NAVIGATION
Curriculum Vitae
| BIOGRAPHY | |
| 2019 | The Fotobbook Bärenmädchen / Bear Girls is published | Publisher: BUMMBUMM BOOKS, Cologne |
| 2015 | Teaching assignment, Academy for Communication Design, Cologne, Germany |
| 2011 | The Last Year of Childhood (artists' book) | Publisher: POWERSHOVEL.BOOKS, Tokio/NewYork |
| 2009 | The Door Behind the Wall | Project with handicapped and non-handicapped inhabitants of the Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti foundation, Cologne, Germany |
| 2008 - 2009 | Teaching assignment, College of Higher Education Bielefeld, Germany |
| 2008 | Zimmerpflanzen (artists' book), publisher: Snoeck Verlag, Cologne, Germany |
| 2007 | Teaching assignment for Visual Communications | Merz Akademie, Design Academy Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2006 | Mermaids, video |
| Galerie 11, in the Gruner + Jahr publishing house, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2005 | Teaching assigment, College of Higher education Voralberg, Austria |
| Märchen, Fairy Tales (artists' book) | Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2004 | Observer and Indoor Plants (booklet) | latent, aristotelean mimesis within the thriller genre | label: www.bold-dvd.de |
| 2002 | Art goes School | State Chancellery, Saarland, Germany |
| 2001 | kunstKöln special edition |
| 1996 | Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies (artists' book) | Publisher: Scalo Verlag, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1993 | Degree |
| 1987 - 1993 | Academic studies: Photographic Design | University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany |
| 1985 - 1987 | Academic studies: Communication Design | University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 1979 - 1982 | Apprenticeship as a carpenter |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection) | |
| 2018 | Being a Child, Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Mühlheim an der Ruhr |
| Fassade und Tarnung, Scope Galerie, Hannover | |
| 2016 | Singapore International Photography Festival |
| 2014 | Second Glance / Small Silent City, Galerie im Kreuzgang, Kloster Obermarchtal, Germany |
| Second Glance / Small Silent City, FHV Galerie Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria | |
| 2013 | Zimmerpflanzen / Small Silent City, Kulturhaus Osterfeld e.V., Pforzheim |
| Conifer Club / Second Glance, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin | |
| 2012 | Mermaids, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr, Germany |
| 2009 | The room behind the wall | Dr. Dormagen Guffanti foundation, Cologne, Germany |
| 2008 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 2007 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 2005 | Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Germany |
| Gallery 11, in the Gruner + Jahr publishing house, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2004 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| Gallery Goethe-Institut Sofia, Bulgaria | |
| 2000 | Gallery Bodo Niemann, Berlin, Germany |
| 1999 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| 1996 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| Leckri Fotografie Group, Gent, Belgium | |
| 1995 | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne, Germany |
| PRIZES | AWARDS | |
| 2019 | The Emerging Photographer Fund (Shortlist) Felix Schoeller Photo Award (Shortlist Portrait) Art Photography Award / Lens Culture (Finalist) Hellerau Photography Award (Shortlist) |
| 2014 | Espy Photography Award 2014 (shortlist) |
| 2012 | Kolga Award (shortlist) |
| 2011 | Residence scholarship, Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop |
| 2009 | Dr. Dormagen – Guffanti Foundation Award |
| Welde Art Award (selected photographers) | |
| 2008 | German Photobook Award 2009 (shortlist) | Zimmerpflanzen | Snoeck Verlag |
| 2007 | Foundation Kunstfonds sponsorship | Book project "Zimmerpflanzen" |
| 2004 | Toyota Photo Art Prize |
| 2002 | Commendation, European award for women photographers, Florence, Italy |
| 2001 | Scholarship of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia without change of residence |
| 2000 | Commendation, DGPH Otto Steinert Award |
| 1997 | Promotional Booth/Förderkoje, Art Cologne |
| 1990 | DAAD scholarship |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) |
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| 2019 | Anarchy, Helsinki, Photo Festival Phantasie, Israel, Photo Festival Fotofestival Athen, Photobookshow Nida International Photography Symposium, Photobookshow, Litauen |
| 2016 | Mit anderen Augen – Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie | Kunstmuseum Bonn |
| Mit anderen Augen – Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie | Kunsthalle Nürnberg und Kunsthaus Nürnberg | |
| 2014 | Espy Photography Award 2014, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK |
| elf uhr elf | Photographs about the Cologne Carnival, Laif Gallery, Cologne | |
| 2012 | Paris Photo, Au Grand Palais, Paris |
| views and windows | Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich | |
| Kolga Award 2012 »The best Photos of the year« Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| Mistigris - Contemporary German Photography, Tbilisi, Georgia | |
| 2010 | Shifting Realities... Photography and its Realities | HALLE ZEHN / Cap Cologne e.V., Cologne |
| 2009 | Welde Art Award | Savings Bank Schwetzingen |
| Revision | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne | |
| 2008 | Mistigris- Contemporary German Photography | Gallery Lichtblick, Cologne |
| 2007 | Art Cologne |
| University of Texas, Dallas | |
| Small Silent City | Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne | |
| Quiet Afternoon | Gallery Claudia Delank, Cologne (with Anna Vogel) | |
| 2006 | Der Palast der Drachenkönigin | Gallery Claudia Delank, Cologne |
| Galerie Burg, LE-Musberg | |
| Märchen / Fairy Tales, DFA in Leinfelden | |
| 2004 | Hotel Eden, Ludwigturm, Duisburg |
| 44 in 10, Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Cologne | |
| KunstKöln, special show | |
| 2003 | kunstKöln |
| Museumsmühle Küppersbusch, Duisburg | |
| Art Cologne | |
| Paris Photo | |
| 2002 | European award for women photographers, Florence, Italy |
| Heimat/Homeland | Kunsthaus Dresden | |
| Municipal Museum Saarbrücken | |
| kunstKöln | |
| Reykjavik Museum of Photography | |
| Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden | |
| 2001 | kunstKöln |
| Art Cologne | |
| 2000 | ARCO Madrid |
| Art Cologne | |
| 1998 | ARCO Madrid |
| Kunsthalle Koblenz | |
| Kunsthalle Hamburg | |
| sunnyside | Gallery Crista Burger, Munich | |
| Art Cologne, Promotional Booth/Förderkoje | |
| 1997 | Kunsthalle Nürnberg |
| Museum for Applied Art, Gera | |
| Some Kind of Heaven | South London Gallery, London | |
| Someone Else with My Fingerprints | David Zwirner Gallery, New York | |
| John Hansard Gallery, Southampten | |
| The Garden of Eden | Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen | |
| Respekt, Glossy Munich | |
| 1996 | Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin |
| LEKRI (Galerijgroep Fotografie), Gent | |
| Gallery Christa Schübbe, Düsseldorf | |
| The Social View : Der soziale Blick | Art Frankfurt | |
| Artforum Berlin | |
| Stadt-an-Sichten | Otto-Nagel-Gallery, Berlin | |
| 1995 | Museum for Applied Art, Gera |
| Days of Photography Herten | |
| Art Multiple, Düsseldorf | |
| 1994 | City & Region Trustee Savings Bank Pforzheim, Pforzheim |
| Gallery Acud, Berlin | |
| Stadtkunst, Köln | |
| 1993 | Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finnland |
| 1992 | Museum of Art and Cultural History, Dortmund |
| 1991 | Torhaus Rombergpark, Dortmund |
| Kunsthaus Essen | |
| 1990 | Fotoforum Schwarzbunt, Bielefeld |
| 1988 | The other side of photography | Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam |