Hi, my name is Manuela Braunmüller (*1993), I am a lens based artist living in Munich/Germany. The main focus in my work is on the relationship between humans and other animals.
mail(at)manuelabraunmueller.com
0049 176 349 163 39
Three Weeks
(2022-ongoing)
“Three Weeks’’ is a project based on the topic of biodiversity loss, reflecting on the complex relationship humans have with insects by unraveling various characteristics of the butterfly.
One Chicken
(2021)
Originally only found in the jungle of Southeast Asia thousands of years ago, the chicken nowadays is the most widespread bird on earth. Modern livestock farming has put it on number one of the vertebrates used on land, where chickens nowadays take up a share of over 90%. In “One Chicken”, I photographed the skeleton of a chicken – each bone individually.
Day One
(2021)
Series of a chick on its first day after the hatch.
Cow's Milk
(2018)
cowsmilk.org
How does the process of milk production work? Why do cows produce milk in the first place? What is our, the human‘s role, in the production steps and how are these connected to each other?
Confronted with these questions, I wanted to get a clear understanding of the dairy industry. Cow‘s Milk is the result of my one year long research and photographic documentation of different cow farms, facilities and institutions. The series portrays the industrialized process of cow‘s milk production, following all the steps along the way:
the semen production bank, where the semen of bulls is being collected
the preparation of the semen in the lab
the artificial insemination of the cows
the birth of the calves
the milking and the slaughtering of the cow the processing of the dairy in the dairy factory
Duck Feathers in Blood
(2019)
Chicken's Feathers (ongoing)
The Weather Is
(2023-ongoing)
“The Weather Is” is a long-term project exploring how the climate crisis transforms our sense of normality—an experience once closely tied to the rhythm of the seasons and their characteristic weather patterns. The pictures portray moments of shifting weather across spring, summer, autumn, and winter, captured mostly from the vantage point of the photographer's flat in the city center of Munich.
These quiet, everyday urban scenes reflect the gradual dissolution of familiar rhythms, seemingly removed from the visible destruction and loss often linked to the climate crisis. However, weather itself serves as a powerful reminder that we are not separate from the natural world.
For generations, our sense of time has been rooted in these age-old weather patterns, and experiencing them in disarray disrupts our relationship to the world and underscores our interconnectedness with the environment.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 - Blue Skies - Nodepressionroom
2024 - One Chicken - U-Bahn Galerie Bezirksausschuss Maxvorstadt
2024 - Tetrap-Act-on-Foodwaste München
2024 - Café Lozzi - Gefieder
2022 - Yeast Photo Festival - Food is Identity
2022 - Horizonte Zingst - About Food?
2021 - Ostkreuz Masterclass - Hi How Are You
2021 - Noorderlicht Festival - The Makable Mind
2020 - Futures Digital Festival
Publications / Interviews
emerge Magazin
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Und Magazin
Rainbow Refugees Magazine
fluter
Greenpeace Magazin
die Motive
20er Züricher Straßenzeitung
Contact
mail(at)manuelabraunmueller.com
0049 176 349 163 39
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