Kathrin Böhm

[1] Since the mid-nineties, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged practice, in which she co-produces complex organisational, spatial, visual and economic forms.

[2] Böhm works internationally, including teaching and publishing, and contributes as a researcher to the wider topics of 'New Economy', 'Usership of Art' and the 'Production of Public Space'.

Böhm stopped starting new projects and instead composted her work to date, to make fertiliser for evolving long term infrastructures[4] such as Company Drinks,[5] The Centre for Plausible Economies,[6] and Myvillages’ Rural School of Economics.

[9] Kathrin is the founder and co-founder of numerous collectives and organisations: Collaborative projects within the university environment include 'Galeria Quattro Stazione', and 'One Night Pub' with Lisa Cheung.

Collaborative on-site work within an exhibition context was explored during 'Happy Hobby' at Tabot Gallery (1998) and 'Pic Nics' at Camden Arts Centre (1999), both with Stefan Saffer.

Public Works was set up as a truly inter-disciplinary practice, in which both professional fields, art and architecture, are allowed to explore the autonomous and the applied through collaboration.

Important projects developed during Böhm's thirteen years of practice include Mobile Porch, a roaming mini-architecture for urban neighbourhoods, Park Products for the Serpentine Gallery and Kensington Gardens and most recently Colchester Inn, a multi-authored new public space for firstside's adjacent city square.