Babi Brüller

Babi Brüller was born in Munich in 1992. She is a visual artist, musician, and master woodcarver. She studied art at the AdBK Munich under professors Albert Hien and Sebastian Tröger. For years, her art has explored her family’s Jewish heritage. Her work incorporates autobiographical experiences while examining current social structures and the scope of individual action, as well as the limitations imposed by authoritarian groups of various social compositions and political beliefs.

Her large-scale paintings feature groups of androgynous individuals, such as choir singers, schoolchildren, and soldiers, in surreal spaces. Her portraits of faces are primarily based on her own likeness or that of her contemporaries. The paintings reveal the strange dynamics inherent to collectives where group members are subjected to totalitarian power structures. Brüller deliberately uses a figurative painting style because she believes that the horrors of war, crisis, and oppression cannot be depicted abstractly.