between the skin and sea

Spanning three years (2020-2023),  between the skin and sea emerges at a time of great collective upheaval. The hyper-local takes centre-stage; made among the artist’s immediate communities, tales of entanglement, relation, connection and intimacy unfold. Leaning into the shadows, the photographs trace networks of love, grief, kinship, shelter and repair.

Katrin Koenning (born in 1978 in Dortmund, Germany) lives and works in Naarm, Australia.
She studied documentary photography at the Queensland College of Art, at Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia). Pursuing intimacy and interconnection, Katrin Koenning’s work centres around practice as relational encounter. In her extended image-dialogues, Katrin uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces and communities that are fluid and multiplicit