Katja Mater practice focuses on the parameters of photography and film from a meta-perspective, using them as non-transparent media. By creating hybrids between different optical media, installation and performance she documents something that often is positioned beyond our human ability to see. Interested in revealing a different or alternative (experience of) reality through capturing the areas where optical media hardly behave like the human eye, Mater mediates between time, space, perception and our understanding of them, she records events that simultaneously can and cannot be – holding midway between information and interpretatio

Katja Mater’s (*1979 in Hoorn/The Netherlands, lives and works in Brussels and Amsterdam) 

Her most recent solo exhibitions include Centraal Museum, Utrecht at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, Bunnik (2025); FOMU, Antwerp (2025); Manifold Books, Amsterdam (2024); LambdaLambdaLambda2, Prishtina (2023); Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam (2020, 2018); P///// AKT, Amsterdam (2019); Chapelle de la Trinité, Cléguérec (2018); Narva Art Residency, Narva (2018). 

She participated in group exhibitions such as 10th Biennal of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Dhondt-Dhaenens, and Museum van Deinze, Belgium (upcoming); Rae Galerii, Saaremaa (upcoming); Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (upcoming); Huidenclub, Rotterdam (2026); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (2026); Vilvoorde, Machelen, Brussels (2024); Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2024); KBK, Brussels (2024); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2024); Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich (2024); Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen (2024); Contour 10 Biennal, Machelen (2023); LambdaLambdaLambda2, Prishtina (2023); De Studio, Antwerp (2022); MuHKA, Antwerp (2022), Drawing Centre Diepenheim, Diepenheim (2022); Riga Photography Biennial, Riga (2022); BARBARA SEILER GALERIE, Zürich (2022); The Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (2022); Konstmuseum, Västerås (2021); Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf (2021); Museum M, Leuven (2021); Centre de la Gravure et l’imprimerie, La Louvière (2021); De Warande, Turnhout (2021); Västerås konstmuseum, Västerås (2021); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020, 2017); Loods 12, Wetteren (2019).