What is really real?
Only 0.0001% of the light reaching our eyes is consciously perceived. Yet we are convinced the world is exactly as we see it.
What would we see if our filters were set just a little differently? The result is more or less abstract images.
Our brain dislikes ambiguity – it immediately starts telling us stories about what we see. Which stories? And how do they differ from person to person? What drives them – emotions, memories, cultural backgrounds?
ABOUT ME
Angelika Denk
Evolutionary biologist and photographer, exploring how we perceive reality – and what we might see if we looked a little differently.
Selected exhibitions & awards
2025 Art 100 International Winner, The Visual Artist Association, London
2025 Solo show “Explore Reality. Together.”, international art experiment, VAA Open Spaces
2025 Group exhibition "Women in Photography", The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, UK
2025 Group exhibition “Art on the Pantaleonsberg”, Kranzberg, Germany
2024 Shortlisted, Visual Art Open, UK & International Emerging Artist Awards, London
2019 Solo show "Explore Reality – Esplora la Realtà", Florence, Italy
2014–2016 Group exhibition "Artists of the Gallery", Galerie Huber, Munich
Education
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Dr. rer. nat., Biology — Universities of Regensburg and Konstanz, LMU Munich, Max Planck Institutes Plön and Seewiesen
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M.A., Art Analogue Coaching — art and artistic processes in change processes, MSH Hamburg.
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Photography with Will Steacy and others; fine art and painting with Tatjana Utz and Michael Müller-Ahlheim
About me
About me
Angelika Denk
About me
Angelika Denk
Evolutionary biologist and photographer, exploring how we perceive reality – and what we might see if we looked a little differently.