Bianca Pratorius was born in Cologne, Germany in 1969. She started her formal training

at the Holzfachschule, Köln where she received her degree in fine furniture building and

design and subsequently moved to Miami where she attended International Fine Arts

College. !

 Her work is featured internationally in many private and corporate collections including the

"Millennium Partners Collection" permanently housed in the Four Seasons Hotel in Miami.

She has exhibited her work at the Gulf Coast Museum in a three person show as well as the

2012 Biennial for Installation Art at the Appelton Museum of Art. She was featured in a solo

show at Ground Arts, New York City in 2013 as well as the Boca Raton Museum of Art 2013

juried exhibition and competition and the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in 2014. Her

was has been exhibited internationally in numerous Art Fairs including AAF Hong Kong and

London.   In her work Pratorius explores pattern, structure and repetition through the use of simple

yet labor- intensive processes. She continuously investigates different materials for their

structural and tactile potential and the process of selecting them is very deliberate.

The soft forms she creates from felt revolve around the process of hand cutting the felt into

very organized ladder type pattern which seems to dissolve into organized chaos upon

installation. The forms are never preconceived, but are created spontaneously upon

installation by letting the inherent sensuality of the material express itself.

Her pieces counteract the notion of an object's or sculpture's permanence as they are

unplanned expressions on a wall or space that can never be repeated exactly once the form

is removed.