Kaaren Beckhof studied theater and religion in Berlin and graduated in San Francisco with an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts. The starting point of her works are mostly everyday modes of action and movement. She dedicates her performances primarily to the atmospheric reinterpretation of places. Beckhof is currently focusing on artistic research into South Indian scattered drawings (Kolams) and their contextual reinterpretation. Beyond traditional genre boundaries, she creates spatial situations that sensitize people to the relativity of time and space. She was funded by the Stiftung Kulturwerk / VG Bild-Kunst, the Berlin Senate and the Euregio project GrensWerte. She was a fellow of the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar Kreis and at the DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst and received art prizes from the Kunstverein Wagrien and the Berlin Futropolis Prize for the future of City.

In Schöppingen Beckhof researched a performative drawing, the „Kolamweg“. The line sprinkled on the floor with stone dust should be replaced by a participatory walking performance. She was interested in what happens to the universal patterns when they are implemented in large format while walking, experienced with the moving body and become „alive“. The performance „Hohe Weide“ was created in the last days of her stay. She let the imaginary roots of the tree, which towers over the house at 32m, meander through the rooms. As a living pendulum, she overdrew a floor drawing with Lissajous figures until it came to a complete standstill.