About

Kathrin Böhm works as an artist and organiser across interdependent realms of cultural production, including the art world. Her organisational and spatial work supports collective forms of (re-)producing public space, reclaiming the economy for more-than-capitalist futures, and enabling a new trans-localism that acknowledges the rural. As a researcher, she contributes to the broader topics of New Economies, Cultural Democracy, Usership of Art and Commons-based World Building.

Kathrin is a founding member of the international artist initiative Myvillages (since 2003), the art and architecture collective Public Works (active 1999 - 2012), and the art-led action group Keep it Complex – Make it Clear (2016–2020).

She initiated the Haystacks series (2013), community arts enterprise Company Drinks (2014), the Centre for Plausible Economies together with Kuba Szreder (2018) and Myvillages’ Rural School of Economics together with Wapke Feenstra (2020). **

Kathrin has expanded the terms of socially engaged art practice through a wide range of co-produced, complex organisational, spatial, visual, and economic forms, which often begin with familiar everyday forms such as a shop, a wallpaper, or a drink.

In 2020, Kathrin paused initiating new projects, and began a process of “composting” her work to date, in order to generate “fertiliser” for evolving long-term, collective, and commons-based infrastructures she is involved with. She currently holds an art professorship at the Economics Department/Alanus University, and is a member of the Community Economies Institute.

Kathrin continues to describe herself as an artist and considers herself local to both Hackney (east London, UK) and Höfen (Upper Franconia, DE).

The preferred spelling of Kathrin’s surname is “Böhm” – variants such as “Bohm” or “Boehm” are used online when the “ö” is not available or recognised.

** By clicking the underlined names (coloured and non-coloured), you go to a list of works documented on this website. External weblinks are embedded there.