RAPHAELA VOGEL studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Nuremberg at Staedelschule in Frankfurt a.M., and De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL). In addition to scholarships from Gunter-Peill-Foundation Dueren or Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes Bonn, she received awards such as the Columbus Award for Contemporary Art 2015, the Stylepark Award of Staedelschule Frankfurt a. M. in 2014 and has been nominated for the 47th Art Prize of Boettcherstraße Bremen. Her artistic practice opens up an enigmatic world within a variety of themes, materials and techniques: The artist’s repertoire ranges from paintings on animal hides to expansive spatial installations and video sculptures, consisting of roaring sounds, vocals and oversized objects that create entirely unexpected compositions of meaning in multilayered spaces of experience. Evading categorization, her works are designed in a way, that everything occurs equally – the self-made, the found, the composed, the references from different socio-historical or cultural backgrounds as well as fictional narratives and created images.

Since 2015 she has participated in numerous exhibitions, among others solo shows at De Pont Museum, Tilburg (2023), Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2021), Neues Museum, Nuremberg (2020), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2019), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2019), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018), Kunsthalle Basel (2018), Kunstpalais, Erlangen (2018), Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster (2016), Bonner Kunstverein (2015). Group exhibitions include Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2023), 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022), Kunst Museum Winterthur (2022), Kunstverein in Hamburg (2021), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2020), ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2020), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hongkong (2019), Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2019), Foundation Cartier, Paris (2019), Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover (2017), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick (2017), Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam (2017), Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-Do (2016), Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund (2016), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main (2014).