Katharina Fitz primarily works in the fields of sculpture and installation, drawing inspiration from industrial processes, architecture, and the hidden aspects of making.

Her practice often begins with an exploration of the spaces that surround us. This involves examining the infrastructures that connect and support, uncovering historical features unique to a place, or considering how people physically engage with their environment through process and motion. Fitz is also drawn to elements that are unseen, hidden, stripped away, or overlooked. These might include moulds and jigs that come to life during the making process, overspills of materials, seamlines of casts, or the traces left behind in acts of doing and undoing. They are usually seen as by-products and discarded, whereas Fitz presents them as objects in their own right, drawing the viewer into an exploration of the work.

She question the hierarchy and value of objects in a mass-produced, slick, and highly mechanised world, embracing imperfection, the residual and its dusty tones. Turning, pushing, pulling, ramming, peeling and dragging form part of her visual vocabulary, revealing the energy and expressive qualities of materials. Her sculptures mediate between studio and gallery atmosphere, sharing glimpses of the behind the scenes of construction. She works with texture, weight and the unadulterated hues of materials such as earthy ceramic, plaster, natural latex, unpainted wood and rusty steel.

Ultimately, Fitz’s work explores how we perceive and understand the world around us, offering a new reading of how it could be animated, changed, or extended into something else.

Her photographic work looks at issues surrounding the changes, phenomena and structures that we find within the city and how they affect our coexistance within urban space.