Carolin Schnurrer is a Berlin-based artist working across sound, installation, performance, moving image, workshops, and DJ sets under the alias Gakko. Her multidisciplinary practice creates transformative sensory experiences informed by speculative fiction, deep listening, somatic psychology, and ritual, exploring rhythm and embodiment as forms of care and resistance.
Drawing from her personal experience with chronic illness, Schnurrer's practice of recent years has been informed by how vulnerabilities intersect with power structures, gender-based discrimination, misdiagnosis, lack of research, and social exclusion; how vulnerability shapes the way we interact with each other and the world around us.
After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art London in 2019, her projects have been presented at Tate Lates, Hyperdub's Night Ø, Serpentine Park Nights, ACCA Melbourne, MIRA Festival, soft power and KWIA Berlin. Since 2025, Schnurrer works as an ECA-certified life coach supporting individuals experiencing exhaustion and challenges around self-perception, a practice that directly informs her artistic research.