Anja Kempe (artist)

Anja Kempe (* 1973 in Bad Urach ) is a German photographer and artist .

Life

Kempe studied political science, empirical cultural studies and French from 1994 to 1997 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen . This was followed by studying media art at the University of Design at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe (1997–2000) and the Art Academy for Media, Cologne (2000–2003). In the following years she received several grants and sponsorship awards and worked as a freelance artist. From 2007 to 2013 she worked as an artistic assistant in the media art course at the University of Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig . In 2014 Kempe was given a teaching position in the media art course at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig. Since 2017 she has been Professor of Photography / Media at the University of Fine Arts in Essen .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

• 2003: Private , Galerie Lopata, Cologne
• 2006: Added value 112 , Interfood showcase, Aachen
• 2007: America is waiting for us, but , Kunstraum BLAST, Cologne
• 2008: Palais , Maxim, Cologne
• 2009: Säulenwald , Schwäbisch Hall Art Association
• 2010: Bliekbüsse Blickwechsel ', Kultursekretariat Gütersloh, Rheine
• 2012: The dying swan (live) , 10 qm, Cologne
• 2012: Oblique with Denis Luce, Kuhturm, Leipzig
• 2013: Open Studios , ISCP, New York, USA
• 2015: fifty-fifty gallery Ursula Walter, Dresden
• 2016: The Inner Grid , Pepper House, Lochi, India

Group exhibitions

• 1998: Plastic and Multimedia , Tumulka Art Bunker, Munich
• 2002: White Cube , Bergen, Norway
• 2004: Feel -tactile media art , z33, Hasselt, Belgium
• 2004: Trend walls , Kunstraum Düsseldorf
• 2006: CBGB'S moves to Las Vegas , Maxim, Cologne
• 2006: Ivan Baschang / Anja Kempe ; Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation, Stuttgart
• 2006: Reservoir X , Large Water Reservoir , Berlin
• 2007: Feedback -audiovisual perspectives , Kunstverein Pforzheim
• 2009: Inside Out , German Culture Days in Macedonia
• 2009: Mondo Salami , Kunstraum geh8, Dresden
• 2009: Quint & Giddens , Tapetenwerk, Leipzig
• 2010: (Don't) Merchandise me , Schloss Solitude and Art Foundation Ba-Wü, Stuttgart
• 2010: New management , Magistrale 2010, Berlin
• 2012: performance! -Power, play and diversion , Kunstverein Leipzig
• 2012: Meta Empire , Daegu Youth Art Project, Korea, 2012
• 2013: The Lost November Saloon , Heavy Refuge Gallery, New York
• 2014: Origami , Dresden Art Fair, 2014
• 2014: WIN / WIN acquisitions by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony , Halle 14, Leipzig
• 2015: Object ls Mediation And Poetry ... , GRASSI Museum for Applied Arts, Leipzig
• 2016: It's your turn , visual emphasis 10, Zentralwerk, Dresden
• 2016: Bahnen , Geh8, Dresden
• 2016: The Unreasonable , Cabinet, Dresden
• 2016: The Inner Grid , Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bahvan, Bangalore, India

Awards & Scholarships

• 2003: Winner of the digital sparks award of the MARS research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in St. Augustin
• 2004: Goldrausch artist project art IT, Berlin
• 2004: Culture grant from the Westphalian economy
• 2004: Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 2006: Sponsorship award from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the "Media Art" category
• 2008: Stiftung Kunstfonds catalog funding for the Maxim exhibition space
• 2013: ISCP - International Studio and Curatorial Program New York, funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
• 2016: BangaloResidency, Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation / Pepper House and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore

Publications

• l0qm art project in public space Cologne: Frank Bölter, Uschi Huber, Anja Kempe, Stefanie Klingemann, Katerina Kuznetcowa & Alexander Edischerow, Diane Müller, Michael Pohl & Peter Schloss, PUBLIK.ORG, Pepper & Woll. Cologne, 2013
• Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh: Blickwechsel NRW. Kerber Art, Bielefeld, 2010
• Museum Schloss Moyland: Kempe / Kutter / Tonagel -Moving Days. In the eye of sound II - The Eye of Sond II. Van der Grinten collection, Joseph Beys Archive of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bedburg-Hau 2008
• Max im: art and babies. A-Musik, Cologne, 2008
• Culture and Sports Office Bietigheim-Bissingen -Stadtische Galerie: Horne Stories -between documentation and fiction. Modern Art Publishing House Nuremberg, 2007
• ngbk: Precise perspectives, information from the depths of the uncertain space, reader for the discussion series organized by Burbaum, Kasböck, Kriegerowski, Leitner, Veihelmann. ngbk, Berlin, 2006
• Gold rush female artist project IT: Anja Kempe. Women's network Berline.V., Berlin 2004
• RealismusStudio: tainment, game forms of the awareness industry. ngbk, Berlin, 2004
• Ulrike Bergermann, Elke Bippus, Marion Herz, Helene von Oldenburg, Claudia Reiche, Andrea Siek, Jutta Weber: Intervene. Viruses, models, tricks. Thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor, Bremen, 2003
• Art School for Media: Bingo. Catalog Art Cologne, Cologne 2003
• Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf: UNPLUGGED art as a scene of global conflicts. Ars Electronica, Linz, 2002

Web links

• Web presence of the artist
• Goethe-Institut India - bangaloResident
• University of Fine Arts Essen - lecturers