Caroline Douville – Inscape, 2026
Installation view at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, DE

Caroline Douville
Preparing the poison, 2025
Acrylic, oil and image transfer on canvas, aluminium frame
20 x 27 cm
Caroline Douville
Haiti December 24th 1945, 2023
Acrylic, oil and image transfer on canvas, aluminium sheet
27 x 33 cm
Caroline Douville
Tonton Macoutes au Carnaval, 2026
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
200 x 50 x 4.5 cm
Caroline Douville
According to the guardian Voodoo won’t save Haiti, 2026
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
200 x 45 x 4.5 cm
Caroline Douville
Zombies au Carnaval, 2026
Acrylic, image transfer on canvas and copper
26 x 31 x 2,5 cm
Caroline Douville
Aliens in 1929, 2026
Acrylic, image transfer on canvas and copper
26 x 31 x 2,5 cm
Caroline Douville
Tonton Macoutes du Carnaval, 2025
Acrylic, image transfer on canvas and copper
26 x 31 x 2,5 cm
Caroline Douville
Ghostly archives II, 2025
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
5 paintings, 178 x 122 cm
178 x 30 cm, each

 

Caroline Douville
Ghostly archives, 2024
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
5 paintings, 178 x 122 cm
178 x 30 cm, each

 

Caroline Douville
Ghostly archives, 2024
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
5 paintings, 178 x 122 cm
178 x 30 cm, each
Detail
Caroline Douville
Ghostly archives, 2024
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
5 paintings, 178 x 122 cm
178 x 30 cm, each
Detail
Caroline Douville
Reunion, 2023
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas, metal sheet
76 x 89 cm
Caroline Douville
Il Faut le Voir Pour le Croire, 2023
Acrylic and image transfer on canvas
96.5 x 137 cm
Caroline Douville (b. 1993, Montreal, Canada) is a multidisciplinary artist working in Montréal and Berlin. Her practice explores the ways images carry memory, history, and cultural knowledge across time. From a second-generation Haitian diaspora background, Douville engages with Afro-descendant histories and examines how colonial archives, popular imagery, and contemporary media shape cultural memory.
At the centre of her practice is an interest in the relationship between the visible and the unseen. Douville works extensively with images connected to Haiti, ritual, and the figure of the zombie. Rather than treating the photographic archive as a fixed record of the past, she reworks and reanimates these images through painting, image transfer, and material intervention. Her works occupy a space between document and fiction, memory and imagination, presence and absence, allowing archival images to become sites in which suppressed, fragmented, or unresolved histories can resurface.
Her practice considers the archive as a space shaped by both visibility and omission. By layering photographic fragments with painting and material processes, Douville questions how histories are constructed, transmitted, and remembered, while also exploring the psychic and imaginative dimensions that images can hold beyond their documentary function. Her work considers how colonial ways of seeing continue to shape contemporary images and how these images can be reactivated, questioned, and transformed through artistic practice.
Recent exhibitions include Inscape at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin, DE, 2026), Feria de Arte Material at Expo Reforma (Mexico City, MX, 2025), Visions of Belonging at SomoS (Berlin, DE, 2024), Hypnos at Espace Maurice (Montreal, CA, 2024), Chapitre III at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Montreal, CA, 2024), A Preferable Option at Galerie Nicolas Robert (Toronto, CA, 2023), Along the Way at TAP Art Space (Montreal, CA, 2023), and Monstra at Good Mother Gallery (Los Angeles, USA, 2023).
Upcoming exhibitions include Savvy Contemporary (Berlin, DE), Pictura, Painting Biennial Montréal (Montréal, CA), Galerie im Turm (Berlin, DE) and KW Institute of Contemporary Art (Berlin, DE). In 2027, she will present a solo exhibition at Paulina Caspari, Munich, DE.