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)
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)
Selected Exhibitions
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