Year of Residency: 2025
Short Bio
Karin Ospelt is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Liechtenstein. In her visual work, she combines installations, drawings, objects, video art and sound into poetic spaces of experience. Her works revolve around themes such as transience, transformation and the sensual perception of materiality. Intuition, reduction, and the conscious use of organic materials characterize her artistic process. Ospelt understands art as an invitation to contemplation and a quiet, individual exploration of the invisible. In addition to her artistic practice, she also works as a theater musician, composer, singer and bandleader.
Artist Statement
As a visual artist, I engage with installations, drawings, objects, and video art to explore the poetics of the moment and the tactile presence of organic materiality. My practice is driven by a fascination with the interplay of sound, color, and matter—often articulated through deliberate reduction to evoke spaces of ambiguity and the unspoken. Working intuitively and associatively, I embrace experimental processes that allow emotional and spontaneous impulses to shape the form and rhythm of the work. My pieces invite contemplative engagement, rendering subtle energies perceptible and fostering individualized modes of perception. Through the convergence of image, material, and language, I create a sensual dialogue that reflects on impermanence, transformation, and the resonance of inner connectedness.