Artist Bio

Self-taught, Berlin-based photographer and artist with a strong focus on Subjective & Conceptual Documentary, Narrative & Portrait Photography as well as experimental editing techniques, digital & analogue. 

Sina’s work is driven by a deep desire to see, feel and understand the social dynamics of urban realities. Through her lens, the German artist with Colombian roots is a perceptive and gentle observer – unveiling depth and meaning in human interaction.
It’s not just individual moments in time, that spark her interest but the people, each on their own journey, and in reflection: to allow the viewer's story to shape the gaps, to open up a realm of interpretation in volatile proximity.

Sina studied Communications & Film (M.A.), Cultural Philosophy and Psychology at Leipzig University. Artistically, she pushed her self taught practice by successfully graduating an intensive 1-year program at Ostkreuz School of Photography (Berlin) as well as from several courses at ICP (NYC). Most notably, she completed a workshop by and received mentoring from Antoine D’Agata (Magnum) as well as Michael Grieve (Agence VU’, Artfotomode) and Dylan Hausthor (VOID, Guggenheim Fellows), and was named a FRESH EYES Talent by GUP Magazine. Sina has lived in Spain, and New York City, and is currently based in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally.

“Her] images evoke passion, eroticism, play, chaos, calm, anxiety about the future, being in the present… and much more [with an atmosphere that is] sultry, enigmatic, exciting.

With a vivid imagination and social concerns [she] searches for what lies under the surface“*. Her photography shows a „restless spirit“*, visualizing „abstract notions related to identity and human relationships.

With a “strong feeling of people, and how to capture energy [she is] creating work that goes beyond the ordinary, […] trying to suspend the moment into something else.”* Her images “address very different subject matter yet they share a similar delicate quality […]. It’s hard to describe but [her] images feel like they are so much about the atmosphere and feeling of the moment unfolding; as if [she is] not only communicating what [she] saw, but also how those moments made [her] feel.”
— *LensCulture
“Sina Muehlbauer recherche le grain, celui qui érafle la peau et laisse des rougeurs, celui qui jaillit du monde des rêves pour s’inscrire sur nos corps.

(Sina Muehlbauer seeks the grain—the one that scratches the skin, leaving a blush, the one that bursts from the world of dreams to mark our bodies.)
”
— Lou Tsatsas, Fisheye Magazine

*Main Focus*

  • Subjective & conceptual Documentary, Narrative & Portrait Photography 

  • Experimental editing techniques, digital & analogue

*Memberships/Programs*

(2022-2025)

  • Upcoming/ Selected: Werkstatt Berlin Foto - International Documentary & Art Photography, mentored by Michael Grieve (Agence VU’, ARTFOTOMODE), Patricia Morosan (Temps Zero), Calin Kruse (dienacht Publishing), Damien Daufresne (Leica Gallery Paris, Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin)

  • ICP - International Center of Photography, NYC (US), course work & class of Dylan Hausthor - „Documentary Myth: Telling True Stories of Fake Things“

  • Mentoring & workshop Antoine D’Agata (Magnum), ArtFotoMode, Berlin (DE)

  • 2023 FRESH EYES Talent 2023 GUP Magazine (NL)

  • ZONE magazine mentoring program (IT)

  • 1-year program at Ostkreuz School of Photography, class of Michael Grieve (Agence VU’), Berlin (DE)

  • Core member of FotografieBerlin Collective (non-profit) (DE)

*Exposure*

  • 2025 Editors Pick „Unmasking“ - „New Visions“, Lensculture, Amsterdam (NL)/ INT

  • 2025 Editors Pick „Letting Go“ - „New Visions“, Lensculture, Amsterdam (NL)/ INT

  • 2024 Publication, interview & article written by editor-in-chief Lou Tsatsas “Sina Muehlbauer: loin du masque, la libération” (Sina Muehlbauer: Far from the mask, liberation”), Fisheye Magazine, Paris (FR)

  • 2024 Publication & artist text “Dans l’œil de Sina Muehlbauer : les visages flous de nos souvenirs" (“In the Eye of Sina Muehlbauer: The Blurry Faces of Our Memories”), editor-in-chief Lou Tsatsas, Fisheye Magazine, Paris (FR)

  • 2024 Exhibition “Drift”, Retramp Gallery, Berlin (DE)

  • 2024 Exhibition “You're Innocent in Your Dreams”, ZERO space Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2024 Presentation Portfolio, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Salle des Fêtes, Arles (FR)

  • 2024 Publication “Witness”, Trigger - FOMU magazine of the Museum of Photography Antwerp (BG)

  • 2024 Exhibition “Urban Silence - Resonance”, 48h Neukölln art festival, FotografieBerlin e.V. (DE)

  • 2024 Video installation, Show&Tell “Excess“, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin (DE)

  • 2024 Publication “Letting Go“, See:zeen, NYC (US) / Berlin (DE)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Touching Transcendence“, UltraSuperNewGallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Publication in DER GREIF magazine, “(make) belief“ (Guest Room), curated by Daniel Boetker-Smith & Tanvi Mishra

  • 2023 Exhibition “FRESH EYES“, Haute Photographie, Amsterdam (NL)

  • 2023 Publication „Letting Go“ zrfdbck Magazine, No 005 2023, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Signs of Impermanence“, Jinny Street Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

  • 2023 Exhibition “Playground“, 48h Neukölln art festival, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Exhibition “Aporia“, Bethanien, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Publication in DER GREIF magazine, “CHARACTERS OF RESONANCE“ (Guest Room), curated by Diandra Donecker 

  • 2022 Exhibition “I’m going to eat my head off“ // Saṃsāra“, 48H Neukölln art festival, Redah Gallery, Berlin (DE)

  • 2022 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Singles & Portfolio, Trieste (IT)

  • 2021 Exhibition “Come fly with me“, 48H Neukölln Berlin art festival, Kunstmatrix, Berlin (DE)

  • 2021 Exhibition “Final Bloom Capsule“, FK-Kollektiv (Redah Gallery), Berlin (DE)

  • 2021 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Singles & Portfolio, Trieste (IT)

  • 2020 Exhibition “Neukölln“, 48H Neukölln Berlin art festival, Kunstmatrix, Berlin (DE)

  • 2020 Exhibition “Final Bloom Capsule“, FK-Kollektiv (Redah Gallery), Berlin (DE)

  • 2020 Selected Photographer International Urban Photo Awards - Portfolio, Trieste (IT)