mail // caroline.bruenen@gmail.com
b. 1991 near Cologne, Germany.
based in Cologne and Barcelona
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.
In her projects, she deals with issues of social and ecological (in)justice, with a particular interest in the coexistence of human and more-than-human beings with one another and their environment. She uses photography and text to find ways of rendering invisible structures visible. In doing so, the aim of her work is to break down dichotomies and instead establish circular logics. In short, in her work she explores the relationship between power structures and infrastructures.
Her work has 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
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)
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”
other //
2024
„To Spiral, Drip, And Meander“ | Artistic Research Field Trip
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