Katja Novitskova

Estonian artist Katja Novitskova (*1984) is considered one of the pioneering figures of post-internet art. In her primarily installation-based practice, she works with photographic sculptures – spatial objects that employ image material sourced from the internet, scientific databases, or media archives. She translates appropriated digital images into physical space, where they acquire new conceptual layers. 

Her work focuses on the shifting relationships between nature, the body, and technological systems within the conditions of global image circulation. Motifs of animals, biomass, growth, and adaptation appear as indicators of a contemporary world in which biological and technological processes become increasingly interconnected and difficult to separate. Novitskova explores an environment where reality is ever more frequently experienced through its digital representations, and where images function as autonomous agents shaping our perception and imagination of the future. 

A key moment in her early career was the publication Post-Internet Survival Guide (2010), which articulated strategies for navigating a world in which the internet had ceased to be merely a tool and had become a fundamental condition of everyday experience. 

Katja Novitskova lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2017 she represented Estonia at the 57th Ven ice Biennale. Her work has been presented at institutions including the Whitechapel Gallery in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is held in major international collections.