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.

At the start of 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 takes an empathetic look at our intimate difficulty 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 are offered to the public via new technologies. Her research addresses themes such as collective memory, social and cultural identity, and the body as subjectivity.

Pauline Zenk has exhibited at MRAC Occitanie (Sérignan), Lieu-commun (Toulouse), Memento (Auch), Pavillon Blanc (Colomiers), Produzentengalerie (Hamburg), Ventana Galerie (Sao Paulo). She has held residencies at Ateliers de Plessix-Madeuc (Bretagne), Taller 7 (Medellin, Colombia), Estudio Lamina (Sao Paulo).