mail // caroline.bruenen@gmail.com
b. 1991 near Cologne, Germany.
based in Cologne.
Caroline Brünen (*1991) studied Latin American Studies in Cologne and Mexico City (B.A.) before beginning her studies in Media Arts at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2017. Here she studied Artistic Photography with Prof. Beate Gütschow and graduated in 2023.
Her photographic works are documentary in nature and deal with photography in combination with text and sound. A recurring motif in her projects is the dialogue with her protagonists about power structures and body (images); and the attempt at deconstruction. She also explores human and more-than-human coexistence with architectural structures. Here, she is particularly interested in flows and fragmentation with regard to the climate crisis. In all her projects, she visualises her role as a photographer and her subjective gaze in various ways. Her work has already been exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in Paris, the Kunsthafen Cologne and most recently at the Glasmoog in Cologne.
education //
2017-2023: Media Arts, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2012-2016: B.A. Latin America Studies and Social Science in Cologne and Mexico-City
exhibitions //
2023
Songs of Sanity, Glasmoog, Cologne (s)
The End / Not The End ? / Kunsthafen, Cologne (g)
Galerie 52, Essen (g)
2022
The End / Not The End ? / La jeune photographie allemande, Goethe-Institut Paris (g)
Sublime & Subliminal / Motoki, Cologne (g)
Mutterschaft / Pop-Up Fotogalerie, Herzogenaurach (g)
RHEV – a visual album / Art@Tech Festival Cologne (g)
2021
[insert title] / case – Projektraum für Fotografie, Cologne (s)
2019
tot/Tod | case – Projektraum für Fotografie, Cologne (s)
2018
The Essential / Loosen Art Gallery, Rome (g)
N.OF.I – No Offense Intended, 686 Gallery, Cologne (g)
publications //
disoriented. traces followed - yet not arrived, 2022 / self-published book, limited edition of 40 signed copies
Mutterschaft, 2022 / a series of 8 portraits published at “Die Verpeilte Magazin”
film //
2021
“RHEV - a visual album”, 5 music videos for the concept EP RHEV by B.Vou - co-direction with Bruno Manguen Sapiña
2020
“kilometro cero”, 29 minutes, documentary film - Premiere in March 2022 at San Diego Latino Film Festival