Biography
Born in 1961 in Est Berlin, Germany.
Lives and works in Berlin.
In Kata Unger’s tapestries, codes and chaos are intertwined. The woven fabric is the vehicle for a rich imagery, reminiscent of medieval worlds, where imaginary beings and humans coexist. Her approach is punk, rebel, and critical: words like slogans intrude on scenes where the beings try to float. Raft of Medusa or Noah’s Ark— struggle, sex, pain, and game are all brought together on shifting grounds or in the turbulences of a maelstrom. A struggle between romantic dreaming and bumpy illusions is carried by a delicate palette. Through the slow and fastidious process of jacquard weaving, Kata Unger patiently reflects on the world, her gaze both looking straight ahead and back.
Some artworks
Exhibitions
There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag
[Group show]
22.05.2026 – 18.07.2026
Drawing as much from pop culture references as from mythological figures, the works brought together in this exhibition weave a sort of trans-dimensional and trans-temporal narrative that is in a state of perpetual metamorphosis. Shady characters, transfigured bodies, organic flesh, and raw gestures unfold throughout the exhibition like ghosts; a spectacle that reveals both the fragility and the flexibility of time, There’s a Man in a Smiling Bag seeks to open a breach—an anarchic space-time where systems collapse and new meanings emerge.
Tribes
Marlon Wobst
03.11.2023 – 13.01.2024
They are running, skipping, falling, they are looking at each other, playing with each other, they are making love or doing nothing at all—but they are always together. The concept of tribe —the group, the collective— is at the core of Marlon Wobst’s most recent work. Marlon Wobst is sensitive to the present and his own time: he represents what he lives and what he sees. His aim is first one of a detective/researcher/ His agenda is that of a researcher, investigating human beings, for human beings.
