Katrin Hornek lives and works in Vienna. She studied Performative Art and Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene, that is, the new geologic epoch where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth. Both her artistic and her curatorial practice assert an understanding of the entwinement of nature and culture, implicitly arguing for more complex formulations—most recently, at ar/ger Kunst, Bolzano (2021), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt (2021), the Riga Biennale (2020), Hysterical Mining at Kunsthalle Wien (2019), and I: project space, Beijing (2018). She teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Department of Site-Specific Art, and is a member of the interdisciplinary research group The Anthropocene Surge (WWTF), where she is involved in mapping the Viennese Anthropocene. She has been the recipient of the Msgr. Otto Mauer Preis 2021, Förderatelier des Bundes since 2020, Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst 2017, Theodor Körner Prize 2013, and Kulturpreis des Landes Niederösterreich 2012.