PAULA KÖNIG

 

is a painter, researcher, and educator currently based in Lisbon. She recently built a community bread oven and was exploring traditional systems of collective land and water use in northern Portugal. After traveling to the High Arctic on a traditional sailing boat, her fascination with radical silence, ancient ice, and the ambiguous imaginaries of the North become central to her work now. Through a non-extractive approach based on encounters and experiences, (audio-)visual material and research, she blends local (hi-)stories, critical perspectives on Western extractivism, and poetic gestures to highlight the beauty of what is meant to endure.

paulakoenig(at)posteo.de
@paula_koenig