Corinne Wasmuht was born in 1964 in Dortmund, Germany and now lives and works in Berlin. To create her signature paintings, Wasmuht first takes photographs of dense urban landscapes. She then warps the files in Photoshop, erasing and fading individual figures and details while weaving together multiple scenes. Her work appears pixelated and digitally printed but a close inspection reveals careful brushwork unmistakably crafted by hand; the translation of the image to oil paint on panel is meticulous and can take over a year to complete. Her pieces are often large-scale, enveloping and overwhelming the viewer with stimuli, creating an abstracted panorama that evokes globalization and technology’s hyperspeed of information, finance, and connectivity.

Wasmuht studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and since 2006 has taught at the Staatliche Akademie der Künste Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2014 she received the Käthe Kollwitz Prize.

She has had solo exhibitions at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia; Kunstahalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Germany; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; Kunstverein Bonn; Kunstverein in Hamburg; Kunstverein Hannover; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany; and Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, among others.

Her work was included in the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011 as part of Bice Curiger’s exhibition ILLUMInations. Her paintings have also been featured in exhibitions at the BOZAR, Brussels; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; and Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, among others. 

She is included in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; Bundeskunstsammlung, Germany; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Sammlung Viehof, Mönchengladbach, Germany; and UBS Art Collection, among others.