Koenning works in series and is globally peripatetic yet adopts "an embedded vantage point [in] an ongoing concern for documenting scarred, wounded, and transitioning landscapes.
":[18] Lake Mountain (2010–2018) distills into a triptych imagery from return visits over a decade to evidence the effects of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires;[19][20] The Crossing (2009–2017) is a long-form work in stills and video concerned with human impact on Australian ecology;[21] Pott (2012–2018) details indications of post-industrial transition through places and people of Koenning's birthplace the Ruhr; Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura (2010–2012) documents road trips in Australia; Transit (2007–2014) features portraits of seated travelers lost in thought or sleep; Thirteen: Twenty Lacuna (2009–2011) uses seemingly cinematic, ambient lighting to momentarily spotlight Melbourne city pedestrians; Dear Chris (2012–2013) is a personal encounter with the apprehension and aftermath of suicide; the digital video Collisions (2015–2017) is compiled from brief fragments from mobile photo footage; Indefinitely shot between Australia and her native Germany over eight years,[22] presents the condition of a geographically separated family;[19] two series, Midnight in Prahran begun in 2012, and Four Lakes, commenced in Kolkata in 2017, are ongoing location-specific place narratives on non-human human interconnectivity and intimate entanglement; Rausch (2016–2018) visually interprets the experience of chronic tinnitus; and Swell is concerned with Australian government interference in, and resistance to, climate activism targeting the Adani company's Carmichael Coal Mine.
In their studio in Paris, far removed from Bangladesh and Australia, they developed a book concept that replicated the illumination of the mobile phone screen and its constant flow of imagery;On black paper the pages [are] printed in silver ink with traces of a harsh and blinding light originally generated by the smartphone.
Shot between Australia, New Zealand and her native Germany over eight years, they waver between the lucid and dreamlike, spanning continents and oceans, cities and forests, crystalline visions and elusive flashes of happenstance.
[22]Koenning started her teaching career in Journalism, Journalistic Investigation and Reporting at the University of Queensland in 2008 and has since presented lectures, artist talks, workshops and conference papers in Australia, Bangladesh (2017), Germany (2015, 2018, 2019), Cambodia (2017), New Zealand (2018), and elsewhere.