Doors Around the Globe is an art project documenting random encounters expanded through art.

Where

+10

countries around the globe

What has been done

Murals on doors,  on paper, photographies,  voice recordings, videos, poetry

With whom

Children, established artists, people who have never painted before, poets, teachers, rebels, grandmothers, babies, musicians, and more.

(About Us)

Born in 2020 as a random thing. After randomly painting murals doors in the countries where Karin was arriving, someone told her: “You have been painting Doors Around the Globe.” And there she realized that, metaphorically, she had also been opening all kinds of doors along the way, through stories, encounters, and the people she met, and also opened the doors of their homes to her.

From there, the documenting began. Every encounter became a moment in which she would openly take out her old watercolors, brushes, camera, paper, and anything available, just to feel comfortable and make something.

There, in that liminal space, the true opening happened. And the rest is a story to read here.

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Doors Around the Globe is an ongoing project created by Karin Verbru. Initiated in 2020 through the spontaneous painting doors while traveling, it unfolds through murals, photography, sound and poetry.

The door becomes a threshold and a liminal space: a point of encounter, exchange, and possibility. The project approaches art as a form of opening—and an act of resistance

 

(Karin Verbru)

Karin Verbru (Mexico City, 1997) received her Bachelor’s degree in German Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2022, and in 2024 pursued further studies in Photography and Cinematography at the same institution.

In 2021, she began her career as a visual artist with the project Doors Around The Globe, through which she traveled for four years. Her work has been exhibited in Mexico, Ireland, and Spain.

Since 2023, her practice has focused on the dialogue between human and non-human elements; memory and the body. Through her work, Verbru intertwines photography, painting, and sound. Her practice explores vibration, clay, bioplastics, and organic matter.

Between 2023 and 2025, she collaborated with Radio Nopal, and recently presented the sound piece Resonancia Viva—where vibration and intention interact with water and become photographs—in the exhibition Otr^s Mund^s at Museo Tamayo (2025).