Kathrin Böhm

Artist and Cultural Organiser

Centre for Plausible Economies c/o Company Drinks

Greater London, UK

Other Affiliations

Kathrin Böhm is a London based artist, and her work is operating in and outside of the art world, practicing in the real economy and connecting different trans-local communities. Main interests in her work are the collective (re-)production of public space, trade as public realm and the everyday as a starting point for culture.

Kathrin is the founder and co-founder of a number of organisations and initiatives, including the cultural enterprise Company Drinks, the Centre for Plausible Economies (together with Kuba Szreder), International Foundation Myvillages and the Rural School of Economics (together with Wapke Feenstra), the art and architecture office Public Works, and the UNO INO ooperative for sustainable business transformation.

Degrees

MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London

Fine Art and Art Pedagogy, Academy of Fine Art, Nuremberg, Germany

Research Interests

I contribute as a researcher to the wider topics of New Economy, Usership of Art and the Production of Public Space.

My work takes place through collaborations and the co-production of culture and change within everyday situations, be it a business, a village or an urban neighbourhood. The production of culture is an everyday activity and exists everywhere. The way we do things together, constitutes the spaces and economy we want to have. My motto is to think things in the making, and my emphasis is on translating ideas for a better future into the everyday..

Links

Kathrin's Website

Company Drinks Website

Rural School of Economics Website

Contact Information

kathrin@myvillages.org

kathrin@companydrinks.info

Publications

Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life

This volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and breadth by producing complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms.

Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art

Icebergian Economies of Contemporary Art offers reflections on art and economy, stimulated by J.K. Gibson-Graham’s representation of the economy as an iceberg. Themes include visible/invisible; blue line or the surface; the gloss over the dark matter; me versus the many; and art world/s.

An online version of the book is available here. The book was a contribution to a larger project, Cyber-PiraMMMida, which explores the pyramidal spectres and structures which haunt the worlds of architecture, art, academia and the everyday.

For more on representations of the economy as an iceberg, click here.

The Rural

An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production.

Learn to Act

The book is titled Learn to Act, because that’s what we set out to do. The title is a clear proclamation towards a form of learning which is both an act of commoning and a moment in which knowledge becomes relative, collective and applied. Learn to Act is about the near future, how to act, and how to support each other.

Trade as Public Realm / Economy as Public Space

As part of Your Money or Your Life: Feminist Perspectives on Economy
Edited by Bonnie Fortune and Lise Skou

This series of short essays presents research, ideas, and proposals from four scholars and artists on contemporary life lived in the throes of global capitalism. The four women authors are responsible for creative opinions and approaches as to how we, as a culture, might come to inhabit different economic realities.

Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks

Book outlining the ideas and ambitions behind Company Drinks.