Kat Austen

Kat Austen is a person. In her artistic practice, she focuses on environmental issues. She melds disciplines and media, creating sculptural and new media installations, performances, and participatory work. Austen’s practice is underpinned by extensive research and theory and driven by a motivation to explore how to move towards a more socially and environmentally just future. Working from her studio in Berlin, Austen is currently Artist in Residence at the Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences, University College London (UCL), Senior Teaching Fellow at UCL Arts and Sciences and Associate Artist Fellow at Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. Her studio hosts two Scientists in Residence through the STUDIOTOPIA programme hosted by Ars Electronica. In February 2022 Austen was awarded with the STAR+T+S Repairing the Future fellowship to develop in cooperation with Fara Peluso an algae-based Vinyl alternative. Additionally, Austen received the NEUSTART Kultur project funding. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Austen has exhibited at Wrocław Contemporary Museum; Bonhams Art Gallery, London; The Polar Museum, Cambridge; Künsthalle Rostock; Kuehlhaus, Berlin, among others, and her work is held internationally in public and private collections. She has performed around the globe, including at Opera North, Leeds; Fusion Festival, Berlin; and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco.