Eva Leitolf

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Eva Leitolf (* 1966 in Würzburg ) is a German artist. She lives and works in Bozen and Chiemgau .

Life

Eva Leitolf is an artist, full professor and head of the Image studio at the Free University of Bolzano. The critical examination of the practices of image production and contextualization is a central point in all of Leitolf's works, which deal with controversial social phenomena such as colonialism, racism and migration. Leitolf's work often combines photography with text elements - from police reports and researched information from a variety of sources to personal notes. Leitolf adopts a conceptual approach, visualizing social and political conflicts and questioning the media with which she works.

After studying photography at the University of Essen , she studied art with Allan Sekula and Ellen Birrell at the California Institute of the Arts . In 1996 Leitolf was honored with the ICP Annual Infinity Award , "Young Photographer" from the International Center of Photography in New York City . After numerous commissions for SZ-Magazin and ZEIT-Magazin , she has been intensively pursuing her own projects since 1997. In 1999 she was awarded an annual “Document Nederland” scholarship by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the NRC Handelsblad in Rotterdam . She also received a project grant from the City of Munich in 2002 and, in 2005, the State Capital of Munich's Prize for Photography . In 2012 she received a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2016 she received the Art Prize of the City of Munich.

Your work can be found u. a. in the collections of the Pinakothek der Moderne , the Fotomuseum in the Münchner Stadtmuseum , the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, the Fotozentrum Winterthur, McKinsey & Company and Burda in Munich, as well as in the collections of DekaBank and that of Celanese in Frankfurt am Main .

From 2012 to 2014 Eva Leitolf was a lecturer at the University of Design and Art in Lucerne , in 2017 a lecturer at the Free University of Bolzano . From the summer semester 2018 to the winter semester 2018/19 she worked as a professor of photography at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle , but in February 2019 she switched to the Free University of Bolzano.

Work

Her project "Rostock Ritz", a photographic processing of the consequences of the German colonial era in Namibia today , is available as a book (Rostock Ritz, Schaden.com 2005). At the same time as her exhibition "German Pictures - A Search for Traces" in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the book of the same name was published in 2008 (Snoeck 2008). In this work Leitolf deals with the social discourse on xenophobic motivated acts of violence. Her picture-text work "Postcards from Europe" on migration (since 2006) has been shown at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the architecture museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and the Kunst Haus Wien. In 2013 a publication of the same name was published by Kehrer Verlag.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2016:
    • "Postcards from Europe", Art House Vienna / Austria
    • "Postcards from Europe 12/16", Minshar College, Tel Aviv / Israel
    • "Postcards from Europe 11/16", Study Gallery 1.367, Goethe University, Frankfurt / Germany
  • 2015:
    • "Postcards from Europe 10/15", Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna / Austria
    • "Postcards from Europe 03/15", Luigi Einaudi Campus, University of Turin / Italy
    • "Postcards from Europe 03/15", Espace Quai1, Vevey / Switzerland
  • 2013: "Postcards from Europe", Sprengel Museum Hannover / Germany (book)
  • 2008: "German Pictures - A Search for Traces", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Germany (book)
  • 2007: "German Pictures - A Search for Traces 1992-94 / 2006-07" and "Rostock Ritz", Les Chiroux, Liège / Belgium
  • 2006: "The audience", presentation on 5 mega-lights interchangeable advertising spaces, Marienplatz underground station , Munich / Germany (as part of QUIVID, the art-in-building program of the Munich building department)
  • 2005:
    • "Rostock Ritz" (together with Chr. V. Steffelin "Stage Berlin"), Gallery Sabine Salome Schwefel, Stuttgart / Germany
    • "Quiet and silent / pieces of nature", Galerie Wäcker & Jordanow, Munich / Germany
    • "Rostock Ritz", State Museum for Ethnology Munich , Munich / Germany (book)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2020 :
    • "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene", DePaul Art Museum, University of Chicago / USA
  • 2019:
    • "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene", A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor / USA
    • "Here We Are Today. The Image of the World in Photo & Video Art", Bucerius Kunstforum, Hamburg / Germany
    • "Now is the Time. 25 Years of the Wolfsburg Art Museum Collection", Wolfsburg Art Museum / Germany
  • 2018:
    • "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene", The Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville / USA
    • "Whose land have I lit on now? Contemplations on the notions of hostipitality", Savvy Contemporary, Berlin / Germany
    • "Etrangement familier", Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne / Switzerland
    • "Space of Flows: Framing an Unseen Reality", Museum of Ethnography, Krakow / Poland
  • 2017:
    • "Global Precarious: Flight, Trauma and Memory in Contemporary Photography", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Germany
    • "Performing the Border" , Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna / Austria
    • "Work in Motion" (Lavoro in Movimento: Lo sguardo della videocamera sul comportamento sociale ed economico), Fondazione MAST, Bologna / Italy
    • "Unfamiliar Familiarities" , Photo Center Winterthur / Switzerland
  • 2016:
    • "Wolfsburg Unlimited", Wolfsburg Art Museum / Germany
    • "the end of the world as we know it is the beginning of a world that we do not know", cotton spinning mill, Leipzig / Germany
    • "Zoom. Picturing Architecture and the City", Architekturzentrum Wien / Austria
    • "We refugees - on the right to have rights", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe / Germany
  • 2015:
    • "When there is Hope", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg / Germany
    • "Zoom. Architecture and the City in Pictures", Architekturmuseum / Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Germany
    • "Painting and Photography from William Turner to Olafur Eliasson", Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg / Germany
  • 2014: "Photographing the future", Museum for Art and Commerce, Hamburg / Germany
  • 2013:
    • Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau
    • "Provisionalium", exhibition site, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich / Germany
    • "Arriving", Alison and Peter W. Klein collection, Eberdingen-Nussdorf / Germany
    • "Photographing the future", NCCA, Moscow
    • "Alone Together - Photography and the Other", The National Gallery of Kosovo, Pristina, Kosovo
  • 2012:
    • "Making History", Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Germany
    • "Points of View", Kunstverein Hildesheim / Germany
  • 2011:
    • "Wherever I lay down my camera is Home", Macro Testaccio, Rome / Italy
    • "ANGRY. Young and Radical", Photo Museum Rotterdam / Netherlands
    • "Project Europa: Imagining the (Im) possible", Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York / USA
    • "Foundation Prize for Photo Art 2011", Alison and Peter Klein Foundation, Stuttgart / Germany
  • 2010:
    • "Project Europe: Imagining the (Im) possible", The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville / USA
    • "Sightseeing", Massey University, Wellington / New Zealand
    • "En Filigrane. Eva Leitolf and the work of her students", Pasqu´Art Photoforum, Biel / Switzerland
  • 2009:
    • "Carte Blanche VI: East for the record", Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig / Germany
  • 2007:
    • "Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post Wall Germany", Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis / USA
    • "Mistigris - Contemporary German Photography", Gallery at University of Texas, Arlington / USA
    • "German pictures - a search for traces in Rostock, Thale, Solingen and Bielefeld 1992-94 and Rostock Ritz", Les Chiroux, Liège / Belgium
  • 2005:

proof

  1. ↑ Villa Massimo scholarship holders 2012
  2. ↑ Personal entry Eva Leitolf
  3. ^ Event announcement on the Martin-Gropius-Bau website , accessed on February 16, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Leitolf, Eva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg