Selected CV
Born 1966 in Essen, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin
Artistic Practice
Tina Winkhaus is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersection of photography and digital image construction. Drawing on an extensive archive of her own photographs, she builds complex pictorial worlds in which individual figures, animals, objects and environments are photographed separately and brought together through a highly detailed process of digital composition.
Winkhaus describes this method as “Analog AI”: the resulting images may possess the seamlessness associated with artificially generated imagery, while every visual element originates in her own photographic material and every compositional decision remains artist-led. Her practice explores cultural memory, identity, social roles, beauty, nature and the shifting meanings attached to familiar images and symbols.
Education & Biography
1987–1989
Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie, Munich, Germany
1990–1995
Study and working years in New York and London
Since 1999
Lives and works in Berlin
Selected Institutional Exhibitions & Presentations
2012
5 Minutes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
presented within A Shaded View on Fashion Film
2011
Desire, Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway
2010
Die Unsterblichkeit der Sterne, Kunstmuseum Solingen, Germany
Visionen von Schrecken und Hoffnung, Museum Voswinckelshof, Dinslaken, Germany
Friendly Footage, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Germany
Mode und neue Medien in der Kunst, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Selected Collections
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Germany
C Collection Lichtenberg
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026
HM4T 4 EVR, janinebeangallery, Berlin
23 October 2026 – 6 February 2027
2014
It’s My Pleasure to Serve You, Gallery 206, Berlin
2011
Unter Tage, Shot by God, Direktorenhaus, Berlin
2010
Sorrow & Eternal Sadness, Tape Modern, Berlin
Selected Awards
Winner, International Portrait Photography Award
Honourable Mention, Annual Photography Award, Fine Art