​​Katharina Schilling primarily works in the medium of painting. She incorporates techniques and visual languages from various sources in art history, reflecting the interconnected nature of artistic production. Through the composition of images based on different painting approaches, often referencing the realms of painting production itself, past and present come together in a playful manner. Images, objects, and motifs are detached from their historical contexts and shifted within the painterly execution to create new contexts of meaning, revealing utopian potential within art history.

Katharina Schilling, born in Cologne in 1984, studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and at Camberwell College in London. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria.