Kata Unger

Kata Unger was born in Berlin in 1961 and lives there. She studied architecture at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art, which she left after a year (1981/82) following political disagreements with the faculty. From 1982 to 1985, she collaborated with the painter and weaver K. H. Bethke. In 2007, she and Frank Diersch founded the project space German Tatami. In 2019, she was invited to the Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Museum Rijswijk, The Hague, NLD).
Among other things, she had the following solo exhibitions: 2024, CATCH-22. The Big Picture and Me and 2025 Comrades, I'm Concerned About the Quality of the Tea at the Brandenburg State Museum, 2019 STRONG CRAVING — The Devilish is Very Close to the Beautiful, at the ARTAe Gallery, Leipzig, 2019 DEMONS DANCE ALONE, at Walden Kunstausstellungen, Berlin, 2019 GAP JUNCTIONS, at Märzhase, Galerie für junge Kunst, Paderborn, 2018 E-Zone, at the ANNA KLINKHAMMER GALERIE, Düsseldorf, 2016 The Chinese Room, at Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 2009 Tapestries/Paintings, at Tucholsky Museum, Rheinsberg Castle, 2000 SOFTWARE, at Klostergalerie Zehdenick and participated in various group exhibitions, e.g. at the Grassimuseum in Leipzig, Museum of Contemporary Art Hyvinkää (FIN), Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (SVN), international exhibitions in Mexico City (MEX), Santa Monica, CA, Chicago (USA), Warsaw (PL), Cluj (ROU), Ljubljana (SVN), Groznjan (HR), Avignon (FRA) and national exhibitions in project spaces, municipal and commercial galleries.