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She has an extensive exhibition activity in Berlin, showcasing her work in notable galleries such as AtelierHof Berlin (2023) Zwitschermaschine Galerie (2018), Lite Haus Gallery (2019), FoYou (2019-2022), Z22 Gallery (2021), VBK Gallery (2021-2022) and AtelierHof (2023), Paxos Biennale (2024), winner of the Solo Exhibition to open the FemFestival in Ingolstadt (2025) sponsored by the Main cultural office of the city in Bavaria.
In addition to her gallery exhibitions, Amaya has also created several urban interventions in cities such as Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, and her hometown of Bogotá. In 2016, she was the first Colombian artist to become a member of VBK (Verein Berliner Künstler) Berlin.
Amaya's artistic training includes studying Audiovisual Media in Bogotá, Fine Art extension at the National University of Colombia, completing postgraduate studies in Morphology at UBA University in Argentina, diploma in erotica and politics Taller Multinacional Mexico, art residency at the Berlin Art Institute in Berlin, she is currently pursuing a diploma in colonialism, history, and culture.
In addition to her artistic pursuits, Carolina Amaya also shares her insights and experiences as a speaker at various events, corporations, and universities. Her speaking topics cover many subjects, including the inspiration, creative process, and meaning behind her artwork, her journey as an artist, personal development, and transformation. She also discusses turning emotions such as fear, shame, and guilt into positive and empowering strength.
In her work, the Colombian and Berlin-based artist Carolina Amaya (*1981) explores the body as a living archive and migratory landscape shaped by memory and transformation.
She understands the body as a sensuous territory where identity and change continuously unfold. Drawing from Indigenous cosmologies and Colombian craft traditions, she merges natural materials, such as bijao leaves, clay, charcoal, coconut containers, raffia, and human hair, with contemporary elements like leather and metal.
Her practice is an ongoing act of reconstruction: fragments of cultural history, personal experience, and collective mythology are recomposed into new formations. Through sculpture, painting, and drawing, she creates immersive environments that invite audiences to inhabit the tensions between intimacy and distance, fragmentation and wholeness. Her works maintain an active dialogue with space, opening a sacred terrain in which different media converge, allowing tensions to surface and new perspectives to emerge.
At the center is always the body; free, animalistic, abundant, and in motion. It acts as both archive and protagonist, embodying processes of migration and continual renewal. Amaya positions her works as catalysts that challenge existing structures and provoke dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity, identity and hybridity.
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