Carolin Müller (b. 1989, Germany) is a multimedia artist and scholar living and working in Leipzig, Germany. Her work spans across the fields of ecological printmaking, sound and installation through which she explores the dilemmas inherent in systems of language to capture the continuity of human existence despite entropic decay and systemic desiccation. Her work reimagines printmaking as a space of convergence between material, body, and language, using ecological methods in art and workshops. She developed the technique of water lithography to record what is held on and by the surfaces of natural water bodies. Her water lithography is an artistic research practice that engages communities by the water to observe the stories carried by water on its surface. Doing so, it approaches water bodies in a dialogic way to investigate the self-manifestation of water by listening, observing and capturing residues on waters' surfaces.

 

She holds degrees in Art Education (BA/MA, TU Dresden), Film Studies (MA), and German Studies (PhD, The Ohio State University), and studied printmaking under Michael Loderstedt and Sergio Soave in the U.S. She also trained as an ethnomusicologist of brass music culture in protest and postcolonial settings. Her research "Resonant Inheritance: Sonic Transformation in Namibian Brass" has been awarded an FWF Principal Investigator Grant in collaboration with the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien.

 

Her prints and installations have been shown in Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, the U.S., Israel/Palestine, with recent exhibitions at space_onbez in Busan, South Korea, the Artists Studios/Art Cube in Jerusalem, LAUDA Fabrikgalerie and Yellow Brick in Athens. She leads workshops on alternative modes of printmaking, such as water lithography workshops at the Leipzig Museum of Printing Arts. She received a Goethe-Institut project grant (2024) for community-based work as part of her ongoing project body.motion.etch and a CultureMovesEurope Individual Mobility Grant for body.motion.etch in Athens/Greece. She has further been invited to international residencies focusing on water and bodily memory in Busan (South Korea), Athens (Greece) and Vermont (USA), awarded with a fellowship by the Vermont Studio Center.