Katharina Mörth

Katharina Mörth (b. 11 August 1977 in Munich) is an Austrian sculptor of German origin who has lived and worked in Austria for more than twenty years. From 1996 to 1999 she trained in wood carving (Holzbildhauerei) at a vocational school in Munich and gained her journeyman’s certificate. From 1999 to 2004 she studied at the Universität für angewandte Kunst in Vienna in Adolf Frohner’s master class (and with Sepp Auer), completing her studies in 2004 with a diploma with distinction (Magistra Artium). In 2004–2005 she completed a certificate programme in cultural management at the Institut für Kulturkonzepte in Vienna. She has worked as an independent artist since 2004, and in 2013 was studio assistant to Erwin Wurm. Since 2020 she has been the Austrian representative of AIESM, the international association of monumental sculpture.

She works with metal (steel), wood, stone, snow and ice, and also paints and makes “sculptural” photography and light objects. At the heart of her work is materiality and the physical resistance of the material: she turns solid mass into a permeable structure through penetrations, breaches and reduction. Since 2019 she has worked regularly in the Krastal quarry in Carinthia, where she also had a solo exhibition at the Bildhauer:innenhaus Krastal. She has made over thirty permanent sculptures in public space and taken part in more than eighty exhibitions, symposia and residencies around the world (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Iran, Japan, China, Canada, the USA, Bolivia, Australia, Africa). In 2025 she was the first Austrian ever invited to the prestigious Sculpture by the Sea in Sydney, where she showed the large-format steel sculpture “Natural Grown” with a thermochromic surface that changes colour with temperature.

She showed the same work in 2025 by the Water Tower in České Budějovice at the Art in the City festival.