NIKOS is Katinka Bock’s first solo exhibition in China. It features almost 30 pieces of her photographic works since 2015, along with newly commissioned sculptures produced specifically for this exhibition.

Most of Bock’s photographic works were taken in domestic, urban or natural environments, demonstrating the artist’s ’sculptural view’ on objects, spaces, bodies and life. Her creative drive for image-making often stems from keen observations of the characteristics of forms or relationships. Like her sculptures, Bock’s photography is spontaneous, focused on capturing the vitality of the world, and freeing images from excessive control or overly intensive objectives. At the same time, Bock always conceives her exhibitions based on the idea of space, fostering interactions and couplets between both mental and physical ones.

By stimulating the potential of materials, found objects and images, she evokes emotions and contemplation in the audience.

The exhibition is curated by Damien Zhang, director of Aranya Art Center, and supported by Galerie Jocelyn Wolff and Ambassade de France en Chine as part of the ’Croisement 60’ programme.