Artist Name: Caecilia Göken
Residency Dates: April – June 2025
Born: 2001
Hometown: Coesfeld, Germany
Lives & Works: Concepcion, Chile
URL: caeciliagoeken.com | Instagram @caecilia.goeken
Education:
2022 – 2025 – Cultural studies in Philosophy, University of Hagen, DE
2024 – Certificate in Aesthetic Philosophy “Images and Thought”, The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, CL
2020 – 2021 – Introduction to Fashion Design, ESMOD Paris, FR
Bio/Statement:
Caecilia Göken currently lives and works in Concepción, Chile. As a visual artist, she is interested in the fugitive nature of the everyday, exploring how cultural and political conditions impose a sense of order and permanence. Through the performative use of objects and situations, Caecilia seeks to interrogate the modes of seeing and confront the strangeness of the ‘common’ experience. These elements, when displaced or recontextualized, visualize their meaning as a state in constant flux, resisting and negating systems that attempt to control. From this essential principle, her work rejects confinement within a singular medium and tensions the frameworks we inherit and inhabit.
Currently engaged in philosophical cultural studies at the University of Hagen, she works conceptually to analyze the aesthetics of a given environment. Her work has been published in various digital and printed media, such as the April/May edition of Muensterland Magazine and exhibited in a variety of cities, such as Barcelona, Nuremberg and Bern. In 2024, she participated in the residency program Residencia Corazon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, further expanding her artistic practice.
Support: Caecilia Göken’s residency is made possible with support from Musikschule Gescher.
