Caterina Renaux Hering creates artworks that span a diverse range of media, all driven by the intent to lend forms for the mystifying subjective substances that animate emotions. She engages with drawings, ceramic sculptures, assemblages, music, costumes, and performance as vehicles for crafting a language that resonates with the most delicate and dense aspects of sensibility. Her work places the body at the center of these investigations, exploring themes such as transience, eroticism, delight and duration, in a quest to make sense out of genuine sensation.
Her artistic path begins with a lifelong dedication to drawing. Sketching serves as her Ariadne's thread, as if the confidently pulled long lines acted as guides for navigating the labyrinth of subjectivity, packing depths into shapes and emerging from abstraction towards clarity.
The aesthetics developed by Caterina achieve a unique appearance due to the fact that the artist doesn’t solely interacts with the surface of materials but also engages with how the materiality of the medium itself shapes what is conveyed to the viewer's gaze. To this end, her studio is referred to as a laboratory for experimenting and inventing techniques that playfully mimic the substances central to the themes she explores. Among her chosen materials are resin, silicon, fabrics and suggestive debris, which she entitles “poetic leftovers”. In this process of creative inquiry, accidents and accomplishments are weaved together, yielding novelties, and embracing the unexpected for manufacturing enchanting results.
Caterina was born in 1985, in the south of Brazil and currently lives in Berlin where she recently finished her master degree in Fine Arts at Universität der Künste - UDK, under the mentorship of Professor Valérie Favre.
Awards and Residencies
2014 | Takt Kunstraum (Berlin, DE) | Artist-in-residency.
2010 | Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | O Divino, De Repente - Nominated best short film.
2009 | Anima Mundi Animation Festival | O Divino, De Repente - Won best short film.
2006 | Mamori Art Lab | Amazon forest art residency (Amazonia, Brazil) - Selected artist.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2016 - 2023 | UDK, Universität der Künste - Master Degree in Fine Arts (Berlin, Germany).
2005 - 2008 | IED - Istituto Europeo di Design (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Graduation in Digital Design.
2009 | DRC - Sao Paulo, Brazil. Technician in Web Development.
2005 | IED - Istituto Europeo di Design (Barcelona, Spain). Certificate in Video Art.
2004 | FASM - Faculdade Santa Marcelina (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Fashion Design.
2003 | SENAC (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Certificate in Fashion Illustration.
Exhibitions
2024 | Tears of Joy - Solo exhibition at CAA Berlin, Mercator Höfe, Potsdamer Str. 88A.
2023 | Blushing out of Blue - Solo exhibition at Artefact Gallery / Berlin.
2022 | Klasse Favre at Grisebhach - group exhibition at Grisebach Gallery / Berlin.
Excuse me, I'm looking for the rabbit hole - group exhibition at Kaiserdamm 102 / Berlin.
2020 | Animation for Dead Material - Group Exhibition at Bethanien Art Center / Berlin.
2019 | Salon. der Unabhängingen - Group Exhibition at Gelegenheiten / Berlin.
2018 | Deviation Festival - Group Exhibition at ACUD Macht Neu! / Berlin
2014 | Night Coffee - Group Exhibition - São Paulo / Brazil.
2011 | Mein Fleisch Deinem Geist. Collective exhibition – Lucca Lounge & Bistrot (Santa Catarina, Brazil).
2010 | Amalgamated Ghosts. Collective exhibition - The Week (Sao Paulo, Brazil).
2009 | Emotional System Intellectual Abstraction - solo Exhibition at Area Artis Gallery - São Paulo / Brazil. Night Coffee - Group Exhibition - São Paulo / Brazil.
2009 | Anemic Site - collective exhibition - Espaço Sócio Cultural do Centro de Integração Empresa-Escola (CIEE - Sao Paulo, Brazil).
Projects
Since 2019 | Frau Fisch - Electropoetry for dancing. Singer/ Song writer/ Composer/ Co-producer.
2004 - 2008 | Universeless – Owner/Co-Creator (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Sustainable fashion brand.
2005 – 2008 | Reutilize – Creator/Organizer (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Toy making workshops for poor communities in Brazil.
2006 – 2011 | Inner Multi Art – Co-Creator/Curator (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Multidisciplinary art event for over 3000 people, supported by Sony, Red Bull and Absolut Vodka.
2009 – 2010 | Night Coffee - Creator/Organizer/Co-curator(Sao Paulo, Brazil). Multidisciplinary art happenings hosted in private houses.
2010 – 2012 | Mauxcubio - Co-owner (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Graphic and web design company.
2004 – 2013 | Medusa Sci-fi Solutions (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Bureau for visual affairs.
Diverse Professional Experiences
2005 | Clinch - Shortmovie (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Costume and lettering design.
2006 | Hiperx - Theater Play (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Costume and graphic project.
2007 - 2008 | Angel – Fashion Industry (Santa Catarina, Brazil). Fashion consultancy, 37% increase on sells.
2009 | O Divino, De repente – Animated short movie (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Co-animator.
2011 | Ovo - Installation at MAM (Museu da Imagem e do Som - Sao Paulo, Brazil). Set design.
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