I work with photography and collage, moving between analog and digital techniques.
Drawing on archival imagery, I am interested in the traces of memory, image construction
and social attributions inscribed within photographic images. Through transformation
and recontextualization, fictional portraits emerge — fragile visual figures that elude
unambiguous interpretation.
In my work, I intervene with hand-cut, mounted masks that conceal, shift, or replace faces.
This creates moments of disorientation in which familiarity and strangeness merge. The
figures move between presence and absence, between visibility and concealment.
I do not view photography as a medium that fixes reality, but rather as an open space
– a place where identity, perception and social images are constantly being renegotiated.

Sabrina Jung
*1978 in Neuss, Germany

Education
2025 – Present
M.A. in Art Therapy
Sigmund Freud University, Berlin, Germany
2001 – 2007
Diploma in Photography and Communication Design (with distinction)
Class of Prof. Jörg Sasse
Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, Germany
2005
Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
1999 – 2001
Media Designer for Digital and Print Media


Teaching, Workshops & Projects
2026
Collage Workshop "The Me"
Beast Bornholm, Denmark
2025
Guest Lecturer, Department of Art and Material Culture,
Technical University of Dortmund
"Collage in Contemporary Photography"
2025 I 2019 I 2018
Collage Workshop on "Friendship"
"Photo Archive" Workshops
Kunstverein Bahnitz, Germany
2019
Panel Discussion: „Aschersleber Gespräche – 30 Jahre Mauerfall“
Panelist with the project "Ostfrauen - Wendezeit"
2018 – 2020
"Smallworld Brandenburg Blog" (Co-Initiator)
2014 – 2024
"Fuchsbau – Zimmer für Freunde & Gäste"


Curatorial and institutional work
2017 – Present
Kunstverein Bahnitz e.V. (Co-Founder)
2019 – 2022
Board Member, Wredow Foundation, Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany
2006 – 2010
"Weisser Salon" – A Curatorial Project (Co-Initiator)


Arts Education & Community Arts
Biographical Art Projects on East German Identity
in collaboration with Kunstverein Bahnitz
funded by Plattform Kulturelle Bildung Brandenburg
Conceptualization and execution of community workshops, public dialogues,
publications, and exhibitions
2025
"Childhood & Youth in Bahnitz"
Community art project combining photography and oral history
2019
"East German Women – The Fall of the Berlin Wall" (Ostfrauen – Wendezeit)
Multi-disciplinary project combining portrait photography and oral history
2018
"Landscape in Transition – Places of Childhood | Then and Now"I
Intergenerational workshop and exhibition combining photography and oral history

Awards, Grants & Nominations Selection
2026 Artist in Residence, Beast, Bornholm, Denmark
2024 Nomination, Villa Aurora Fellowship, Los Angeles, USA
2022 Project Grant, "Neustart Kultur", Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
2021 Project Grant, "Neustart Kultur", VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany
2021 Project Grant, Ministry of Science, Research and Culture
of the State of Brandenburg, Germany
2020 Working Grant, Ministry of Science, Research and Culture
of the State of Brandenburg, Germany
2020 Nomination "Stiftungspreis Fotokunst", Alison & Peter Klein Foundation,
Germany


SOLO SHOWS Selection
2023 Art x Nature, Wintergarten Floristik x Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
2021 Rethinking Now, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
2012 Beutetiere, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich, Schweiz
2011 Snake Handling, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin (two person show)
2010 Masken, Galerie Zink, München
2007 Bühnen Kulissen Modelle, Kunsthaus Essen


Group shows Selection
2026 Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning
2026 Family Crinkles, Lobe Block, Berlin
2026 Mind Shapes, Alte Feuerwache, Berlin
2024 Aufbruch/Umbruch, Galerie M, Potsdam
2024 Wall of BÄM!, Art Cologne, And she was like: BÄM!, Köln
2024 Mother, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
2024 Schöne Aussichten, Kunsthalle Bahnitz (C)
2023 Who´s afraid of stardust – Positionen queerer Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus Nürnberg (C)
2023 Flüchtigkeit des Augenblicks, Kunsthalle Bahnitz (Brandenburg) (C)
2022 Idylle, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
2022 Art Düsseldorf, Galerie Gisela Clement
2021 Sehnsucht & Ahnung, Kooperation mit Ensemble Ruhr, Maschinenhalle Essen
2021 Art Cologne, Galerie Gisela Clement
2021 Die Freiheit, frei zu sein, Kunsthalle Bahnitz (Brandenburg) (C)
2021 Landeinwärts: Einblick – Ausblick, Landtag Brandenburg, Potsdam (C)
2020 faces-traces, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn
2020 Stiftungspreis Fotokunst 2020, KUNSTWERK, Alison & Peter Klein Stiftung, Nussdorf (C)
2020 Heile Welt, Kunsthalle Bahnitz, Brandenburg (Brandenburg) (C)
2019 Gezielte Setzungen – Übermalte Fotografie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Sprengel Museum,
Hannover (C)
2019 Über Grenzen, Kunsthalle Bahnitz (Brandenburg) (C)
2019 Neuss Foto, Städtische Galerie, Neuss (C)
2018 The female Gaze II, Studiogalerie Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2018 The female Gaze I, Kunsthaus Erfurt
2018 Sehnsucht nach Landschaft, Kunsthalle Bahnitz (Brandenburg)
2016 Kopf und Kragen, Galerie der Stadt Backnang (C)
2016 Mit anderen Augen, Kunsthaus Nürnberg (C)
2016 l‘Autre visage, Centre photographique Pôle Image, Rouen, F
2016 Quovadis, Kunst & Denker, Düsseldorf
2016 Geschenkt. Gekauft. Gefunden., Münchner Stadtmuseum
2016 Mit anderen Augen, Kunstmuseum Bonn (C)
2016 Materialeffekte, Internationaler Marianne Brandt Preis, Industriemuseum Chemnitz
2015 Baywatch, Galerie Hartwich, Sellin
2015 Landschaf(f)tkunst V, Neuwerder (Brandenburg) (C)
2013 Field Work – Kunstfotografie aus Deutschland, Det ny Kastet, Thisted, DK
2012 mock room, brutto gusto, Berlin
2012 Eros & Thanatos – Sammlung Rusche, Spinnerei, Leipzig
2012 Cliffhanger, Minken & Palme, Berlin
2011 Rundblick 2011 – Schöne Wahrnehmung, Temporary Gallery, Köln (C)
2011 Nullportrait, Galerie Zink, Berlin
2011 Het is aan, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Les questions sont plus denses que les réponses, general Public, Berlin
2011 Taste my photons, Noorderlicht Gallery, Groningen, NL
2010 Behind the billboard, Weisser Salon x MK Galerie, Berlin
2010 Genre, Kunstraum t27, Berlin
2010 Der Himmel leuchtet, Galerie Rupert Pfab, Düsseldorf
2010 Sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects, Depot Dam, Antwerpen, BE (C)
2010 Girl Overkill, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2010 Madonna Psycho Slut, Grimmuseum, Berlin
2010 NowHere, Weisser Salon x Centrum for Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, NL
2009 Spuren, Kunstraum t27, Berlin
2009 middle of nowhere, LUMP Gallery, Raleigh, USA
2009 Immodest proposals, Weisser Salon x Version Fest, Eastern Expansion, Chicago, USA
2009 Noise, Weisser Salon x Raum für Kunst & Musik, Köln
2008 Newcomer Photo España, Complejo El Aguila, Madrid (C)
2008 Mind the Gap, Weisser Salon x Version Fest, Country Club, Chicago, USA

(C) Catalogue


books Selection
2024 Good Mothers I Queers
2019 Ostfrauen – Wendezeit, Hrsg. Sabrina Jung & Claudia König, Kunstverein Bahnitz e.V.
2005 Verschwinden (Otzenrath - ein Dorf verschwindet)

Publications Selection
Who´s afraid of stardust? – Positionen queerer Gegenwartskunst, Hrsg. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2023
Stiftungspreis Fotokunst, Hrsg. KUNSTWERK Stiftung Alison & Peter Klein, 2020
Gezielte Setzungen. Übermalte Fotografie in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Hrsg. Sprengel Museum,
Hannover, 2019
Public Folder „Golden Record“, Hrsg. John Harten, 2017
Public/Private/Portrait, mossless 4, Hrsg. Romke Hoogwaerts & Charlotte Cotton, 2016
Mit anderen Augen, Hrsg. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2016
Rising, 100 young artists to keep an eye on, daab Verlag, 2011
Schöne Wahrnehmung, Hrsg. Kirschenpflücker e.V., 2011
Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses & Effects, Antwerpen, Hrsg. Time to meet, 2010
Public Folder Issue #2 „The Me“, Hrsg. John Harten, 2006
Public Folder Issue #0, rave / change, Hrsg. John Harten, 2005