Kani Marouf (1991) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. She completed her bachelor’s degree in visual arts at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany, and earned her master’s through the temporary program Shadow Channel — Film, Design & Politics at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam.
Her work has been featured at international film festivals such as the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Reykjavík International Film Festival, and Kurdish Film Festival Berlin, and exhibited at institutions and platforms including vdrome, Sonic Acts Academy, Magacin Belgrade, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rietveld Pavilion, De School, Jan van Eyck Academy, Galerie Eigenheim, Galerie Rothamel, MACA, and others.
In 2022, she collaborated with the Rojava Film Commune on their contribution to documenta fifteen.
She has taught the moving image courses Quick & Dirty and Passive Observer at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, and worked as a tutor at both the Sandberg Instituut and HfK Bremen. Currently she holds a teaching and research position at Filmuniversity Konrad Wolf Babelsberg.
Her practice examines the image in relation to a desensitised audience. Ongoing research explores image regimes within digital and social media cultures, the psychosocial dynamics of migrant youth, and the increasing alignment of late capitalist urban environments. The narrative elements in the films often shift from seemingly trivial observations to reveal the cinematic apparatus itself—exposing the charged relationship between viewer and Absent Cause. This process generates an increasingly enunciative space, used as a narrative tool to interrogate the image for the truths it contains.

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