ABOUT ME

What excites me:
Truth, honesty, wind in trees, bodies at ease, transformation, art, liberation, fabric, freedom, beauty, co-creation, ideas, friendship, the bigger picture.

What annoys me:
Superficiality, big egos, hidden agendas, cycling in rain, closed minds, extinction, rushed mornings, overpowering aftershave.

A woman with curly brown hair wearing a red sweater, smiling, standing in front of a green background.

Katrin Mountain is a sculptor and flag maker with a background in tailoring and fashion. Best known for her large scale flag and banner installations in the public realm, she also uses fabric to create sculptures, wall hangings and cut-paintings.

“In my art I work mainly with fabric, drawing and deconstruction. I like to explore subversion, resistance and transcendence as human experiences. My deepest aim is to find forms that embody the complexity and vulnerability of the human experience.
In that respect, textiles are very intimate and relatable materials as our human bodies are in touch with them most of the time.”

Katrin graduated with a MFA Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London and from Weißensee Art School, Berlin. She was a guest student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris and the Städelschule Frankfurt while working in the studios of Karin Sander and Wiebke Siem in Berlin and later Laura Ford and Andrew Sabin in London.

Her work has been shown internationally, including the Istanbul Biennale, Meijer Gardens in Michigan US, the German National Bank, the Whitstable Biennale and more. She has received the Deutsche Bank Art Award, Arts Council England Funding and was commissioned by Jersey Heritage, Metal Southend and others.

She is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and a Cusanuswerk alumni. 

She lives with her family on the South Coast of England.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in the 70’s in Bavaria, Southern Germany.

A woman with curly hair wearing a sleeveless orange top and denim shorts, kneeling on a wooden floor, holding a large sheet of colored paper in front of her. The workspace has a messy wooden table with art supplies, and sunlight coming through a window.

  • 2016
    Arts Council England Grant for the Arts.

    For the installation Cut From The Same Cloth in the public realm. 11 big banner flags for ESTUARY 2016 Arts Festival in Gravesend.

    Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

    2013
    Deutsche Bank Award for Fine Art, London.

    For the radio soap Affairs. Produced in collaboration with Marie von Heyl.

    2012
    Chelsea Arts Club Award, London.

    With the feminist collective Berta Koch.

    2010
    Art Award of the German National Bank, Frankfurt am Main. Solo show.

    2006-2012
    Scholarship from Cusanuswerk. Art specific carrier advancement scholarship during my academic education in Berlin and London.

    2007
    Erasmus/Sokrates Scholarship for an exchange year with the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

    2007 - 2008
    Women’s Career Advancement Mentoring Programme, financed by the German Ministry of Culture and Research and Cusanuswerk. Mentor: Judith Hopf.

    2004
    Art in Public Award for an architectural artwork for a new building in Berlin.

  • 2011 - 2013
    MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

    2002 - 2009
    MFA Fine Arts / Sculpture at Weissensee Artschool Berlin. Meisterschülerin of Inge Mahn.

    Guest student Fine Art at Ècole des Beaux-Arts Paris.

    Guest student Fine Art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main.

  • 2025

    Curtains for sad bunker windows, flag installation for Elizabeth Castle, commissioned by Jersey Heritage

    Open Art Folkestone, The Garden shed exhibition

    2024
    Blowing Against The Wind - Elizabeth Castle, Jersey. Installation of large scale banners, commissioned by Jersey Heritage.

    Open Art Folkestone - The Garden Shed exhibition.

    2022
    Garden City Manifesto Banners, Whitstable Biennale, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable.

    2021
    Brotzeit am Strand (bread and butter on the beach), performative event in collaboration with Monya Pletsch as The German Embassy, Folkestone beach.

    2020
    Feeding the Fire, virtual fire ritual organised by Perform Istanbul for stay home/stay live. In collaboration with Sjoukje Gummels.

    One For All - Boob Cape. Performative cape for Take Up Space Feminist Festival organised by the Folkestone Women’s Forum.

    2019
    Cut From The Same Cloth installation of 8 big banner flags in the public realm for SALT - Festival of the sea, Folkestone.

    Commission of Smuggling Flag for Art in Romney Marsh, St. George, Ivychurch.

    2018
    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at St. John's Church, Upper Norwood, London during the Festival Of Peace.

    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at St. Peter Church, Vauxhall, London during Rhythm Village Festival.

    Cut From The Same Cloth Flags at The Portico Gallery, West Norwood, London.

    2016
    Cut From The Same Cloth, installation of 11 big banner flags in the public realm for Estuary ’16

    Arts Festival, Gravesend. Supported by The Arts Council England, METAL Southend and Gravesham Council.

    2015
    Baby break

    2014
    Highly Recommended - Emerging Sculptors at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

    Sonntag London - Sonntag is a touring Berlin-based project space. Pop-up solo show in a private home in Peckham, London.

    Paragraph - Welcome to InDependence, in collaboration with Berta Koch Collective, The Rag Factory, London.

    2013
    The Pool Exhibition, Final Show, Goldsmiths College, London.

    2012
    Ritual IV, Rough Luxe Hotel Ritual, London. With Berta Koch, Feminist Collective.

    Ritual II, St James Hatcham Church, London. With Berta Koch, Feminist Collective.

    2011
    Art Award of the German National Bank, Katrin Albrecht solo show at the German National Bank, Frankfurt am Main.

    Things that never happen, Group show, Skalitzer 104_Gallery, Berlin.

    Pre-/De- form me, Group show, Pfefferberg, Berlin.

    2010
    Ganze / Teile, group show, Schuckert Höfe, Berlin.

    LOVEBOAT, group show, Kunstverein Essen, Essen.

    Shortly before the king is crowned, with Irene Pätzug, Gallerie am Plan, Pirna.

    2009
    Showing, Audio tour through Berlin by Karin Sander, Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin.

    Thriller at Jennyfair, Jennyfair project space, Vienna.

    Masters show, Uferhallen Wedding, Berlin.

    Mahn-o-Mahn, Emerson Gallery, Berlin

    I have hope anyway, group show, Umspannwerk Humboldt, Berlin.

    2008
    Concepts of Love, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

    E-LOCALE, Kunstverein Schwerin, Schwerin.

    Paris-Berlin Festival, Ministry for recreation, Berlin and BNP Paribas, Paris.

    2007
    Serendipity, group show, Flottmannhallen, Herne.

    2006
    LOKALE, performative interventions in public spaces and exhibition at Museum Schwerin, Schwerin.

    2005
    Lost in Translation, 9th Istanbul Biennial, 'mysafir - make yourself an artist friend in reality', collective performance project, Istanbul.

  • 2023
    Margarine Mayhem. Sculpture-making workshop for children. Casting plaster sculptures with margarine moulds.

    2022
    3 Manifesto Writing and Banner Making Workshops at North Kent College (Sixth Form), Ebbsfleet Academy Secondary School, and with the local community.

    Designing and creating 3 big banners with ideas for the new public park at Ebbsfleet Garden City.

    2021
    3 Power Sculpture Workshops during Folkestone Triennial for Creative Folkestone. For Primary and Secondary School children and a community family drop-in workshop.

    Inspired by African animistic power objects. Sculpture making with clay, rubber and small personal objects.

    2020
    Margarine Mayhem, online sculpture-making workshop for Creative Folkestone. Casting plaster sculptures with margarine moulds.

    2019
    Compost Revolution workshop for Fringe Folkestone at The Quarterhouse Folkestone. Potato printing climate strike symbols on items for demonstrations and marches.

    2018
    Ring My Bell! Flag making workshop for Creative Folkestone at Block 67, Folkestone.

    2017
    Subversive Banner making workshop at Earlscliffe College Folkestone.

    2016
    Subversive Flag making workshop for Metal Southend during the Estuary 16 Art Festival in Gravesend. Workshop onboard LV21 Lightvessel.

    Pocahontas Parade Flag making workshops in six Primary and Secondary schools in Gravesend. Research into colonial history and creation of individual hand waving flags with native American symbols for the Pocahontas parade in Gravesend.