Katarina Jacobs Verified listing

My artwork has more of a tangible narrative that I impose onto it while painting, many of the themes I explore are how our human body sensationalizes the world around it and within it. Texture and congestion is a major exploration within my paintings, the interaction of both translates into different energy levels used to represent stress. The strings symbolise greater human meanings and are metaphorical through the way they interact by bonding, connecting, bunching, contorting, snagging, tangling, screwing, breaking up and reattaching again.

My work is informed by early abstraction and spiritual modernism, particularly artists like Lee Bontecou, František Kupka, and Hilma af Klint, who each approached abstraction as a way to visualize unseen forces. Like Kupka and af Klint, I treat abstraction as a method for mapping internal and cosmic systems rather than depicting the visible world. Bontecou’s use of tension, containment, and bodily architecture influences how I think about structure in my own work. Alongside these references, I draw from systems theory to understand the body as a repeating pattern of signals, feedback loops, and transformations. This research shapes how I use abstraction not only as expression, but as a tool for investigation.

BMW Foundation- Praterinsel, "Fragments of a Fragile Future", Munich, Germany (Sept-March 2026)

Top 100 Emerging Artists 2025- Arts To Hearts Project, Internationally Juried and Published

Generation- Art, Nature, Future. (April 09- July 31 2025 Neue Siederei, Munich, Germany)

The Reach/The Real (Sullivan Galleries Chicago, March 2020)

GIT LIT Art and Funk Festival (featured artist, November 2nd, 2019)

Lethal Ladies: The Women of True Crime Exhibit (featured artist and panelist, October 2019)