About Kateřina Komm

Kateřina Komm was born in Prague. She followed various international art courses, where she developed her career as a sculptor. Komm currently works as an assistant at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the Atelier of Figurative Sculpture and Metal. She is also working on her PhD research, in which she focuses on the interaction between sculpture and memory.

Although the emphasis in her work is strongly on monumental sculptures executed in plaster and concrete, she also experiments with polaroid photography. In terms of content, Komm’s work shows similarities with that of Ida Ekblad. Both artists intend to stack, assemble, and continuously transform a multitude of visual and textual objects, experiences, memories or impressions from different places, times, and spaces. The inspiration for Komm’s works can arise from a specific subject such as an artwork or a building, but it can also form from an intangible impression or experience.

Her concrete work Put your head on her lap was on display in 2022 at the Czech Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, where an exhibition was organized on the theme of a local fairy tale About the soldier, the blacksmith’s son. This metaphorical story tells the tale of a boy who returns home after ten years of service to find that his father has passed, and his scheming sister has pocketed the inheritance. The penniless son has a road full of obstacles to free the king’s daughter from the hands of evil. He is assisted in his quest by knights transformed into animals in the form of a wolf, a bear, and a lion. The sculpture by Kateřina Komm refers to the moment when the princess recognizes her bridegroom from the animal’s wounds. In addition to the reference of the fairy tale, the exhibition also focused on the notion of “space memory,” where the intertwining between individual and historical memory converges. These different aspects of transformation and the intangibility of memory fit perfectly within Komm’s oeuvre.