Staff Profile

Introduction

Catrin Huber is an artist who works with painting, wall painting, drawing, collage, installation and more recently sound and film. Her practice investigates architectural, fictional and imagined space, and also site-specificity of painting / drawing. She is interested in Roman wall painting and its significance for contemporary site-specific fine art practice. Catrin is currently the PI for the AHRC-funded project: Expanded Interiors: Bringing Contemporary site-specific fine art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii. Further, she explores tensions between photographic image and materiality.

Background

Studied at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe and the Royal College of Art, London. She has exhibitied her work nationally and internationally.

Roles and Responsibilities

PI Expanded Interiors

Qualifications

2008 Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching, CLTAD, University of the Arts London
2005 Supervising Research Degree for Professionals in Art, Design & Communication, CLTAD, University of the Arts London

1999 MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London
1996 State Examination Degree in Literature (MA equivalent), University of Karlsruhe
1994 State Examination Degree (BA / MA equivalent) in Painting, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

Previous Positions

2003 - 2013 Associate Lecturer on the BA Painting course, Wimbledon College of Art
2004 – 2007 Visiting Lecturer on the BA Fine Art course, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
1999 – 2013 Invited to speak / give tutorials at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (2013); Pitzhangor Manor (2012); The British School at Rome (2011); Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (2009); School of Art & Design, University of Leeds (2009); Crescent Arts Scarborough (2009); Wimbledon College of Art (2009); Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (2006); School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture, University of Sunderland (2005); Faculty of Art and Design, University of Plymouth (2003); Wimbledon School of Art (2002); and Kent Institute of Art & Design (1999).

Memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Research Interests

Painting; drawing; collage; wall painting; Roman wall paintings; architectural, fictional and imagined space; site-responsiveness of painting / drawing; film.

Current Work

Research into the significance of Roman wall painting for contemporary site-specific practice / Research of constituents of painting / Collage and painting: 'growing' of collages.

Esteem Indicators

Invited as a speaker: 

2021 Expanded Interiors, Interconnections Symposium, Newcastle University

2021 Expanded Interiors, Glasgow School of Art

2021 Expanded Interiors Re-Staged, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

2019 Expanded Interiors, MCAHE Conference, Newcastle University

2019 Expanded Interiors talk at Contemporary Art and Archaeology Symposium, Newcastle Unievrsity

2019 Expanded Interiors, Explore, Newcastle

2019 Speaker at: 'Il Parco Archeologico di Ercolano, Archeologia, Arti e Territorio: dal percorso Maiuri Pop Up al Nuovo Programma 2019' at Parco Archeologico di Ercolano, Italy

2018 Expanded Interiors, Looking Out and In, Association for Art History Annual Conference 2018, Courtauld Institute of Art, King's College London

2017 Expanded Interiors: Bringing contemporary site-specific fine-art practice to Roman Houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum at Heritage Studies: Critical Approaches and New Directions conference, British Academy, London

2017 Fictional Spaces and Expanded Interiors, Explore, Commercial Unions House, Newcastle

2017 Expanded Interiors and Fictional Spaces, Creative Art Practice Symposium, Architecture, Newcastle University

2016 Art, Architecture and Life, Artists' Critical Interventions into Architecture and Urbanism conference, University of Warwick

2015 Fictional Spaces, responding to the places and spaces of contemporary art, Cultural Significance of Place group, Newcastle University

2014 School of Art Gallery & Museum, Aberystwyth

2013 Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

2012 Pitzhangor Manor, London

2011 the British School at Rome

2009 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

2009 School of Art and Design, University of Leeds

2009 Crescent Arts Scarborough

2009 Wimbledon College of Art

2006 Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, Germany

2005 University of Sunderland

2003 Faculty of Art and Design, University of Plymouth

2002 School of Arts & Cultures, Newcastle University

2002 Wimbledon School of Art

 

Scholarships/Awards

2020 AHRC follow-on award for Expanded Interiors Re-Staged (PI)

2017 AHRC research award for Expanded Interiors (PI)

2016 Shortlisted for the Hatton Commission Showcase

2012 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (CI)

2011 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (PI)

2011 Fictional Spaces, REF, Newcastle University

2011 Fictional Spaces, SRF, Newcastle University

2009 FRF for From line to Space, Newcastle University

2008 Abbey Award Fellowship at the British School at Rome

2000 Grant, Karlsruher Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste

1999/2000 County Baden-Württemberg Award for an artist residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

1998 John Crane Travel Award

1997 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship

1992 Künstlerwege e.V: Scholarship for an artist residency in Moscow

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2021 Expanded Interiors Re-Staged, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

2020 PUBLIKA FENESTRO I, Expanded Interiors, Filet, London

2018 Expanded interiors at Pompeii, Italy

2018 Expanded Interiors at Herculaneum, Italy

2013 As Above So Below, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (catalogue)

2011 Hall of Fictional Space, The British School at Rome (catalogue)

2010 Kiosk of Fictional Space, Kiosk24, Herford, Germany (catalogue)

2008 Hairchitecture, Blue Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne

2002 Situative Raumzeichnung Malerei, ARTWEB24>Kunstraum, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

2001 Retour de Paris, Institut Français, Stuttgart

2000 Malerei, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen

1999 Eye Elevator, David Hockney Gallery, RCA, London

 

Selected Group Exhibition

2019 A wall painting for Victoria Avenue, Arthouses, Whitley Bay

2017 Art, architecture and life: a fictional discussion between three historical artists, Arthouses, Whitley Bay

2017 Fully Awake, BlipBlipBlip, Leeds

2016 Montage Table, Northern Charter, Newcastle upon Tyne2015 TWENTIETH, APT Gallery, London

2015 Speculations: making, thinking, drawing, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

2014 Sense of Soane, School of Art Gallery & Museum, Aberystwyth

2014 Switch, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, Netherlands

2012 Sense of Soane, Pitzhangor Manor House, London (catalogue)

2012 Apropos the Kissing of a Hand, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne

2012 Festival Robert Walser, Newcastle upon Tyne (Co-organiser)

2012 Delineation, APT Gallery, London

2011 The Perfect Crime, curated by Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs, No.4a Gallery, Malvern

2011 Invaluable, curated by Victoria Rance and Sheila Vollmer, APT Gallery, London(catalogue)

2010 MIX, curated by Mali Morris and Chris Marshall, APT Gallery, London

2010 From Line to Space. Drawings by Thomas Wright of Durham and drawings from a range of disciplines at Newcastle University. Curated together with Richard Talbot.

2009 Free Art Fair, Barbican Centre, London (catalogue)

2008 Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome (catalogue)

2008 Ex Roma ||, APT Gallery, London

2008 Tuttifrutti, The British School at Rome (catalogue)

2008 Mothers, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London

2007 London Assembly, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Brussels

2006 Deck of Cards, 39, London

2006 Water, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London

2005 The Wrong Map, Three Colts Gallery, London

2004 Mothers, Oxford House, London

2003 Portrait of the artist as an exquisite corpse, 39, London

2003 The Bold & The Beautiful: New Art from London, RMIT Project Space, Australia and Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania (supported by the British Council) (catalogue)

2002 The Bold & The Beautiful, Mile End Park Pavilions, London

2002 a little Bold & Beautiful, Ferguson McDonald Gallery, London

2002 50.Retour de Paris, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, (catalogue)

2001 RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London

2000 Gruppenausstellung, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

2000 Painting, Limehouse Art Foundation, London

1999 British Telecom HQ, London

1999 Albert-Hausenstein-Preis-Exhibition, Germersheim

1998 Vorsicht Farbe, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

1998 Howie Street 1, RCA, London

1997 Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt

1995 Klasse Erwin Gross, Podium Kunst, Schramberg (catalogue)

1992 Exit, Suricow Institute, Moscow

 

Collections               

Sammlung Baden-Württemberg - County Baden-Württemberg Collection of Fine Art (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart), Royal College of Art and private collections in the UK, Austria, Italy and Germany.

Examiner at Kingston University for MA Art & Space, MA European Art Practice, MA Fine Art with Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, and MA Photography.

 

Funding

2019 AHRC follow-on grant for Expanded Interiors Re-Staged (PI)

2017 AHRC research award for Expanded Interiors (PI)

2012 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England (CI)

2011 Grant for the Arts, Arts Council England

2009 From Line to Space, Faculty Research Fund

2008 Abby Award Fellowship at the British Academy at Rome

2003 Funding from The German Embassy for The Bold and The Beautiful

2000 Grant, Staatliche Akademie de bildenden Künste Karlsruhe

1999/2000 County Baden-Württemberg award for an artist residency at the Cité Internaltionale des Arts, Paris

1998 John Crane Travel Award

1997 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship

1992 Künstlerwege e.V: Scholarship for an artist residency in Moscow 

Undergraduate Teaching

BA Fine Art studio programme

Postgraduate Teaching

Supervisor for MFA students (studio and dissertation)

Supervisor for PhD students

 

• Huber C. Expanded Interiors at Herculaneum. 2018. Herculaneum / Pompeii: Parco Archeologico di Ercolano / Parco Archeologico di Pompei, 23.
• Huber C. Expanded Interiors at Pompeii. 2018. House of the Cryptoporticus, Pompeii, Italy: House of the Cryptoporticus, Pompeii, 6.
• Huber C. Expanded Interiors: Bringing contemporary site-specific fine-art practice to Roman houses at Herculaneum and Pompeii. 2018. Herculaneum and Pompeii: Casa del Bel Cortile and Casa del Criptoportico, 31.
• Huber C. Art, architecture and life: a fictional discussion between three historical artists. 2017. Whitley Bay, UK: Arthouses.
• Huber C. Fully Awake; group exhibition curated by Ian Hawthorne and Sean Kaye. 2017. Leeds: BlipBlipBlip, 1. In Preparation.
• Huber C. Montage Table. 2016. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Northern Charter, 10.
• Huber C. Showcase: Designs for a Touring Pavilion. Group exhibition with Toby Paterson and Harriet Sutcliffe & Jack Mutton. 2016. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Laing Art Gallery, 6.
• Huber C. Speculations: making, thinking, drawing. Group exhibition curated by Richard Talbot and Madeleine Kennedy with among others Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Wilson. 2015. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Hatton Gallery, 2.
• Huber C. A foreign encounter, group exhibition with among others Anthony Gormley, Richard Grayson, Wolfgang Wielder and Uta Kogelsberger. 2015. Munich, Germany: Galerie Foe, 1.
• Huber C, Allchurch E, Desmet A. Sense of Soane. 2014. Aberystwyth: Museum at Aberystwyth University, 12.
• Huber C, Ashton S, Craddock S, Hales S. Catrin Huber - Fictional Spaces. Sunderland: Art Editions North, 2013.
• Huber C. As Above So Below. 2013. Newcastle upon Tyne: Hatton Gallery, 12.
• Allchurch E, Desmet A, Huber C. Sense of Soane. 2012. London: Pitzhangor Manor, 1.
• Allchurch E, Desmet A, Huber C, Ross C, Swords C. Sense of Soane. London: Arrivata Publishing, 2012.
• Becker P, Denman-Cleaver T, Heller G, Huber C, Webster-Saaremets C. Festival Robert Walser: An interdisciplinary art festival dedicated to the life and work of the unique, modernist, Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956). The first ever UK festival brought together local and international writers, performers, academics, musicians and visual artists to explore the influence of this extraordinary writer on contemporary artists. Participants include: Billy Childish (artist), Roman Signer (artist), Reto Sorg (director of the Robert Walser Zentrum Bern), Jo Catling (translater), Luke Williams (writer), Daniele Pantano (writer), theatre-between (theatre), Tender Buttons (theatre) and Skimstone Arts (theatre). The festival was organised and curated by Paul Becker, Tess Denman-Cleaver, Gabriele Heller, Catrin Huber and Claire Webster-Saaremets. 2012. Newcastle upon Tyne: City Library, The Lit & Phil, Vane Gallery, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 31.
• Huber C. Fictional Spaces. A series of site-specific wall paintings, projections and drawings, investigating the dynamics of real architecture in relation to surface and depicted space, with particular reference to the formal devices of Roman wall painting. 2010. Rome, London, Newcastle.
• Huber C. El Lissitzky and a Roman Painter. Turps Banana 2011, 10, 44-50.
• Huber C. Hall of Fictional Space. 2011. Rome, Italy: The British School at Rome, 7.
• Huber C. The Perfect Crime, group exhibition curated by Phillip Allen and Dan Coombs with among others Stuart Cumberland, Alexis Harding, Chantal Joffe and Martin Westwood. 2011. Malvern: No.4A Gallery, 1.
• Huber C. Bavarian Schafkopf. In: Rance, V., Vollmer, S, ed. Invaluable: A Retrospective by APT Artists of their Work from 1970-2010. London, UK: APT Gallery, 2011, pp.16.
• Huber C. Invaluable, curated by Victoria Rance and Sheilla Vollmer with among others Mali Morris, John McLean, Roxy Walsh and Rob Welch. 2011. London, UK: APT Gallery, 1.
• Huber C. Kiosk of Fictional Space. Solo exhibition. 2010. Herford, Germany: Kiosk24, 8.
• Huber C, Talbot R. From Line to Space. Drawings by Thomas Wright of Durham and drawings from a range of disciplines at Newcastle University. 2010. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Ex Libris Gallery.
• Huber C. What have you always wanted to do but haven't?. In: Joffe, J, ed. The Free Art Fair. London: Barbican Centre, 2009, pp.23.
• Huber C. The Free Art Fair 2009. Group exhibition with among others Marlene Dumas, Matthew Collins, Sacha Craddock, Stuart Cumberland, Adam Dant. 2009. London: Barbican Centre, 2.
• Huber C. Hairchitecture. Solo exhibition. 2008. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Blue Gallery, 7.
• Huber C. Fine Arts 2007-2008. In: Benci, J, ed. Fine Arts 2007-2008, The British School at Rome. Rome, Italy: The British School at Rome, 2008, pp.52-55.
• Huber C. Tuttifrutti. Group exhibition with among others Marta Marce, John Walters, Eleanor and James Avery. 2008. Rome: The British School at Rome, 4.
• Huber C. Spazi Aperti. Group exhibition at the Romanian Academy in Rome with among others Carsten Nicolai, Matthias Weischer, David Schnell and Jeremy Deller. 2008. Rome: Accademia di Romania, 3.
• Huber C. Exhibition Catalogue. In: Pribac, M, ed. Spazi Aperti. Rome: Accademia di Romania in Roma, 2008, pp.26.
• Huber C. Ex Roma II. Group exhibition with among others Spartacus Chetwynd, Marta Marce and Louise Minkin. 2008. London: APT Gallery, 1.
• Huber C, Hirsch T, Walsh R. Catrin Huber, Artweb. Düsseldorf: Engelhardt & Bauer, 2005.
• Becker P, Huber C. Apropos the Kissing of a Hand: international group exhibition with among others Billy Childish, Roman Signer and Jeremy Millar. Curated by Paul Becker and Catrin Huber. 2012. Newcastle upon Tyne: Vane Gallery, 14.
• Huber C. Expanded Interiors Re-Staged. 2021. Newcastle: The Hatton Gallery, 9.
• Huber C. Wall painting for Victoria Avenue. 2019. Whitley Bay: Home on Victoria Avenue, 1.