Okka-Esther Hungerbühler’s works could not be more timeless: social interactions, human emotions and the roles are reflected in her paintings, sculptures and installations. Her fairytale-like sculptures are created from wrapping paper, adhesive tape, feathers, toys and other found materials. Seemingly fallen out of time, they are rearranged into thoughtful compositions.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards 2025 and received an ISCP Scholarship in New York in 2023. In 2017, she received the Villa Concordia working scholarship in Bamberg and was nominated for the Berlin Masters Prize. In 2014 Okka-Esther Hungerbühler was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.
Okka-Esther Hungerbühler was born in Bonn in 1988 and lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and at the Cooper Union in New York and graduated in 2016 as a master student in the class of Thomas Zipp.
