Bio Katrin Dekoninck

Katrin Dekoninck (° 1971, Belgium, Mol) is a visual artist who puts human existence at the heart of her oeuvre. Her art is characterized by a deep sensitivity and an ability to depict complex human feelings.

After a vocational education in Antwerp and Italy, followed by a specialization in Montana City (USA), Dekoninck has been drawing and modeling — for a decade now - labour-intensive, monumental sculptures and installations in stoneware clay.
She has become a true master at handling this material. Over the past eight years, bronze has also become part of her oeuvre.

Katrin exhibits both at home and abroad. She has won several art competitions and has been selected for several prestigious exhibitions in the art world. 

A sample of her career:

•    Selected for X=10c (Existence), Lab 2: a 6-month working period, culminating in a group exhibition at the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent (2006) 
•    Selected for the Canvas Collection, resulting in an exhibition at the BOZAR Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels (2008) 
•    Selected as laureate by a/o Jan Hoet for the Digikunst expo at FOMA in Antwerp, organised by 'Kunst in Huis' (2009) 
•    She participated three times in the prestigious arts festival Watou where she exhibited, a/o, with other well-known artists such as Jan Fabre, Panamarenko, Luc Tuymans and Rinus Van de Velde (2015, 2017, 2018) 
•    The renowned poet/writer Bernard Dewulf wrote a poem to accompany her work for the Watou 2018 Arts Festival. Her sculpture was chosen as the campaign image for the exhibition 'Consolation and Desire'. 
•    In 2017: publication of the art book Breath about her work, combined with poems by Steven Van Der Heyden, published by Stichting Kunstboek 
•    She created public works of art for the municipalities Machelen and Lommel (2022 and 2006). 
•    She collaborated with the Ballet of Flanders for Verdi's Opera Macbeth in Ghent and Antwerp: photos of her sculptures were shown in the programme brochure (2019) 
•    Her sculpture of a reading woman was chosen by VRT as a gift for TV journalist Martine Tanghe. During Martine's last newsreel, she received the language award Grand Prize Jan Wauters along with the artwork (2020) 
•    In 2024, she launched a major socio-cultural project: ‘Break your shield!’, involving 1800 young people and hundreds of volunteers in this art project to make vulnerability among young people a topic of discussion in schools. 

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