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Madeleine Brunnmeier (born 1995) is a Berlin-based artist working across photography, video, installation and image-making. She studied Visual Communication at the Universität der Künste Berlin and spent a semester at Musashino Art University Tokyo in 2022. Her studies were shaped by moving image, illustration and printmaking, alongside interdisciplinary artistic practices.

Her work combines close observation with staging, material experimentation and sculptural approaches, alongside an interest in associative and nonlinear forms of narration across image, text and space. Starting from familiar objects, gestures or situations, she rearranges and reconstructs them through subtle shifts in context, scale and material. Humor and ordinary moments often serve as a way into works that slowly open up through closer attention and association.

Alongside her artistic practice, Brunnmeier works on music videos, animation, publications and visual material for artists, musicians and cultural institutions.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Photoville Festival, Sarajevo Photography Festival and PhEST, and she held her first solo exhibition at Culterim Gallery in 2023. Publications and features include The Times Literary Supplement, Photography+, UNWOVEN Magazine and Der Greif. In 2023, her self-published photobook Gestalten received the Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (Silver).

Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2026 PASSING TRESPASSING, group show, Spoiler Aktionsraum, Berlin (D)

2025 NON AUTHORIZED HONORARY, group show, Spoiler Aktionsraum, Berlin (D)

2025 EXPOSURE FESTIVAL , Contemporary Calgary (CAN)

2024 OD PHOTO PRIZE, Open Doors Gallery, Dandi Battersea, London (UK)

2024 RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE MARRAKECH (MA)

2024 MAKE IT REAL – STAGED NARRATIVE IN PORTRAITURE, Temu House, Kuala Lumpur (MY)

2024 LE LANGUAGE DES IMAGES, Off des Rencontres d‘Arles, Arles (F)

2024 PHOTOVILLE Festival, New York City, New York (US)

2024 SARAJEVO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, Sarajevo (S/W)

2024 SEVEN SEEDS – COMMUNICATION UNDER TREES”, Port Journeys Project / associated program of the Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (JP)

2024 EXCESS, Group Show, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin (D)

2023-24 DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS, Silber, Wanderausstellung International u.A. Frankfurter Buchmesse (D), GOETHE INSTITUT Bordeaux (F), GOETHE INSTITUT Peking (CHN), GOETHE INSTITUT
Hong Kong (HKG)

2023-24 UNPUBLISHED PHOTO 2023 (UP23), Runner-up, Group Show and Award, Museo delle Culture Lugano, (CH)

2023 BIG PICTURE, Group Show, iii house, Xi'an (CHN)

2023 BACKSHOP, Solo Show, Culterim Gallery, Berlin (D)

2023 BILDER SCHREIBEN, WÖRTER ZEICHNEN, Group Show, Verwalterhaus, Berlin (D)

2023 HAMMER SHOW, Group Show, Studio Huette, Galerie Zuostant, Berlin (D)

2022 MAU OPEN CAMPUS, Musashino Art University, Kodaira, Tokyo (JP)

2021 MORGEN, Group Show, Domäne Dahlem, Berlin (D)

2021 TABOOK FESTIVAL, Group Show, Tabór, Czech Republic (CZ)

2020 STADT FINDET KUNST, Kunst-Aktion im öffentlichen Raum/Kommunale Galerie Berlin (D)

2020 STUDIO HUETTE x KUNSTHALLE(N) TOGGENBURG, Group Show, Freie Republik Bad Hemberg (CH)

2020 SAMMLUNG HUETTE, Group Show, Studio Huette, Berlin (D)

2019 ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Screening Deutschlandweiter Wettbewerb, Haus für Poesie, Berlin (D)

2019 SPLIT-LEVEL, Group Show, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin (D)

2019 TRASHSPOTTING, Group Show, Bozen (IT)

2018 ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Screening New Talents aus Hochschulen, Haus für Poesie, Berlin (D)

2018 - 2023 Rundgänge/ Jahresausstellungen Universität der Künste Berlin (D)

Madeleine Brunnmeier Berlin Artist Photographer Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany Deutschland Künstlerin Universität der Künste Berlin Bewegtbildklasse Illustration

China Madeleine Brunnmeier Berlin Artist Photographer Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany Deutschland Künstlerin Universität der Künste Berlin Bewegtbildklasse Klasse Illustration Wagenbreth

Studio Huette Madeleine Brunnmeier Berlin Artist Photographer Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany Deutschland Künstlerin Universität der Künste Berlin Bewegtbildklasse Illustration

Selected Awards & Nominations

2024 LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DE MARRAKECH, winner

2024 SARAJEVO PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, second prize winner

2024 KUALA LUMPUR PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS, Finalist

2024 BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL, Finalist

2023 MATERIALS MATTER, Textile Exchange x Magnum Photos: Runner- up ("Gestalten")

2023 DEUTSCHER FOTOBUCHPREIS, Kategorie "Studentische Abschlussarbeit" ("Gestalten" Artbook)

2019 ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Screening Deutschlandweiter Wettbewerb ("Poem about Death")

2018 ZEBRA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, Screening New Talents aus Hochschulen ("Dunkel war's" group project)

Selected Publications & Features

UNWOVEN MAGAZINE VOL 2 , Textile Exchange

MAKE IT REAL, Staged Narrative in Portraiture, Exhibition catalogue

THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (TLS), Issue No. 6326

GESTALTEN (2023), Art Book, Artphilein Books (CH)

(Feel free to reach out for a copy via email – I still have some in stock in Germany!)

UP23 (2023), Exhibition catalogue, Museo delle Culture Lugano, (CH)

SWISS WORLD TV, Video Feature about UP23

DER GREIF GUEST ROOM, "Happy accidents: embracing mistakes"

BILDER SCHREIBEN WÖRTER ZEICHNEN, Was wir mit Illustrationen machen können, Wagenbreth, Henning

UNWOVEN MAGAZINE, Textile Exchange

MORGEN, Exhibition catalogue, UdK/Museum Domäne Dahlem

SPLIT-LEVEL, Exhibition catalogue, UdK/ Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße

KWERFELDEIN, Fotomagazin (online)

BERLINER ZEITUNG, Zebra Poetry Film Festival

Selected Clients

Textile Exchange

The TLS

LLES

Musicboard Berlin

Moeon Berlin

Art Center Berlin

VisitBerlin

LIN

Ruohan Wang

Berlin University of the Arts

Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

FiredUpSpace

Berliner JugendFORUM

Dagobert

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