Barbara Metselaar Berthold

Barbara Metselaar Berthold (* 1951 in Pleißa , Saxony ) is a German photographer and filmmaker .

Life

Barbara Berthold studied social psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1969 to 1971 . In 1971 she began to study photography at the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art , which she graduated with a diploma in 1976. Then she went to Berlin, where she worked as a freelance photographer. In 1984 she married the Dutchman Kees Metselaar and left the GDR . From 1985 to 1989 she was a lecturer and artistic assistant a. a. worked at the University of the Arts in Berlin. After that she dealt with the production of documentaries and video essays and from 1991 worked for various television productions. In 1996, the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig honored your film We would have loved to have been heroes with the Silver Dove . In 1998/99 Barbara Merselaar Berthold held a teaching position for photography at the Babelsberg University of Film and Television . Her documentary film projects were supported by funds from the film funding of the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the cultural funding of the Free State of Saxony. In 2010 she received the award for artistic photography from the Berlin Senate's program for women artists .

She lives in Berlin and the Uckermark .

Exhibitions

• Photo workshop Kreuzberg, Berlin 1985
• Stadtstand II , installation with Hans-Hendrik Grimmling , Lutz Friedel and Martin Steyer in Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin, 1988
• Photographing GDR women , Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin and Museum Ludwig , Oberhausen 1990, with catalog: Gabriele Muschter, (Ed.): GDR women photographing. Lexicon and anthology , ex pose Verlag, Berlin 1990
• City lights , old Wiehrebahnhof Freiburg 1991
• Changeant , intermedial project with M.-A. Bahra, Anna Werkmeister and Heike Willingham, Waschhaus (Potsdam) 1994
• In the big cities , gallery argus photo art , Berlin 1996
• Cut / Kire / Schnitt , Galerie Schwarzes Kloster Freiburg, 1998
• Frozen Margaritas , photographic installation in the Galerie am Prater , Berlin 1999
• German Dances , Museum for Contemporary Art Cottbus , and in the Haus am Kleistpark , Berlin-Schöneberg 1999
• Positions-Attidudes-Actions , Photo Biennale Rotterdam (participation), 2000
• Within and beyond the wall (Nine German photographers) Harbourfront Gallery Toronto, 2004
• Fifteen years after the fall of the wall (participation), Central Library Gallery San Antonio , 2004
• Utopia and Reality , Forum for Photography Cologne and Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin (participation), 2004
• Behind Walls , Noorderlicht Photofestival (participation), Fries Museum , Leeuwarden, 2008
• Art of two Germanys , Los Angeles County Museum of Art (participation), 2009
• Search, soul, search - between two worlds , gallery argus Fotokunst, Berlin 2010
• Fillet pieces - picture puzzle Berlin Mitte , Ephraim-Palais , Berlin 2010
• 4th Photo Festival , Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg 2011

Works in public collections

Her work can be found in the following collections, among others:

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
• Berlinische Galerie , Berlin
• Märkisches Museum , Berlin
• Photographic collection of the art museum of Saxony-Anhalt on the Moritzburg in Halle
• Museum for Contemporary Art Cottbus

Movies

• Staatsqueben , material collection, (director, camera, editor), 1989
• Otherwise it bangs - the flap and the house , artistic videos, 1989/90
• Tell me the tales (camera), German TV radio 1991
• Ropeways … relatively extreme (director's camera, editing), ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel , 1993/94
• We would have loved to have been heroes (script, direction, camera, editing) ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, 1995/96
• Frozen Margaritas (script, direction, camera, editing, production), 1998/99
• Insel - Talks in front of a blooming landscape (script, direction, camera, editing), 2005
• Audiences - strategies of self-assertion (script, direction, camera, editing), with Tina Bara , 2006/07

Publications

• Scratching the concrete - '68 in the GDR? Verlag Vopelius, Jena 2008, ISBN 978-3-939718-18-5 .
• Albatross. From taking off . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86732-094-8

literature

• Irmgard Berner: Pictures that she no longer wanted to see . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 16, 2010; Review of the exhibition in the Ephraim-Palais

Web links

• Literature by and about Barbara Metselaar Berthold in the catalog of the German National Library
• Barbara Metselaar Berthold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography Barbara Metselaar Berthold Gallery argus fotokunst
• Noorderlicht Photofestival 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Dieckmann: Paid . In: Die Zeit , No. 37/1996
2. ↑ fotofestival.info