Photo by Felix Brüggemann
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.
CV
CATERINA RENAUX HERING
08.06.1985, Brusque SC - Brazil
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.
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.