Katharina Bosse works on long-term projects based on gender and biography. At the core of her work are representations of gender and the struggle not to be defined by them. The ironic retro-sexuality of New Burlesque (2003), the naked pregnant mother in the woods in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother (2011), and the Drag King Larry Long (2025) all reflect a willingness to step onto the stage in order to reclaim control over social narratives. Being a mother and a female artist is central to her artistic and activist practice.

By situating photographic works in both printed photobooks and curated exhibitions, she treats image-objects as dynamic sites of social and biographical experience. Her long-term projects revisit and rewrite narratives around gender and the body, reclaiming visibility for those historically defined by patriarchy or marginalization.

Bosse works at the intersection of fiction and documentation, considering exhibitions and photobooks as sites of experience and human connection. She loves to print and to work on the nuances of individual images, both in the darkroom and digitally. She serves her community as a curator, publisher, and facilitator as an extension of her artistic practice