Sabrina Jung is a contemporary artist working with photography and collage. Her work explores the construction of identity, gender and social roles. Within her portrait series she primarily uses archival black and white photographs of professional photo studios. By processing the photograph using various digital techniques and manual montage, she transfers these photographs out of their formerly private context. In doing so, she foregrounds the way in which the person was staged to playfully emphasize, break or negate the social role models we are living with.
Jung critically examines the photographic medium and the photographer's gaze, creating images that encourage the viewer to reflect on power relations, gender equality and the construction of self-images.

Sabrina Jung studied photography at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, Germany. Her work had been exhibited at Kunstmuseum Bonn, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Centre photographique Pôle Image Rouen, Münchner Stadtmuseum, KUNSTWERK Eberdingen-Nussdorf among others. She was nominated for the Stiftungspreis Fotokunst by the Alison & Peter Klein Foundation in 2020 and received a working Grant by the federal state of Brandenburg (MWFK) in the same year. In 2021 she was awarded a project grant by VG Bild-Kunst, followed by a project grant by Kunstfonds Bonn in 2022.
Sabrina Jung lives and works in Berlin.

Vita
1978 born in Neuss, Germany

2001–2007 Folkwang University of the arts, Essen (Diploma with distinction)
2005 Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
2006–2017 Co-Initiator of the curatorial project „weisser Salon“

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