CATHERINE ROSE EVANS is an Australian artist and writer. Born on unceded Ngunnawal land, now living in Berlin, she examines the points where lived experience intersects with the geological and the political.
Initially trained in science, and then photography, her work is characterised by a material intimacy that subverts the utility of everyday materials such as rocks and carpet to give unexpected shifts in our perception of light, weight, scale and balance. Working across installation, sculpture, photography and text, her works draw deeply from the history of science, language, and our colonial inheritance, pivoting at the point where scales collide. Read more about her work in Berlin Art Link, or Art Guide Australia.
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Naarm/Melbourne, she was recipient of a VCA Graduate Mentorship (2013) and Georges Mora Fellowship (2017). She has exhibited widely, most recently her work Standing Stone won first prize in the 2020 Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Berlin. She was a 2022 artist in residence at MASSMoCA, Massachusetts US, and a participant in the inaugural Berlinklusion artist residency program, UNBOUND, Berlin DE.
Atelierhaus Adlershof, Berlin DE
catherine.rose.evans [at] gmail.com
2011, Bachelor of Fine Arts (with first class Honours), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne AU
2005, Bachelor of Science/Asian Studies (Specialist), Australian National University, Canberra AU
2023, Research Grant (Recherchestipendium), Senate of Berlin, Berlin DE
2021, INITIAL Special Grant (Sonderstipendium INITIAL), Akademie der Künste, Berlin DE
2021, Award of Berlin studio sponsorship (Berliner Atelierfoerderung), bkk Berlin and Berlin Senate, Berlin DE
2020, first prize winner, Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Berlin DE
2020, Kunstförderung 48 h Neukölln, Fachbereich Kultur von Neukölln, Berlin DE
2018, Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria and Georges Mora Foundation, Melbourne AU
2017, Georges Mora Fellowship, Melbourne AU
2013, VCA Graduate Mentorship (with Susan Jacobs), Victorian College of the Arts in partnership
with Arts Victoria, Melbourne AU
2013, Finalist, Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne AU
2013, Runner Up, Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize, Williamstown Literary Festival, Melbourne AU
2012, ArtStart, Australia Council for the Arts, AU
2011, Finalist, Substation Contemporary Art Prize, The Substation, Melbourne AU
2011, Substation Gallery Exhibition Prize, VCA Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne AU
2010, National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award, VCA Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne AU
2010, Alliance Française Award, VCA Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne AU
2007, Finalist, Olive Cotton Prize for Portraiture, Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah AU
2022-23, UNBOUND residency, Berlinklusion, Berlin DE >>
2022, Artist Residency for Tender, initiated by A Published Event, Studios, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts US
2021, Artist Residency, Kunsthalle Below (KHB), Below DE
2020, Artist residency, DIEresidenz, Die, FR
2015-16, Artist in Residence, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne AU
2014, PICTURE BERLIN hybrid arts residency, Berlin DE
Solo and Collaborative
2021, Mountain Mother (with Piotr Pietrus, curated by Conny Becker), Archaeological Museum of Die and Diois, Die, FR
2021, Exploded View, PhotoAccess, Canberra AU (C)
2020, Mountain Mother (with Piotr Pietrus), DIEResidenz, Die, FR
2019, Memory Work, tête, Berlin DE
2017, Mammalia (with Piotr Pietrus), tête, Berlin DE
2016, Die Erde, die Achse, Galerie Asterisk* Berlin DE
2014, Standing Stone, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne AU (C)
2013, Batholith, Knight St Art Space, Footscray AU (C)
2013, Bird Hide and Bunker (with Caroline Phillips), M16 Artspace, Canberra AU (C)
2012, Bedrock, Rae and Bennett Gallery, Melbourne AU
2012, Bird Hide and Bunker (with Caroline Phillips), Seventh Gallery, Melbourne AU (C)
2011, Swan Song, George Paton Gallery, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne AU (C)
Curated Exhibitions
2025, A dance for reading aloud (EMOP Berlin), Galerie Ersteerste, Berlin DE
2025, From the Hidden Gardens (curated by Saeed Foroghi), Axel Obiger, Berlin DE
2024, FROG CITY (curated by Georg Scherlin), Freilichtbühne Weißensee, Berlin DE
2024, Y, loop raum für aktuelle kunst B-Part, Berlin DE
2024, Adler für alle – Kunst im Stadtraum Adlershof, Galerie Alte Schule Adlershof, Berlin DE
2024, The Pool: pilote contemporary + Galerie Monica Ruppert, Culterim Gallery, Berlin DE
2023-24, Carpet Mapping (curated by Sarah Crowe & Rebekka Liebmann), Schloß Britz, Berlin DE
2023-24, To/From: between perception and understanding, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin DE
2023, The Space Between (curated by Dr Kate Brehme and Kirstin Broussard of Berlinklusion), CLB Berlin DE
2023, Wie die Linien einer Hand, geschrieben in die Straßenränder, Villa Heike, Berlin DE
2023, Past & Present: 15 years of Der Greif, Pavilion 333 of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich DE
2023, Art in the Context of Endangered Languages, Salon Sophie Charlotte 2023, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Berlin DE
2023, Keep Your Eyes Peeled VIII, AFF Galerie, Berlin DE
2023, Circles (curated by Thomas Elsen in the framework of the European Month of Photography/EMOP), Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin DE
2022, Room 26 Discrete Notions Exhibition Series 18 #12, New Haven, US
2022, Stadtgarten Salvisberg (curated by Christof Zwiener), Johanisberger Str. 32, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin DE (C)
2022, Troubling Time (curated by s-l-i-c-e), Tanzhalle Wieseburg, Berlin DE (C)
2022, Anonymous Drawings (curated by Anke Becker), Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin DE
2022, Silent Spring (curated by Lena Fließbach), Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin DE
2021, First International Festival of Manuports, Kunsthalle Kohta, Helsinki FI
2021, Nothing’s gonna change my world, raum www (Daniel Hahn & Johannes Mundinger) at Gr_und, Berlin DE (C)
2021, PINK PANIK (curated by Barbara Duisberg & Rebekka Liebmann), Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin DE
2021, Breeze and Storm, (curated by Constanze Schweda) 48 Stunden Neukölln, SubTei, Berlin DE
2021, Biscuit, p145, Berlin DE
2020, Stadt findet Kunst, Berlin DE
2020, pilote : Unter Linden, SubTei, Berlin DE
2020, Collapse (curated by Martin Steffens and Rebekka Liebmann), main exhibition of 48 Stunden Neukölln, Umspanwerk Neukölln, Berlin DE
2020, Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2020, exhibition of the nominated artists, Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin DE
2019, RAUMANEIGNUNG (curated by Conny Becker), Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin DE (C)
2019, Jack’s Reloaded: Material as Memory (curated by Eugene Perepletchikov & Georgia Nowak), Melbourne AU (C)
2018, Significant Velocities (curated by Andrew Tetzlaff), RMIT Project Space, Melbourne AU (C)
2018, KLEISTER - BODIES (curated by Kaetha), Görlitzer Park, Berlin DE
2018, Die Menge des Lichts, Druckwerkstatt im Kulturwerk des BBK, Berlin DE
2018, Family of No Man, Cosmos-Arles Books, Arles FR
2018, 10 Years, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin DE
2017, Thousand Year Stare (curated by Sam Leach), Chamber, Melbourne AU
2017, The Presence of Absence (curated by Martin Steffens and Susann Kramer), Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin DE
2017, 9x5 Now Exhibition, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne AU
2016, Shadow Sites (curated by Frances Wilkinson and Samantha McCulloch), Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne AU (C)
2016, Heavy Majestic (curated by Jake Treacy), Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne AU (C)
2016, HEAVY FORMS (curated by Ace Wagstaff), Rubicon ARI, Melbourne AU
2015, Unintended Refrains (curated by Sandra Bridie), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne AU (C)
2015, Temporality: A photography exhibition (curated by Jessica Tamar Snir), The Attic Gallery, Melbourne AU
2015, f generation: feminism, art, progressions (curated by Caroline Phillips, Dr Juliette Peers & Veronica Caven Aldous), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne AU
2014, Ground Work (curated by Manuel Wischnewski), Lehrter Siebzehn, Berlin DE (C)
2014, OPENHAUS, Centre for Art and Urbanistics ZK/U, Berlin DE
2014, Found Initiative (curated by Kirsty Hulm), Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne AU
2014, West Projections (with Hoang Tran Nguyen, curated by Chantal Wynter), Footscray, Melbourne AU
2014, DUMMY (curated by Madé Spencer-Castle and Alice Mathieu), Mailbox Art Space, Melbourne AU
2013, Ensphere (curated by Emma Hamilton), Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne AU
2012 – 2013, Future Now (curated by Jessica Bridgfoot), The Substation, Newport – then touring regional Victoria – Castlemaine ICU (2012), Cowwarr Arts Space, Gippsland (2013), B1 Ballarat Art Space, Ballarat (2013) AU (C)
2012, Mortality (curated by Adele Macer, BLINDSIDE), Art Melbourne, Exhibition Building, Melbourne AU (C)
2012, Debut VIII (curated by Adele Macer and Shae Nagorcka), BLINDSIDE, Melbourne AU
2011, Interior Architecture (curated by Caroline Phillips), La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo AU (C)
2011, 2010 VCA Graduates Award Exhibition, Alliance Française, Melbourne AU (C)
2010, The Envelope: The Feminist Salon Residency, West Wing (through West Space), Melbourne AU
2010, Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Gertrude Street, Melbourne AU
2023, Hauenstein, Hanno, ‘Between Interpretation and Documentation,’ catalogue text for Carpet Mapping, curated by Sarah Crowe and Rebekka Liebmann, Schloß Britz, Berlin DE
2023, ROCK, Valentine Editions, UK >>
2021, Nothing’s gonna change my world, exhibition catalogue, raum www, Berlin DE, 13.8.21 >>
2021, Woodward, Margaret, ‘Interfering with the Evidence,’ catalogue essay for Exploded View, Photoaccess, Canberra AU, 15.7.21 >>
2021, Rope, Brian, ‘Chris Bowes, Catherine Evans and Ben Rak's shows caricature photos,’ exhibition review, The Canberra Times, Canberra AU, 2.8.21 >>
2021, Fließbach, Lena, exhibition text for Biscuit (de), P145, Berlin DE, 19.02.21 >>
2021, Paenhuysen, An, ‘Copper by Catherine Evans,’ AAAAA PPPPP, Berlin DE, 29.01.21 >>
2020, Caroll Harris, Hannah Rose, ‘Material Intimacy in the Work of Catherine Evans,’ Berlin Art Link: online magazine for contemporary art and culture, Berlin DE 14.04.20 >>
2020, Torrente, Ria, ‘Constellation: Beyond the Flat Surface,’ MONØMANIA online photography journal, Tokyo JP, 12.04.20 >>
2020, Kugler, Nina, ‘Catherine Evans gewinnt Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2020’ (de), Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin DE, 27.01 >>
2020, Bykowski, Jan, ‘Von machtgierigen Ventilatoren’ (de), Taz.de, Berlin DE, 31.01 >>
2020, Ruthe, Ingeborg, ‘Kunstpreis Neukölln: Catherine Evans überzeugt mit „Standing Stone“ (de), Berliner Zeitung, Berlin DE, 25.01 >>
2019, Becker, Conny, ‘Chapter 6: RAUMANEIGNUNG,’ catalogue of the exhibition within the framework of INTERIORS TO BEING, curated by Pauline Doutreluigne and April Gertler, Berlin DE
2018, Karipoff, Varia, ‘Stars and Stones,’ Art Guide Australia, January/February 2018, Melbourne AU, pg.68 >>
2018, ‘Interview: Catherine Evans reflects on her time as 2017 Fellow,’ Georges Mora Fellowship, Melbourne AU, 16.07.18 >>
2017, ‘Interview: Meet our 2017 Fellow,’ Georges Mora Fellowship, Melbourne AU, 28.07.17 >>
2017, Review of ‘The Presence of Absence,’ Taz.de, Berlin DE, 06.07.17 >>
2017, Torrente, Ria, 'Beyond the Flat Surface: Catherine Evans' Constellation,' Frame Zero online magazine, the world, 24.04.17
2016, Haynes, Hayley, 'shadow sites' exhibition review, This is Tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, London GB, 1.06.16 >>
2016, 'The Scenic Route #1 - Touch,' SLANG, Berlin DE >>
2014, Skerlj, Laura, ‘With the Universe at our backs,’ catalogue text for Standing Stone, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne AU >>
2014, 'To the Left and Back Some: Ten Years of BLINDSIDE' (ISBN: 978-0-9803074-2-9), BLINDSIDE, Melbourne AU
2014, artist Interview with Laura Skerlj, The Meander Journal, Brisbane AU, Issue 8, June >>
2014, Bunyan, Marcus, review of ‘Standing Stone,’ Art Blart, Melbourne AU 13th May >>
2013, 'Bound Together: the Rae and Bennett Gallery 2010 – 2013' (ISBN: 978-0-646-91492-3), Rae and Bennett Gallery, Melbourne AU
2013, Pryor, Sally, ‘Humour and Politics at M16,’ Capital Life, The Canberra Times, Canberra AU, 1st June
2012, Rainforth, Dylan, on ‘Bird Hide and Bunker,’ The Age, Melbourne AU, 3rd October, pg.15
2011, Duckett, Victoria, ‘Interior Architecture,’ Un Magazine, Melbourne AU, issue 5.2 November, pg.50-52 >>
2024, curatorial text (co-written with Sybille Neumeyer) for the symposium Somewhere between wrong and right there is a garden. I will meet you there* Rumi, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts & Sciences, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin DE >>
2021 - present, contributing author, Tender, initiated by A Published Event, online, the world >>
2022, ‘Utopia,’ Grapevine Earth, online, the world, 02.11.22 >>
2020, ‘Copper,’ commissioned fictionella for Lost Rocks, A Published Event, (ISBN: 978-0-6484927-8-8) Hobart AU >>
2019, Introduction to Las Hermanas de Rosinante, a photobook by Piotr Pietrus, commissioned by Alexandra Kaufmann and Evolution Film, Munich DE
2013, ‘Bedrock,’ Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize Anthology, Williamstown Literary Festival (runner up, ISBN: 978-0-9875213-1-6), Melbourne AU
2012, ‘Bird Hide and Bunker,’ catalogue essay for Bird Hide and Bunker, M16 ArtSpace, Canberra, and Seventh Gallery, Melbourne AU >>
2012, ‘Some Kinds of Duration (Nicholas Mangan),’ Mood of Monk online arts journal, Sydney, AU
2012, ‘The Histrionic (The Malthouse),’ Mood of Monk online arts journal, Sydney AU
2011, ‘Golden Hour,’ Above Water, Melbourne University Student Union’s annual writing anthology (highly commended), Melbourne AU
2011, ‘In Broad Daylight,’ Birdland, 360 Documentary series, ABC Radio National, Melbourne AU >>
2025, artist talk with curator Barbara Esh Marowski and the artists of A Dance for Reading Aloud, Galerie Ersteeste, Berlin DE
2025, artist talk with Dr Jule Reuter and the artists of From the Hidden Gardens, Axel Obiger, Berlin DE
2025, Lost Rocks (2025): End of an Era (audio participation), MPavilion, Melbourne AU
2024, Verschwommene Havel, gesammelter Fluss (curated by Alisa Trotz), Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, DE
2024, radio interview for Adler für Alle, hosted by elle dit, Collabradio, Berlin DE >>
2023, artist talk, Picture Berlin winter session hybrid residency, online, the world
2023, artist talk with curator Anna Voswinckel (Camera Austria) and the artists of Wie die Linien einer Hand, geschrieben in die Straßenränder, Villa Heike, Berlin DE
2023, artist talk with curator Thomas Elsen and artists of Circles, EMOP/Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin DE
2023, audio contribution to public sound installation ‘Les mystères de Cybèle,’ Matrimoine-en-Diois, Die FR >>
2023, panel participant, ‘Art in the context of endangered languages,’ The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Endanagered Language Archive (ELA) and the University of Arts, Berlin DE
2022, book presentation and reading of Lost Rocks (A Published Event), Zabriskie Bookshop, Berlin DE >>
2022, performative reading of Ein Vokabular, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin DE
2022, interdisciplinary artist talk with Dr Maria Cecilia Oliveira, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin DE
2022, ‘Colliding Timescales,’ interview with Renae Shadler for Worlding Podcast, episode #6.1, 9.2.22 >>
2021, contribution to 100 voices, making waves/beuysradio, Beuys2021 DE
2021, Lost Rocks Readings (invited by Kate Donovan), Achipel Community Radio at Zabriskie Bookshop, Berlin DE >>
2021, Artist in Conversation, ‘The Corruptibility of Time and how we (un)do Memory,’ with Dr Michael Pickering, Senior Repatriation Advisor, National Museum of Australia, hosted by Photoaccess, Canberra AU 5.8.21 >>
2021, Sculptural Thinking, artist walk and workshop hosted by Kunsthalle Below (KHB), Below DE
2020, artist interview with Michael Dooney for Subtext & Discourse, Berlin DE 03.08.20 >>
2020, radio interview during DIEresidenz with Piotr Pietrus and Conny Becker, rdwa, Die FR, 24.08.20 >>
2020, radio interview, ‘Scales for an Exapnding Universe,’ with Kate Donovan for Satellite Radio for 48hNK, hosted by Colaboradio and Werkstatt, Berlin DE 19.6.20 >>
2018, guest contributor on Kate Donovan’s radio program, elements (Collaboradio), Berlin DE, 27.11.18
2018, artist talk, Photography Studies College, Melbourne AU
2017, radio interview with Kate Donovan for elements (Collaboradio), episode 'crystals and rocks,' Berlin DE, 23.05.17 >>
2017, artist talk, PICTURE BERLIN hybrid artist residency fall session, Berlin DE
2016, radio interview with Kate Donovan for elements (Collaboradio), episode 'stones,' Berlin DE, 22.11.16 >>
2015, artist talk with Piotr Pietrus, Two birds, one stone, Das Kapital, Berlin DE
2014, radio interview for ‘Standing Stone,’ Art Smitten, SynFM, Melbourne AU, 4th May >>
2013, radio interview for ‘Bird Hide and Bunker,’ Artcetera, ArtSound FM, Canberra AU, 8th June >>
2013, guest speaker, professional practice seminar, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne AU
2024 - present, team member, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences (BAS) and the Graduate School, Berlin University of the Arts, DE
2024-2025, jury member, Neuköllner Kunstpreis, Berlin DE
2024, curatorial team member for the symposium Somewhere between right and wrong there is a garden. I will meet you there* Rumi, Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin DE
2021-2024, peer assessor, Australia Council for the Arts, AU
2022-2024, art educator, Labor M, Schloß Biesdorf, Marzahn-Hellersdorf DE
2016-present, co-director and Photographer at Photographic Services for the Contemporary Arts (psftca.com), Berlin DE >>
2017-2019, gallery assistant, Reiter Gallery, Berlin DE
2019, additional camera for Las Hermanas de Rosinante, a film by Alexandra Kaufmann (film nominated for best camera DOK.Fest Munich), DE
2015-2016, editorial team, ArtFacts.Net, Berlin DE
2012-2014, photographic technician, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne AU
Tender, initiated by A Published Event, online, the world >>
Pilote Contemporary, Berlin DE >>
SALOON Berlin, Professional network for women of the Berlin arts scene, Berlin DE >>
Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V., Berlin DE >>
bbk Berlin e.V., berufsverband bildender künstler*innen Berlin DE >>
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn DE >>