Cate Wind

www.catewind.com

born in Durban, South Africa
Lives and works in Berlin

Cate Wind creates sculptures and installations that reveal correlations between modern knowledge and ancient systems of belief. Trained in the craftsmanship of glass, traditional painting, and visual communication, Wind assembles refined materials such as metal, glass, or resin with discarded found objects including gearwheels, vintage herbariums, or religious textiles.

During her formative childhood in South Africa she developed a fascination with naturopathic medicine, voodoo, and ceremonial rituals. Energy and its transformation are constant topics in her work. Cate creates hybrid sculptures in which her interest in quantum mechanics and metaphysics as well as her research of folk medicine, ancient symbols and alternative healing practices interlock.

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Vita

born in Durban, South Africa
lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION
2019 European Cultural Academy, Venice

2017 Berlin Art Institute

1987 Fachhochschule Aachen, Visual Communication

1983 Training glass and porcelain painter, Staatliche Glasfachschule Rheinbach

AWARDS AND PRIZES
2008 Vision Unternehmerinnenpreis of IHK

1993 Special prize of ADITEC GmbH Aachener Demonstrationslabors für integrierte Produktionstechnik

Exhibitions

2020
»Planet B«, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Groupexhibition

»die neuen«, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen, Groupexhibition

2019
»Jubiläumsausstellung 70 Jahre«, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen, Groupexhibition

2017
»u.A.w.g.«, Berlin Art Institute, Groupexhibition

1993
»Mensch im Mittelpunkt moderner Produktionstechnik« , ADITEC GmbH Aachener Demonstrationslabors für integrierte Produktionstechnik, Groupexhibition

1992
»Erste Euregionale Sommer Akademie«, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Groupexhibition

1991
»Die anderen Zehn«, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Groupexhibition

Publications

Sorry to the flowers

Laboratory glassware, head massage, crown glass. Installation, growing size. Flower meadow, delicate, light, fragile, domino effect, dry, happiness.⁠ Irretrievable, Entschuldigung.⁠
Cate Wind, Mixed Media, Glass

Egoism

Compass, many, metal, rust Installation, growing size Rotate around one's own axis.⁠ Infinity with place for hope⁠ Defense, aggression, defense, ego, weapon.⁠ Hope.⁠
Cate Wind, Metal, Installation

Samsara

Vases, many, silver Installation, growing size Reincarnation. Body as vessel, change of perspective. Endless depth, darkness. Past is concealed. All is one.
Cate Wind, Metal, Mixed Media