Ronda Valencia, 2 Madrid SP
Bas Jan Ader, Feiko Beckers, Gwenneth Boelens, Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Sharon Houkema, Martin In't Veld, Katja Mater, Navid Nuur, Ger van Elk, Marijn van Kreij
curated by Javier Hontoria

Markt, Middelburg & De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Zusterstraat 7, Middelburg NL
Gwenneth Boelens, Piet Dieleman, gerlach en koop, Sara van der Heide, Martijn Hendriks, Bas van der Hurk, Rob Johannesma, Katja Mater, Marc Nagtzaam, Falke Pisano, Roma Publications, Petra Stavast, Batia Suter, Remco Torenbosch, Martijn in ‘t Veld
curated by Lorenzo Benedetti

535 West 24th Street, New York USA
Raul De la Cruz, Calum Colvin, Ludovica Carbotta, Sebastien Girard, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, Ivan Mikhaylov, Nelli Palomaki, Sharon Yaari and Katja Mater
Bruce Silverstein Gallery with the guidance of curatorial advisor Nathan Lyons, annually invites ten prominent curators to nominate one artist whom they feel deserves the opportunity for further exposure within New York's cultural milieu. I was invited by curator Marchel Feil

AMOA-Arthouse, 700 Congress Avenue Austin Texas USA
Sterling Allen, Facundo Argañaraz, Strauss Bourque LaFrance, Katja Mater, Christopher Samuels, Justin Swinburne and J. Parker Valentine.
Through the creation of complex visual narratives, the international artists in this exhibition present provocative abstract forms that investigate art’s potential to interrupt and/or reconstruct elements of everyday life. Each of the seven  artists test the boundaries of working abstractly, with found objects and images, reformed digital technologies, as well as reference traditional techniques. While exploring the potential of objects in space, their ideas coalesce around an opposition to fixed forms. By encouraging examinations of context and allowing for ambiguous formal and narrative combinations to inform one another, Evidence of Houdini’s Return focuses on the value of abstraction in contemporary art discourse today.

Vieux-Grenadiers 10 Genève CH
with:  Rosa Barba, Pavel Büchler, Hollis Frampton, Louise Hervé et Chloé Maillet, Robert-Jan Lacombe, Chris Marker, Katja Mater, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Margaret Salmon, Hito Steyerl, Gitte Villesen, Akram Zaatari. Screenings: Chantal Akerman, James Benning, Brent Green, Isidore Isou, William E. Jones.
The project takes Chris Marker's "La Jetée" as a point of departure, and researches the notion of time and memory, and more specifically the relationship between image and mark, traces, traumatism.
The collective exhibition will allow to insert the film – like a Freudian mnesic trace, and as an early work overloaded with possible inspirations and formal as well as conceptual tracks of thoughts – in a dialogue with about 10 mainly recent works. These will offer different formats and materials – not only short films or installations, but also plastic works and a performance – allowing thus for a broadening of the reflection.
curated by Emilie Bujès and Katya García-Antón

De Constant Rebecqueplein 20b, The Hague NL
Artists: David Claerbout, Nathalie De Briey, Robbrecht Desmet, Victoria Fu, Julien Grossmann, Katja Mater, Alexandra Navratil, Noor Nuyten, Magdalena Pilko, Petra Stavast and Joe Winter
In Tangible Time: Chasing the Invisible artists are brought together who work with the concept of time and make it tangible in a visual manner. In the selected works time is stretched, stapled, fragmented, reconstructed or show in relation to distance. Photography, installations, films, drawings and publications are part of the whole in which time is deconstructed and the approach of physics is ignored in favour of the imaginary. curated by Danielle van Zuijlen.

Royal Palace, Dam square, Amsterdam NL
On 07 October 2011 I was awarded the Royal Award for Painting 2011, together with Marie Civikov, Omar Koubâa and Navid Nuur.
The Royal Awards for Painting are presented each year by Her Majesty the Queen. They were first introduced by King William III in 1871 as an incentive to talented young painters. Queen Emma, Queen Wilhelmina, Queen Juliana and the incumbent Queen Beatrix have kept up the tradition to this day.
Dutch independent professional artists who had not reached the age of 35 years on January 1, 2011, could compete for the Award. In 2011 – in response to advertisements in various media, over 200 artists’ sent in slides and documentation. 80 Artists were asked to submit two paintings for the second round.

Corso Venezia, 22 Milano, IT
Artists: Mario Airò, Tony Brown, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Paolo Gonzato, Franco Guerzoni, Eva Marisaldi, Katja Mater, Liliana Moro, Nathaniel Rackowe, Davide Tranchina, Mark Aerial Waller, Silvio Wolf.

Keizersgracht 609, Amsterdam NL
Artists: Melanie Bonajo, Kim Boske, Blommers & Schumm, Elspeth Diederix, Fleur van Dodewaard, Uta Eisenreich, Peggy Franck, Marnix Goossens, Eva-Fiore Kovacovsky, Paul Kooiker, Anouk Kruithof, Yvonne Lacet, Lernert & Sander, Charlott Markus, Katja Mater, Krista van der Niet, Jaap Scheeren & Hans Gremmen, Scheltens & Abbenes, Diana Scherer, Johannes Schwartz, Ingmar Swalue, Marianne Vierø, Anne de Vries and Qiu Yang.

Zuidwal 52, The Hague NL
Alexandra Leykauf & Katja Mater & Marjolein Rothman.
The paintings, photographs and films gathered in the exhibition time and time again visualise the process that brought them into being,offering an image not as the final result of the artistic process but as one possibility amongst others.

Prinsengracht 276, Amsterdam NL

Publication: A Study on Colour
158 x 210 mm, 68 pages
Design by Veronica Ditting
Text by Will Holder
Published by Heden The Hague
ISBN 978-90-78203-14-8
Available in Amsterdam at Athenaeum Nieuwscentrum and Shashin Books, or can be ordered online here.