Birgit Rautenberg

Birgit Rautenberg (born November 25, 1969 in Kiel ) is a German photographer .

life and work

Birgit Rautenberg studied photography with Dirk Reinartz from 1996 to 2002 at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel . Your diploma thesis “On Your Own Body. About the attempt to get closer to his ideal image. ”(A documentation about cosmetic surgery ), was awarded the BFF sponsorship award for the best diploma theses in photography in 2002.

Her artistic work is mainly located in the field of landscape photography; her work has been shown in numerous group and several solo exhibitions. Birgit Rautenberg also works as a freelance photographer in Kiel in the field of documentation , landscape and portraits . She has published in various magazines ( Neon , Geo , Börsenblatt , Fotonews , Neue Zürcher Zeitung ).

Birgit Rautenberg is married to the German writer and artist Arne Rautenberg .

Solo exhibitions

• 2007 up to here. Mare Clinic, Kiel.
• 2005 on a small scale. Eckernförde + x. Schleswig-Holstein artists' house in Eckernförde .
• 2003 stand in the course of time. Galerie Enja Wonneberger, Kiel (with concrete poetry by Arne Rautenberg ).
• 2002 The city within the city. City Museum Warleberger Hof , Kiel.
• 2001 The city within the city. Tresor plus gallery, Hamburg.

Participation in exhibitions

• 2007 Kempowski's résumés. Academy of Arts, Berlin.
• 2007 silence. Dirk Reinartz and students. Palace for Current Art , Glückstadt. (Further stations: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, VHS Photo Gallery Stuttgart, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Museum Buxtehude).
• 2005 Walter Kempowski . Echo sounder. Photo documentation for the exhibition in the Warleberger Hof City Museum, Kiel.
• 2004 RFLXN 02 State exhibition for photography in Schleswig-Holstein, city gallery in the Elbeforum Brunsbüttel.
• 2003 Lebensarten - Körber Photo Award 2003 Museum for Art and Commerce, Hamburg.
• 2003 Awarded Gruner + Jahr Pressehaus, Hamburg.
• 2002 Visual Gallery of Photokina Großer Rheinsaal / Exhibition Grounds, Cologne.
• 2002 On my own body. About trying to get closer to his ideal. Diploma presentation in the Stadtgalerie Kiel.
• 2001 Reinhart Wolf Prize Museum for Art and Industry, Hamburg.
• 2000 The world as a whole. German photography after 1989. SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (worldwide traveling exhibition).

Awards and grants

• 2005 scholarship in the Schleswig-Holstein artist house in Eckernförde
• 2005 Scholarship from the cultural association of VG-Bild-Kunst for the project "Model House"
• 2004 1st prize at the state exhibition for photography in Schleswig-Holstein
• 2002 BFF sponsorship award for the diploma thesis “On my own body. About trying to get closer to his ideal. "

publication

• Model house - with a foreword by Matthias Harder, Newton Foundation Berlin; ed. by Andy Lim, Darling Publications Cologne, 2008.