"In her artist practice, Tabata von der Locht expands her working environment from the studio to urban areas. By walking around and observing, she develops an ever-growing collection of traces, imprints and fragments. This collection consists of small and easily overlooked details as stains of chewing gum on tarmac or remnants of posters on advertising columns. Further observations document graffiti, markings on construction sites and the structure of fences or pigeon deterrent systems. In this way, gestures and traces that belong to a wide range of people are brought together. Tabata developed her own method for removing color pigments. This allows her to actually transfer the marks left by society into her artistic practice, instead of only having the possibility to imitate and translate them. She then takes the collected traces to the studio to process them further. The concept of putting urban finds into a new context constitutes Tabata’s serial approach referencing different materialities. Thus, the interplay between collecting and translating can be discovered in her fabric collages, sculptures, and photographs. Her focus on drawing gestures from urban space is accompanied by an investigation of forms and structures of defense systems. These observations from cityscape convey an impression of protection and exclusion, defensiveness and vulnerability [...]"

Text: Johanna Disch

Tabata von der Locht studierte Malerei in der Klasse von Prof. Schirin Kretschmann. 2025 wurde sie zum Diplom mit der Debütantinnenförderung (m/w/d) ausgezeichnet und hat damit einen Katalog erstellt.