“Tina Krüger, born in 1988 in Germany, is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, documentary filmmaker, visual anthropologist, and graphic designer with an MA degree in Visual Anthropology from Leiden University in the Netherlands. Since 2008 she lives and works in Maputo, Mozambique.
She is the co-founder of the creative production company Aguacheiro Design & Multimédia, and the director and co-founder of emptyroom.art, a creative hub in Maputo.
In her work, she is interested in topics around identity, corporality, sensory knowledge, feminism, unusual perspectives of everyday life, environmental issues, and the intersection between anthropology and art. The way she works is in a conjunction with scholarly and creative research, auto-ethnography and abstracted expression.
She sees her art practice as a way to process her own personal struggles and express them in a way to provoke others into reflection & critical thinking. Her preferred mediums are video, photography and the written word.
AWARDS
2018 Silver Medal – Audience Award “Living Art” at 12 Months Film Festival
2018 Bronze Medal – Best Feature Documentary “Living Art” at 12 Months Film Festival
2017 Silver Medal “Kitchen’s Orchestra” at Asia South East Short Film Festival
2017 Award of Merit “Living Art” at IndieFEST Film Awards
2017 Best One Minute “Kitchen’s Orchestra” at Lake View International Film Festival
2017 2nd place “Kitchen’s Orchestra” at North Portland Unknown Film Festival
2017 Best feature film “Living Art” at Women’s Only Entertainment Film Festival
2017 Best micro-short documentary “Kitchen’s Orchrestra” at Berlin Flash Film Festival
2015 Jury Impact Award “Gold of agriculture” at SIMA – Social Impact Media Awards
2015 Best One Minute “Kitchen’s Orchestra” at TOFF – The Online Film Festival
2014 Honorable Mention “Foreign in my own country” at Interfilm Berlin
2014 1st place Best One Minute “Kitchen’s Orchrestra” at Cinedans Festival Amsterdam
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Crescent Collection – Gallery Kulungwana, Photogrpahy installation
2019 LOOPS – MOZAMBICAN NATIONAL ART MUSEUM (MZ), Curation & Participation in collective exhibition – Advisor: Simon Njami
2018 MYSTERY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS – KUNSTVEREIN SCHWERIN (DE), Showroom „Foreign in my own country“ (documentary), collective exhibition
2014 WAITING ROOM – GOETHE ZENTRUM MAPUTO (MZ), video art installation”