Research Catalogue

Anton Kats (b. 1983, Kherson, Ukraine) works as an artist, musician, and educator.

His practice draws from the everyday and is inspired by the south Ukrainian neighbourhood of Satelite Island, in the port city of Kherson. Leaving Ukraine in 2000 to claim asylum in Germany, Kats’ work is shaped by the urgencies of displacement and the pragmatics of self legalisation in Europe through formal education. In reverberation of this process, Kats was awarded a practice based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, and invited to documenta 14 where he initiated the Narrowcast House and A-Letheia projects.

Motivated by questions of agency and intentionality, Kats flexibly augments art practice through sound, music, performance, radio, and research. He develops responsive and site specific projects that explore the interdependencies of learning, displacement, and the non normative. His practice emphasises artistic research protocols and embraces music and performance, sound and radio works, films and audiovisual projects, sculptures and installations, drawings and objects, vinyl releases, publications, and lectures.

Kats’ works have been presented at SAVVY Contemporary, Serpentine Galleries, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, BBC 6 Music, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Lot Radio, The Showroom Gallery, Bergen Kunsthall, steirisher herbst, Sonic Acts, Roskilde and Fusion Festivals, CCA Berlin, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Sophiensæle, the 10th Berlin Biennale, and documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel among others.