Carolin EidnerGermany

Carolin Eidner (b. 1984, Berlin, DE) creates works at the intersection of philosophical reflection and material experimentation. Her practice moves fluidly between sculpture, painting, video, and installation, often combining pigmented plaster with glass and digital aesthetics to develop hybrid forms that blur traditional genre boundaries. Eidner is known for her unique use of materials—especially her technique of sanding pigmented plaster—which produces surfaces that oscillate between the archaic and the futuristic, the monumental and the intimate.

Her works frequently explore themes of authority, judgment, transformation, and the dissolution of structural order. Geometric compositions appear stable at first glance, only to subtly unravel into poetic ambiguity. Through this tension between abstraction and narrative, Eidner interrogates the fragility of systems—be they visual, social, or symbolic.

Her visual language is marked by recurring contrasts: digital precision meets raw materiality, mythological undertones meet pop-cultural references, monumentality is subverted by humor. Across exhibitions, recurring spatial elements create a compositional rhythm, with each work contributing to a larger conceptual choreography.

Carolin Eidner lives and works in Berlin. She is a graduate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she studied under Rosemarie Trockel, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Erwin Wurm. Her practice has been shaped through international residencies, including at ISCP in New York (2024), CCA Andratx in Mallorca (2023), and Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst in Germany (2011). Eidner has exhibited widely across Europe and the United States, among others, at Polina Berlin Gallery New York (2025), at Aurel Schreiber Berlin (2019), and at Langen Foundation Neuss (2017). Her work is part of several notable public and private collections, including the Bavarian State Painting Collections at the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich), Kunsthaus NRW (Kornelimünster), and the Collection Becker (Cologne). Eidner has received several awards for her innovative material practice, including the 2020 Stiftung Kunstfonds Bonn grant, the NADA Artadia Award (2017) as its first European-based recipient, and the Audi Art Award (2014).