Pauline Zenk

Pauline Zenk was born in 1984 in Marburg, Germany. A graduate of the Kiel School of Fine Arts, she currently works in Berlin.

Early in her career, the artist worked with opposing imaginations, mixing photographs of her own family and childhood with images of anonymous people found on social networks. Cultures, places and people are not only mirrored by the artist’s reinterpretation, they are also reflected in her choice of color palette. She offers an empathetic look at our intimate difficulties in existing, at our complex relationship between the singular and the common, the public and the private, in a world saturated with images where bodies offer themselves to the public via new technologies. Her research addresses themes such as collective memory, social and cultural identity, and the body as subjectivity.

In 2017, Pauline Zenk won the Grand Prix Occitanie de l’Art contemporain presented at Lieu Commun in Toulouse. She has exhibited at the BADESC Cultural Foundation and the Muséo de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil. She was selected for residencies at Friche à la Belle de mai (Marseille), Taller 7 (Medellin, Colombia) and E-studio Lamina (Sao Paulo). In September 2024, she exhibited her work at the “Art madness” show at Schönleinstr in Berlin.