Kitrin Winkler based in Berlin, works in the fields of expanded cinema, critical research, photography and video-installation. How history is visible or made invisible and entangled with the contemporary moment is a recurring question in her artistic practice. Her work being concerned with the construction of history- primarily in a post- colonial context can in part be seen as an option for discourse and emancipation.
Her works have been featured and reviewed in a variety of publications including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Monograph series of the Culture Department of the City of Munich and Camera Austria Magazine. She received numerous stipends and grants such as Fulbright Scholarship, the ifa- Arts-Grant and just recently the working stipend for Fine Arts of the Berlin Senate. Her works have recently been shown in the group show ReFraming Worlds: Gender and Mobility during the Colonial Encounter at NGBK + Körnerpark gallery, Berlin, Berlinale-the 67th Berlin International Film Festival, Sektion: Forum Expanded and the 34th Kassel Documentary Film and Video festival.
She holds a BFA in Photography from the University of Applied Sciences, Munich. She was a student assistant at the Katutura Community Art Center, Windhoek, Namibia and the City Varsity, Cape Town, South Africa. She studied Media Arts/ Mass Media research and Art in Public Media Space with Günther Selichar and finished the Master Class Programme Expanded Cinema with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. And pursued an MFA in Photography & Media and Integrated Media with Allan Sekula, Ashley Hunt, Michelle Dizon and Billy Woodberry, amongst others, in the MFA Program at the California Institute of the Arts, US.