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Verena Paravel

Verena Paravel

Born in 1971, lives and works in Paris.

Anthropologist, filmmaker and artist, Verena Paravel’s work combines ethnographical research with political and ecological questions. Since 2006, Verena Paravel has collaborated with Lucien Castaing-Taylor at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Their films together include Leviathan (2012), Ah humanity (2015, with Ernst Karel), Caniba (2017), Somniloquies (2018) and De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2023), which have screened at numerous festivals, including Berlin, Cannes, Toronto and Venice. Her artistic creations have shown at Documenta 14, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, and the Venice, Shanghai and Whitney biennials. She is a guest fellow at Harvard University and a member of faculty at the Political Arts School masterclass at Sciences-Po, Paris.