Karin Verbru
Intermedial artist
[email protected]
Based in Mexico City

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RASTROS

Rastros is a documentary film (2024) that explores the wounds left on the body by various life events. Starting from the idea that memories…

  • Design

    Directed and Produced by Karin Verbru

  • Music

    Alina Amozurrutia, Karin Verbru, Joanna Książkiewicz

  • Cinematography

    Karin Verbru, Brianda Suárez

  • Edition and color correction

    Quetzalli Sánchez Lira and Max Bañuelos

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RESONANCIA

Harnessing the power of voice, plants, water, pigments, sensitivity, and dance to imprint a fabric, this transformative process embodies a collective artistic performance.

  • Team

    Karin Verbru, Deva Baumbach, Amaranta Jacome, Claudia Llanos, El Huele Flores, Mariano López Cora

  • Media

    Natural pigments on fabric, ashes, charcoal

  • Location

    Amecameca, México. IZTAC.

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TESTIGOS: EL RASTRO DEL TACTO

An installation, composed of fabrics, pigments, clay, bioplastic, and felt, transforms the imprints of women’s bodies—captured during the making of the documentary Rastros—into a…

  • Design

    Karin Verbu

  • Place

    Exhibited for the first time in the Women Museum of Mexico City

  • Characteristics

    An installation in dialog with the documentary "Rastros"

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DE+VENIRES

Performatic paintings made by the wind, sun rain, time, altitude and my hand. Exhibit in Northern Ireland.  

  • Design

    Karin Verbru

  • Media

    Natural pigments on fabric

  • Location

    Limivady, Northern Ireland

  • Field

    Paintings, Photography

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DERRUMBE

Exploring the Paradox of Cement and Creation: A Performance on Destruction

  • Design

    Karin Verbru

  • Field

    Performance and Photography

  • Location

    Croatia

  • Media

    Cement, concrete, tiles, straw

  • Collaborators

    Bianka Marković and Andrija Zokić

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April 4, 2023

DESTIERRE

Intermedial experimental project about the relationship between cement and the earth through painting and photography with the use of organic and inorganic matter (roots,…

  • Design

    Karin Verbru

  • Location

    Galería Santuario Cancun

  • Field

    Painting and Photography

  • Media

    Cement and Pigments on canvas

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CIRCULARES

A 4-meter diameter collaborative painting that captures the spirit of the Echo Valley community in the Pyrenees directed by teacher Laura Quintanilla for Lo…

  • Design

    Laura Quintanilla and Karin Verbru

  • Location

    Echo, Spain

  • Residence

    Lo Mon Contemporaneo

  • Media

    Acrylics on Fabric

  • Fields

    Painting and Performance

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HONGOS

This is a series of pictures that embrace several accidents in the process of brewing natural pigments. They uncover a hidden message: nature reveals…

  • Design

    Karin Verbru and Nature itself

  • Media

    Photography

  • Materials

    Rotten natural pigments

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DOORS

“Doors Around The Globe” is a global project dedicated to documenting the encounters around painting murals in doors. This initiative traveled across more than…

  • Design

    Karin Verbru with collaborators

  • Countries

    Croatia, UK, México, Turkey, Slovenia, Ireland, Spain, Albania, France

  • Media

    Acrylics on wood

  • Complement

    Poetry, Photography, Recordings

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PLACA

Rounded sculpture made by the rotten rests of ashes and pigments through time.

  • Design

    Made by nature

  • Materials

    Organic matter, ashes, fungus, palo de brazil.

  • Location

    Amecameca, IZTAC, México

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LATIDO Y PULSO

A serie of photographies about the “Heartbeat and Pulse” of using organic matter to do art. Organic Sculptures.

  • Design

    Karin Verbru

  • Client

    Envato

  • Field

    Photography

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