WORK SAMPLES

Catharina Cronenberger Golebiowska Visual Artist / Prop Maker

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Cell Studios 89 Ridley Road, Dalston

E8 2NP London / UK

Form is never static. Form is alive, vital and always mobile.

I am a highly qualified and experienced sculptor. Equipped with a wide material knowledge and confident with tools I have participated and installed works in over 50 exhibitions. I have several pulblications, founded the artist platform The Chess Club and I am running The Death Ray Film Club London. Further, I am organising symposiums, give talks internationally and I am a proactive culture ambassador within the German National Academic Foundation.

Being a solutionist and team player with a flexible, optimistic and organised at-titude, I like to work highly imaginatively, goal focused and prioritise tasks when under pressure. I am enthusiastic about working across the creative industries on individual art projects, as sculptor / prop maker for design companies and on film and TV productions.

2011 Master in Fine Art, Sculpture and Media, Slade School of Fine Arts, London2008 Master in Art, Dipl.Designer, Sculpture and History of Art, University College of Art and Design (Hfg) Offenbach, Germany 2005 Studies in Ceramics and Sculpture, College of Art Bergen, Norway

Satellite and Interstellar CloudsMDF, build-in slide projector, 80 analog slides cut of transparencies, spectral lens Bestregarts Gallery Frankfurt am Main, 2013

Vitalograph 1 & 2Installation, Video projection „Reverse Systems“, 90 cm x 75 cm x 120 cm

Two machines pretend to control floating spheres on the moon dust surface of the Tetrahedrons. A projection presents geometric systems of floating ping-pong balls drifting apart in smooth movements. The choreography was created by blowing air through straws following the idea of a molecular entity.

Techincal Process:Creating technical drawing for the Tetrahedrons and support shelves for the ma-chines. Cutting parts / shapes of MDF with a band saw and glueing them with PVA. Emptying the original machines of the inside content, except some techni-cal parts. Cutting exact shapes of glitter fabric and sticking them onto the metal surface with liquid contact adhesive. Installing a projector above the sculptures.

The World‘s Our Oyster, APT Gallery London 2012

Masks - Joseph Fashion

Creating 70 futuristic masks from printed transparencies for an international window display.

Techincal Process: Following numbered nearly iden-tical CNC cutted mask parts, te-sting various glueing possibilities to achieve desired transparant glue outcome. Careful handling and packing.

Harlequin Design, London, 2013

PROP MAKING

WOOD WORK

Jacuzzi (3)Two objects made of wooden slats, acrylic paint, varnish, hinges, dusted glitter; 320 x 220 x 125 cm and 120 x 60 x 82 cm.

This installation is an arrangement of abstract jacuzzi shaped objects with non-walkable ascending ladders and geometric shadows made of glitter dust.HFG Offenbach, 2008

Dancing Mosquitos (1)Installation of 16 floating objects at the Young Talents Festival 50 x 100 x 80 cm (each), wood, varnish, styrofoam, ropes and anchors. Offenbach Harbour Marina 2008

Wall Relief (2)Arrangement with 12 individual sculptures made of handcut wood, painted with water proof varnish, attached to styrofoam, 300 x 200 cmKunstverein Vierheim, 2008

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H&M Christmas Shop Window 2014 (original pictures are strictly confidential)

Creating five large gift boxes made of brass as a part of two large window displays.

Techical process: Following an accurate technical drawing, cut-ting brass with a hacksaw and angle grinder, hand bending, glueing, careful handling and packing.

Millington Associates London, 2014

METAL WORK

Rotamixer DeluxeSculpture in motion, rotor, plinth, 125 cm x 25 cmA mechanic object with a working motor on a hanging plinth is shaking, creating an abstract noise. Techical process:Creating technical drawings, cutting out of steel with a hand saw, bending, welding. Supportive plinth is made of wood, which is cut and glued together with PVA. A strechable glitter fabric is cut to size and glued with 2 components adhesive.

Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2011 replacement picture

MODEL MAKING

Architectual Model - Rear view, Entrance Ministry of Justice

For the participation in an Ar-chitectual Art contest, in which I came 3rd place, I created a 20:1 scale model made of cardboard, transparences and M3 foils. Foil drawings were created in Illus-trator and cut with a foil cutter machine.

Ministry of Justice, Offenbach 2008

Architectual Model - Drawings and CNC Perspex Milling - Speedo Headquaters Nottingham

Developing an idea for an outside sculpture on a budget of £20,000. Shortlisted idea was a sculpture reminiscent of as-cending ladders and a pool made of highly polished galvani-sed steel and LED strips. Project included technical drawing, a 20:1 cardboard model including LED wiring (solding), perspex CNC cut, material research and calculation, visiting the buil-ding site, discussing realisation with contractors and design companies.

Speedo Headquaters Nottingham, 2011

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PAPER WORKPaper Mock-up of a winding stairpaper, wooden sticks, forex cardboard, pins; 450 cm (h) x 100 cm (diameter)

A site-specific sculpture for the exhibition „Paradise Found“. This very fragile non-walkable stair-case stands for all desires we aspire to fulfill. The meticulus technical drawing and the subse-queunt execution included a narrowing of the individual steps to create a spiral which elevated to 4.5 metres. The whole structure is supported by one central pole which holds the delicate components together, without the use of nails, screws or glue. Benrath Castle, Düsseldorf 2008

Denis Holland Portrait Competitionpaper strips, wooden box, PVA, gloss sprey, 107 x 80 x 6 cm

Techical Process:Shortlisted Portrait was created with my own technique of working with co-loured paper strips. Hundreds of small paper strips, individually cut, are as-sembled like brush strokes one by one as a collage. The paperstrips continue over the 6 cm wide edges to create a 3 dimentional object.

Cissy Chu Common Room, UCL 2011Special Guest: HRH Princess Anne Royal

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Paper weights - Heavy weightsresin casting, objects, text, Ø15 cm

To point out overlooked conflicts happening at the same time as the Iraq War in 2003 I‘ve created nine paper weights made of resin and depicted every other conflict on the back side. The objects were presented on a floating neon colored model landscape. Centres of conflicts: Kashmir, Israel/Palestine, Georgia, Co-lombia, Ivory Coast, Congo, Sudan, Iraq, Chechen Republic.

Techical Process:Casting 5 layers of resin, placing printed resin resistant maps with text, placing tanks, weapons, air planes. After hardening sanding and polishing. Building / painting a landscape table to present the paperweights.

College of Art and Design Offenbach

RESIN CASTING

MOULD MAKING / RUBBER / ICE

film still of the beginning

film still 1:18 min

Disappearing Landscape Video, SD 2:15 min

One of my most challenging video works, shot in one single take. A simplified image of a landscape made of modeled and coloured ice melts down in a dramatic motion. This act evokes an image of an Armageddon. This video work is a contemporary take on landscape and its representation and was exhibited together with an original etching by William Turner, of which my piece was a response to.

Techical Process:1. Drawing of a simplified landscape with mountains, house, lake, sun.2. Carving a template in wood based on that image.3. Making a rubber cast of the wood board in several layers.4. Filling the form with colored water to freeze.5. Setting up a wood box with a hole and a camera above.6. Placing frozen ladscape into a exact shooting position.7. Pouring hot water carefully and invisibly on the side of the wood box.8. Shooting the melting process in real time in one take.

Moreover, Strang Print Art Collection, UCL London 2011JungArt Berlin, Berlin 2011Moving Image, OXO Tower Wharf, London 2013film still 2:11 min

PLASTER CASTING / CHINA

Ceramics - Tile making, Object casting and firingplaster, clay, china, glaze, kiln firing

Techical Process:Creating plaster cast forms for china clay round tiles. Using 8 different techniques such as decals, silk printing, painting, drawing, scratching, slipping, etc. to design the tiles. Firing about 80 individual tiles on different temperatures relating to the color scheme and design material. Finishing them with a fired high gloss glaze.College of Art Bergen, Norway 2005

Plasted cast form made from a hand carved wooden fence slat

VENUE DRESSINGFringe! Art and Film Festival London 2014

Developing a queer themed venue, including decoration of the screening hall, entrance, bar and gallery space. Material research and shopping, budget ma-nagement, bunting stapling, sign making, blowing up balloons and following the branding color scheme.20 metres of fabric needed to be attached to a wall. 4 assistants helped me to create this site-specific decoration.

In addition I built a Neon sign for the final Party, Club “Totally”. Inside a card-board box are three neon glowing wires installed, stiched through the surface.

Rose Lipman Building, De Bouvoir, London, 2014

Skyfall on Mars

Darkness and Isolation - Artist Residency undertaken for research based on the Mars One Mission. Building an Outdoor Exploration Capsule, a Martian astronaut costume and useful tools were the first stages for a journey on the Isle of Skye, known for its spectacular rock formation, which resulted in analogue photographs using ink colored filters over of the camera lens.

Scottish Sclupture Workshop, Lumsden 2014

MIXED MATERIALS / COSTUMES

Universes6 videos SD, vertical format 16:9 Various abstracted interpretations of parallel universes. The analog technique follows the motion of floating objects, such as pencils or ping-pong balls, on colored liquids. The choreographies repre-sent hypothetical self-contained separate realities co-existing with our own.

Various Exhibitions, such as Pavilion East, Design Festival London 2013

film still / glitter pencils on milk film still / pompons, radiator panelling, plastic hooks, on water, milk and black ink

film still / pingpong balls, styrofoam, christ-mas balls on beetroof juice

film still / ink in milk, pingpong balls, radiator panelling on milk

LIQUIDS