Paula Muhr
Paula Muhr (1977, Srbija) is a visual artist and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. She completed postgraduate studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig (2009) and is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute of Art History and Visual Studies, Humboldt University in Berlin. Her work has been shown internationally, i.e. at the Fotogalerie Wien, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig, Museum auf Abruf (MUSA) in Vienna, Centre national de l’audiovisuel in Luxembourg, Triennale di Milano, Musee d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain in Liege, Belgium, and the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute in China. In 2014, she won the FEX Award by Künstlerhaus Dortmund, and was shortlisted for the Haus am Kleistpark Art Award in 2017, in Berlin.
In her research-based artistic practise, she explores socio-cultural strategies of constructing sexuality, gender, desire and normality. In her art installations, which combine staged photography, found materials, texts, moving images and sound, she focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of hysteria as female madness, with references on the late 19th and 20th century.
