Katja Aufleger lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in 2013. Her video works, sculptures and installations, which critically observe (social) contexts and systems with aesthetic precision, are infused with subtle humor. The artistic works go beyond what is depicted and unfold as a premonition in the viewer's imagination. This is often stimulated by the title of the work, such as BANG! for glass bottles whose separate chambers contain substances that would cause an explosion if mixed. Katja Aufleger has been awarded the Berenberg Prize for Young Artists, the VO Cultural Foundation Prize and a working grant from the Bonn Art Fund Foundation. The cultural authorities of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg awarded Aufleger the Zurich Scholarship. Her works have been shown at the Beijing International Art Biennale in China, the Museum Tinguely, the Kunstverein Hamburg, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, the Kestnergesellschaft and the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, among others.