Katharina Sieverding

Katharina Sieverding ( born November 16, 1944 in Prague ) is a German photographer. It is one of the pioneers of an extension of the expressive possibilities of the photographic medium. Your serial Photo consequences are both an expression of reflections for their own identity and opinion on political and social issues. It is one of the most outstanding artists of our time. With large -format photographs Katharina Sieverding renewed the artistic potential of photography.

Life

Katharina Sieverding was born in Prague. She studied from 1963 to 1964 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and from 1964 to 1967 at Teo Otto in the stage design class at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. In 1967, she joined the class of Joseph Beuys, where she graduated as a master student in 1972. Between 1972 and 1988 she traveled to the United States, China and the Soviet Union.

Since 1975, she has worked with major photography. In their works Sieverding deals with the relationship between microscopic and macroscopic, individual and global processes. From 1992 to 2007 she was a professor at the University of the Arts Berlin. Her students include, among other Jorinda Voigt, Ina Bierstedt and Sebastian Bieniek.

From 1995 to 1998, and in the years 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 she taught at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, 2002 and 2004 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. Since 2008, Sieverding is part of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2010 she teaches at the Graduate School of the University of the Arts Berlin. Katharina Sieverding lives in Dusseldorf since 1964.

Public collections

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • Musée d'Art Moderne Grand -Duc Jean, Luxembourg
  • Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich
  • Ordos Museum of Art, Ordos / China
  • Castello di Rivoli, Turin
  • National Gallery, Berlin
  • Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
  • Museum of Photography, Berlin
  • Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
  • House of History in Bonn
  • Albertinum, Dresden
  • State Gallery of Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  • Art collection Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
  • Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
  • Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf
  • Städel Städel, Frankfurt
  • Museum Folkwang, Essen
  • Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art, Duisburg
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
  • East German Gallery, Regensburg
  • Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  • Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Publications

  • Sieverding. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-485-8.
  • Katharina Sieverding: Stauffenberg block I-XVI/1969. Fotohofedition, Salzburg 1996, ISBN 3-901756-01-9.
  • Katharina Sieverding: in Austria, 1964-2008. Vol 1 Salzburg. Fotohofedition, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902675-00-2.
  • Katharina Sieverding: Testcuts, Projected Data Images. DuMont, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9369-0.
  • Renate Buschmann / Tiziana Caianiello: media art installations. Conservation and presentation. Concretions of the fugitives - Case Study 4 Testcuts I of Katharina Sieverding (p. 127 ff ) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-01463-8.
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