Aubrey Theobald
You Left This / Geh Nicht - Solo Exhibition at Backhaus Projects Neukölln, April 2025, Berlin
(Right to Left: And Again, and Again, and Again / Warm Palm, Cold Cheek / Keiz Fragment / Found with the Doors Wrapped Shut), Steel mesh, pigeon guard rail, wax, cigarette ash, bay leaf, zip ties, found cage, canary feather, wood perch, charcoal tint, unopened bouquet, ripped hose, braided steel cord, mixed
Aubrey Theobald (she/her) is an interdisciplinary installation artist and writer born in Cleveland, OH, based in Berlin, Germany.
Theobald earned her Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Sculpture (2024) and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Cincinnati DAAP, with minors in Art History and Critical Visions (2018).
Rooted in an interdisciplinary installation practice, her work exposes the surfaces of the everyday to process, and thus heal, the factors of emotional life through the perennial mundane. Her sensorial installations hold both the grief-ridden and rigid, with the sentimentalized and ephemeral at once, allowing viewers to affectively feel her over processing of commonplace surroundings, archiving of discarded material, and compulsive need to inject intimacy into the banal.
Theobald’s work has been shown across the United States and internationally. Recent group exhibitions include Notations on Ritual at the Carnegie, Covington, KY, the 2024 Graduate Degree Exhibition at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Support Systems at Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Proximity of Fate at Mansfield Arts Center, Mansfield, OH; with her most recent solo exhibition, You Left This / Geh Nicht at Backhaus Projects, Berlin. Notably, Theobald is a 2024-25 Fulbright International Sculpture Research Fellow in Berlin, Germany, and is a current Artist in Residence at Scope BLN.
Her residencies include Scope BLN (2025-26), Vermont Studio Center (2020), Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency (2018), and Weissenße Kunsthoschule Berlin (2017).