Bio
Caterina Renaux Hering works 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 materials at surface level 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 in 2023 finished her master degree in Fine Arts at Universität der Künste – UDK, under the mentorship of Professor Valérie Favre.
Selected Press
Tagespiegel article by Christiane Meixner
CV
CATERINA RENAUX HERING
08.06.1985 – Brusque, SC, Brazil
Visual Artist / Costume Designer / Music Producer / Performer – Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2023 | Master of Fine Arts, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany
2005–2008 | Bachelor in Digital Design, Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), São Paulo, Brazil
2005 | Certificate in Video Art, IED, Barcelona, Spain
2004 | Fashion Design, Faculdade Santa Marcelina (FASM), São Paulo, Brazil
2003 | Certificate in Fashion Illustration, SENAC, São Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Traces of Touch, Solo Exhibition, Nadan Gallery, Berlin, DE
Copy Shop, Group Exhibition, Number 1 Main Road, Berlin, DE
2024
Moonarij x C.R.H., Duo Exhibition, Artefact Gallery, Berlin, DE
C.R.H. x Artefact, Solo Exhibition, Artefact Gallery, Berlin, DE
Each Scent Tells, Each Hung Bell, Solo Exhibition, RAER Scents, Berlin, DE
Tears of Joy, Solo Exhibition, CAA Berlin, Mercator Höfe, DE
Waste of Space to Space the Waste, Group Exhibition, Astral Junction, Berlin, DE
2023
Blushing out of Blue, Solo Exhibition, Artefact Gallery, Berlin, DE
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2014 | Artist-in-Residence, Takt Kunstraum, Berlin, DE
2010 | O Divino, De Repente — Nominated Best Short Film, Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (Co-animator)
2009 | O Divino, De Repente — Best Short Film, Anima Mundi Animation Festival (Co-animator)
2006 | Selected Artist-in-Residence, Mamori Art Lab, Amazon, BR
COSTUME & PERFORMANCE
Development of experimental silicone and textile costumes integrating visual, sculptural, and performative
elements for Frau Fisch.
Selected performances:
UFA Fabrik Boulevard Festival, Berlin, DE
SO36, Berlin, DE
Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin, DE
Purple Ride, Berlin, DE
West Germany, Berlin, DE