Caro Mantke
- Anna Lilli Garai
- Jan 26
- 1 min read
Caro Mantke is a Berlin-based artist working with collage, photography, video, sculpture, and installation. She studied visual communication, media art, and fine art at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and is part of the Berlin collective GlueHeads.
Her work starts from the body, especially the female body, using images from magazines, fashion, and advertising. She cuts, rebuilds, and recombines body parts. Arms, legs, skin, and faces are separated, repeated, and fused into figures that feel edited and constructed.
Collage is her main tool, but it extends into space and moving image. The same cut-and-build logic appears in photographs, videos, and installations. Flat images become objects and environments. Her work deals with identity, capitalism, feminism, and posthumanism. Beauty standards, body control, and the way bodies are shaped by visual culture and consumer systems are constant references.
She works with magazine paper, fine art prints, ink, and mixed materials. Images are taken apart and rebuilt into new bodies. They are not portraits, but assembled figures. Alongside her solo practice, she works with GlueHeads on collaborative and large-scale projects. Across all formats, the focus stays on the body as image and as constructed form within media and power structures.
