About
ARTIST BIO
Carolin Meyer is a self-taught interdisciplinary artist & DJ based in London.
She has a BA in History of Art (2018) from the University of Leipzig and an MA in Visual Sociology (2020) from Goldsmiths College with Nina Wakeford as the course convenor. Her work has been published in The Sociological Review, STILL POINT JOURNAL, Vernacular Journal, Protein, DUMP Thoughts Edition One, Era Journal and Gabble Magazine. In 2023, she was appointed Creative Fellow at UCL, where she explored music as research.
Currently, she is an Acme studio holder and an MFA student at the self-led UK alternative art school, School of the Damned (24-present).
Her MA in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths College inspired her approach to foreground material translation of conceptual and social research in her artistic practice spanning moving image, sculpture, sound, installation, text, and live practice. Experimenting with ways, using found objects and audiovisual elements, to make embodied experiences, such as her own experience of transracial adoption at birth (Kurdish-German) and wider social and political everyday phenomena into tangible interventions, she examines which material translation affects an audience to push for empathy, and social change. Her mixed media works often play with the line between infrastructure and sculpture, and she approaches sound in the way of extending the field that affects an audience. Her areas of interest widely include identity and belonging, techno-social transformations, neoliberalism and, de-anthropocentrism.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am interested in art as affective transfer, creating works, often sculptural installations with audiovisual components, that have a physical (positive or negative) effect on an audience; that viscerally affect them and make them feel embodied.
I arrived at this point of interest through my personal experience of transracial adoption (Kurdish Yazidi-German) at birth, which has led me to see the world through a lens of disembodiment. Growing up as a brown child in a white environment, I am especially attuned to the nuances and sensory textures of identity and belonging, the myth of meritocracy, racialisation, white supremacy, class, and, the extra layer that techno-social transformations add to the context of disembodiment ('online embodiment', also referred to as 'metacartesianism' or 'dualism 2.0'). I approach making and sharing art by moving interchangeably between disciplines. Often beginning with something that has made me feel viscerally affected, collating information about it (research stage), interspersed with collecting abandoned objects on the streets and mapping (translation into possible object/installation), I spend time at the studio experimenting with sensory qualities of materials and assemblages in an automatic (unthinking) way. The results of this process I then situate within my concepts and ideas with the emphasis on how an audience is to receive any given artworks and what the space in which the works are shown can give to an audience [like a Gesamtkunstwerk], similarly to what a DJ performance can provide bodies on a dancefloor. This way of making stems from my practice-based postgraduate degree in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths College (2018-2020), where the research came first or was developed alongside creative methodologies, which were then translated into easily accessible, multisensory experiences.
Other concepts that guide my art making are 'making the familiar strange' (a methodological approach, which I encountered in sociology, that involves questioning everyday, mundane, or taken-for-granted social practices to uncover new insights), the Situationists' artistic technique of 'détournement', which involves "turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself" and what Sara Ahmed calls 'Queer Use': "Queer use is to recover a potential from materials that have been left behind – when you do not follow the instructions."
b. 1991, Germany
Education
2018 - 2020 MA Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
2014 - 2018 BA History of Art, University of Leipzig, Germany
2012 - 2014 BA German Philology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany
Past Exhibitions & Screenings
2026 Held in Transit by PISTIL COLLECTIVE, The Old Waiting Room, London
2026 Art Rave 'LET'S DANCE!', Telegraph Hill Festival, London
2026 I WILL BORE MYSELF TO EITHER DEATH OR SELF-ILLUMINATION with Aburridisimes Collective, E66, Barcelona
2026 In Conjuncture with School of the Damned, FILET, London
2026 Rebuilt Babel by Green Grammar, Art'otel Gallery, London
2026 GoingAway.tv Online Live Film Screening by Marc Blazel and Alexander Harding
2025 Indescribable Feelings Film Screening by Deep Focus, Goldsmiths Cinema, London
2025 Attention Without Object by PISTIL COLLECTIVE, Candid Arts Trust, London
2025 Sanford Vitrine, London
2025 FANDOM by BAD ART, London Art Services, London
2025 In Praise of Darkness, Unit 2, St Leonards on Sea
2025 Dream Sequence Film Screening, Staffordshire St, London
2025 Making Meaning with School of the Damned, Turf Project Space, Croydon
2025 World Building by PISTIL COLLECTIVE, Cornerstone Studios, London
2024 Film Screening by Snog Magazine, Goldsmiths College, London
2024 Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 10, London
2024 DUMP 02, FILET, London
2024 Collateral Merger, Highgate Studios, London
2024 The Future of Belonging is Displacement, Camberwell Kabinett, London
2023 Light Beams Under A Bridge Vol. 6, London
2023 Deptford X Fringe, London
2022 Deptford X Fringe, London
2021 On Media. Signals and Connections, Loosen Art, Rome
2019 F(r)ictions, DIY Space for London, London
2019 Residual Matters, St James Hatcham Church, Goldsmiths, London
2017 Soft Tuna, A und V, Leipzig
Creative work
2026 Artist talk @ Green Grammar group exhibition, Art'otel Gallery
2025 Artist Q&A @ Deep Focus film screening, Goldsmiths Cinema
2025 Artist-researcher talk @ Bodies in Digital Transition by DiSCo Journal, Goldsmiths College
2024 Artist-researcher talk @ Sonic Rebellions II
2024 Writing Class @ FIELDNOTES Evening School
2023 Academic article published with The Sociological Review
2020 Event Organisation and Poster Design for independent Derek Jarman Film Screening @ The Montpelier, Peckham, London
2019 Event Organisation and Poster Design for Exhibition Afterparty @ The Five Bells, Peckham, London
2018 Moving Image/Visuals for EVERGREEN by Vix3ns @ Four Quarters Bar, London
2017 Photography and Creative Direction for DJs Niels Poensgen & Brigade, Berlin
2017 Curation of Group Exhibition Soft Tuna @ A und V, Leipzig
2016 Artist Interviews for Nakid Magazine
2015 - 2019 Event and art blog on www.doobiesundboobies.wordpress.com
Prizes & Fellowships
2023 Creative Fellowship Award at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL, London
2019 1st prize in Competition on the Theme of People like You, funded by Wellcome Collection, London
Gigography
22/03/2026 @ Telegraph Hill Festival, London
05/08/2024 @ Malzfabrik, Berlin
20/06/2024 @ Highgate Studios, London
17/11/2023 @ Bunker, Deptford, London
2023 Residency @ George Canning, Camberwell, London
06/11/2021 @ NX Records Shop Launch, New Cross, London
18/12/2019 @ The Old Brewery, Greenwich, London
04/10/2019 @ Bunker, Deptford, London
25/05/2019 @ Isla Ray, Deptford, London
02/02/2019 j.b. Glazer Compact Break Launch @ Grow Tottenham, Tottenham Hale, London
08/12/18 EVERGREEN by Vix3ns @ Four Quarters Bar, Peckham, London
08/06/18 Wurze @ Ostapotheke, Reudnitz, Leipzig
25/05/18 Hinterhofflohmarkt @ Lindenau, Leipzig
25/04/18 Halftime × Feat. Fem w/ enelRAM, Elless nox, Alice in Flames @ Conne Island, Leipzig