NAVIGATION

Curriculum Vitae
BIOGRAPHY | |
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 | |
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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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 |