Carolin Seeliger

Artist Statement
Vita
Exhibitions

In my artistic work, I explore the human influence on the sea and our associated emotions. In cooperation with scientists, authors, collectives and the sea as an active actor, I explore questions about new possible forms of human and non-human coexistence, connection and cross-species learning. Since 2018, I have been working on micro- and macroplastics and the role of algae in the oceans, especially in seemingly untouched places such as the deep sea and the Arctic. I work with experimental, analog and digital photography, often leaving their two-dimensionality and create expansive, walk-in objects that have been shown internationally in galleries and public spaces (Berlin, Copenhagen, Nice, Oberammergau). My aim is always to create moments of contact, connection or interaction based on my own artistic position. In workshops and collective-participative work, I explore questions of individual or collective action, authorship and co-creation.Together with Gernot Seeliger, I run the producers‘ gallery Heit Berlin, which focuses on site-specific exhibitions.

Vita

* 1975

            2023

Art residency on the polar expedition ship Cape Race (circumnavugation of Spitsbergen)

            2020

Founding of artist group Traces

2019 – 2024

Artistic research and collaboration with marine biologists and scientists on marine plastic and algae

2011 – 2024

Co-founder and co-manager of Gallery Heit, Berlin

2006 – 2008

Book project with journalist T. Wenzel (Deutschlandradio Kultut)

2003 – 2006

photography studies, Lette Verein, Berlin

1995 – 2000

 social work studies (Diploma), FH Cologne, focus on photography/media pedagogy

Exhibitions and Grants (Selection)

2024

Everything is fine – groupshow, Galerie Georg Nothelfer

2023

Salty Embrace – groupshow, Salon75, Copenhagen

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Slippery Slope – art intervention with K. Köster and D. Kupferberg, groupshow watermarks, Ingrid Bischoff Stiftung, Prierow

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shortlisted for EMB (European Marine Board) (with Kathrin Köster, Daniel Kupferberg and marine scientist Soli Levi)

2022

unravel, groupshow enter:nature at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin

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WANDER, groupshow , Oberammergau

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Weaving Waves- collective weaving, intervention with traces, Havmollen/Ebeltoft, Denmark

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NeustartKultur Stipendium

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NeustartKultur Stipendium

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JubileeX, Gruppenausstellung, frontviews, Berlin

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Encounters in landscape, groupshow, Spoiler Zone

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Ocean Future Ambassador Award 2. Platz, with K. Köster, D. Kupferberg

2021

bbk Berlin – studio grant

2020

The Artist as Curators Art vol. X, groupshow, SchauFenster, Berlin

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Traces, groupshow and workshops, SchauFenster, Berlin

2019

Blister, with Lee Stevens, Berlin Weekly

2017

Howl of the Coconut, groupshow and workshops, BSMNT/Spinnerei, Leipzig

2016

Reinhard, Fram 7, Berlin

2015

Soulcamp, soloshow, Heit Berlin

2013

The Libidinal Net in Contemporary Photography, class Josephine Pride, groupshow, Heit Berlin