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Biography

Carola Plöchinger is a photographer and former fashion designer. Based on personal experience, her early work deals with questions of identity and belonging: how origin determines identity, but also why, in a supposedly enlightened time in which gender equality should be the norm, their expression through clothing is still so different. This research has led to the foundation of her former menswear label IO (italian: I) with the aim of questioning the classic perception of roles. Although narratives, materiality and texture of clothing continue to have an influence on Plöchinger's work, the common practice in fashion does not correspond to her idea of value and appreciation of craftsmanship and a sustainable use of resources.

She used a three-month journey from Japan to New Zealand in 2018/19 to realize artistic projects: for investigations of landscape, which on the one hand revolve around the concept of the adopted country, on the other hand with the vulnerability of the landscape and nature itself. This period had a decisive impact on her self-perception as an artist, she began showing her work in 2020.

Plöchinger holds a Master of Arts in Visual Communication of the Berlin University of the Arts.