Catalina Schliebener
Catalina Schliebener is a visual artist and educator from Santiago de Chile, currently based in Brooklyn. She received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales ARCIS, in Santiago. From 2002-2008, she worked as an assistant professor of philosophy and art theory at several universities in Chile. Her work has been exhibited individually and collectively in galleries and museums in Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, Belfast, London, Miami, Ontario and New York. She received grants and fellowships from the Development of Culture and the Arts Fund of the Government of Chile (Fondart), the Board of Cultural Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (Dirac), as well as the Henry Moore Foundation in the United Kingdom. In 2017, she was selected to participate in the Queer Artist Fellowship program at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and in 2018 in the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Schliebener works primarily with collage, drawings, murals, and installations. The subject matter of her work focuses on everyday images and objects related to childhood. Children’s books, pedagogical objects, costumes, sports and games are frequent sources of material in her work. She is particularly interested in childhood because in this period the limits between reality and fiction are not yet defined. She intentionally works with material that carries implicit narratives around gender, sexuality, and class. Children’s stories and games are embedded with morals that indirectly teach social and behavioral norms. She seeks to draw attention to these norms in order to render them uncanny. Her intention with this strategy is to pause or interrupt the narrative, to introduce ambiguity in the face of supposed certainty.
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