CARLOS CARIMA
Born 1995, Luanda, Angola
Lives and works in Cologne and Duisburg, Germany
EDUCATION
2025 BFA, Painting, University of Fine Arts (HBK), Essen, Germany (Class of Nicola Steglich and Markus Vater)
2025 Art Educator Training, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Black Magic Realism, DOXS DOKS OFF-Space, Cologne, Germany
2023 Dortmund Goes Black (On Quietness and Spirituality), Schauspielhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (Solo Performance)
2022 Dreaming Heads, HBK Essen, Raumprojekt Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 We are each other’s harvest, Mouches Volantes, Cologne, Germany
2025 Afro German Art, Galerie der Künstler, BBK-Munich, Munich, Germany
2025 Schere – Stein – Papier, BBK-Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2025 HBK Degree Show, Campus Essen, Essen, Germany
2024 Generation(s) – Visual Art Collection, Munich City Library, Munich, Germany
2024 Rituals of Regulation, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
2023 Body and Soul, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (Experimental Performance)
2023 Proud, Black Owned, Kunsthafen im Rhenania, Cologne, Germany
2023 Afrofuturismus, Tiba-Cologne Space Gallery, Kulturbunker, Cologne, Germany
2023 Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R), UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2022 RuBug – Festival for Urban Art “kab”, Herne, Germany (Performance)
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2025 Nominee, “Junge Positionen NRW” Art Award, Künstlerzeche Unser Fritz 2/3, Germany
2023 Artist-in-Residence, ArToll Kunstlabor – Raum und Wirklichkeit, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
2022 Artist-in-Residence, BSH Artist Lab Munich – “collective (un)learning spaces”, Pathos Theater, Munich, Germany
2022 Finalist, BITTER (SWEET) HOME Artist Lab Munich – “collective (un)learning spaces”, Pathos Theater, Munich, Germany
2022 Scholarship, Deutschlandstipendium, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2026 Artist Talk, Black Pott Stories , PACT Zollverein, UNESCO World Heritage Site Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2025 Workshop Facilitator, Human Machine, Künstlerhaus Bethanien – Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2024 Workshop Facilitator, Black History Month – Discover Together (Children & Youth Program), Black Heroes, Cologne, Germany
2024 Workshop Facilitator, Rituals of Regulation – Participatory Action “Imagination Station” (Children & Youth Program), Wuppertal, Germany
2024 Artist Talk, Rituals of Regulation, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
2022 Guest Speaker, Art and Culture, GET IN – Formation Now Congress, Hamburg, Germany
2022 Gallery Attendant, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
2022 Research Assistant & Librarian, Campus Wuppertal Library, Wuppertal, Germany
2021 Guest Speaker, Empowerment Practices, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2019 Co-Author, No Witness (Short Film) – Vimeo
COLLECTIONS
Private Collection, Atlanta, GA, USA
Private Collection, Berlin, Germany
Private Collection, Cologne, Germany
Private Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Private Collection, Wuppertal, Germany