Alice in the Museum

Andrea Wilmsen Andrea Wilmsen is a visual artist who works with photography. She studied at the University of Duisburg-Essen and lives in Berlin and Catalonia. After graduating, she worked as an editor at a creative agency and traveled extensively throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States for several years. During her travels, her camera became an indispensable tool, initially personal, then professional. For her, it is far more than a tool for documentation—rather, a means of perception, reflection, and artistic exploration. In her most recent photographic work, Wilmsen focuses on museum spaces as complex institutional structures. She visually explores new perspectives on institutions dedicated to art or scientific research. Her particular attention is drawn to the hidden, often inaccessible areas of these institutions—those interstitial spaces where the structures, processes, and self-conceptions of these institutions are subtly revealed. Her work is exhibited internationally at institutions and festivals, including Haus am Kleistpark in Berlin, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the European Month of Photography (EMOP), and Voies Off Arles as part of the Rencontres d'Arles (Fotohaus Paris-Berlin). Her work has been published in art and architecture magazines such as Domus, Der Greif, Museumsjournal, PhotoNews, and Perlentaucher. Wilmsen's works are represented in private and institutional collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (MOCP), the catalogue of Catalan photography initiated by the Institut Ramon Llull, and the Photographic Collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin. "Alice in the Field" (original title) was published as an artist's book by Distanz Verlag in 2024 and was nominated by the Stiftung Buchkunst in Germany as one of the most beautiful German books in 2025.