Katrin Lock (31), studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including If I ruled the world, Shedhalle Zurich and Kunstraum Munich (1997); Love is in the air – Love Lounge Hamburg, Hamburger Kunstverein (1997); ticker, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin (1999); Mensch und Genetik, Museum for Natural History, Berlin (1999); Forty Minus One, Stichting Activiteiten in Rotterdam (2000) and Levels #1, Gallery im Parkhaus, Berlin (2001), Schizorama, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Ortsbegehung 10, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Göttinger Kunstverein, Berlin (2004).

She has also exhibited in solo exhibitions at K&S Gallery, Berlin (2002) Gallery FHS, Hamburg (2002) and at the Haus Schwarzenberg (2003), Berlin. Her videos have been shown in Tel Aviv and at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Caen, among others.

Her radio features on Mothers in pop music and Reggae in Germany were broadcasted on Zündfunk (Bayrischer Rundfunk) in 1999. In 2001, projects included writing about weapons and music for the BE magazine (published by the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin), articles for the German music magazines Spex and Groove. An essay on emancipatory aspects of Hip Hop music in Senegal will be published 2005 in the book Resounding International Relations: On Music, Culture and Politics (New York/London Palgrave). She also realised a project for the UN conference On Illicit Trade on Small Arms and Light Weapons (2001) in New York. She presented her work at conferences on Small Arms issues at the Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (2002) and at the University of Leipzig (2002). A feature on her work was presented on arte television in 2002.