014
faces and traces,
swatch art peace hotel
unbreaken,
broken dimanche press, affect module ii
2013
”a gallery on the roll”,
randian, sarah harper
”little victories”,
domus, francesca esposito
2012
”111 liyang lu”,
creative hunt, frances arnold
”kathryn gohmert: chinese attitude”,
inluxe, zhang yiqing
”room with a view of brains”,
spiegel, philipp mattheis
”ci vuole arte”,
io donna, candida morvillo
”verloren in shanghai”,
neue züricher zeitung, philip mattheis
”art in the city”,
prestige, daniel tan & candy lai
”museen fer sim city”,
du, vol. 823, hannes grassegger
2011
”bol de provoc’ positive à shanghai”,
la liberte, p. michaud
“das ende vom 696?”,
art kunstmagazin, eike stratmann
”arts roundup: 3 to see”,
smart shanghai, frances arnold
”lost and found”,
time out shanghai, bs
collections:
The Swatch Group, Biel, Switzerland
Residency 108, Clermont, NY, U.S.
Chuck Norris, Navasota, TX, U.S.
Thüringer Staatskanzlei, Erfurt, Germany
Private Collections in Switzerland, Germany the U.S., the Uk and China