Frauke Eigen

Frauke Eigen (born September 18, 1969 in Aurich ) is a German photographer and artist .

Life

Frauke Eigen was born in Aurich in 1969. After graduating from the Theo Koch School in Grünberg (Hesse) in 1988, she studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design and received the “Higher National Diploma” and the “Advanced Level in Media and Production”, England . From 1993 to 1996 she studied fine arts at the Royal College of Art in London , where she obtained a “Master of Art” degree. Afterwards she was a teacher at Queen's Gate School, London, as well as visiting professor at various colleges. She has been represented by Eric Franck Fine Art since 1997 and works as a freelance artist in Berlin , where she also lives.

Works

In addition to the many trips she has made in Germany, Frauke Eigen traveled to crisis areas such as the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, and most recently to Mexico.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

1994

• Gretchen's Wedding Day - F. Stop Gallery in Bath - England

1997

• Photoworks - Impressions Gallery in York - England

1998

• Photos - Jason & Rhodes Gallery - London
• Bosnia - Center for Cultural Affairs - Munich

1999

• Escape - German Historical Museum - Bonn

2000

• Galeria Potocka - Krakow

2002

• Camera Work Gallery - Berlin
• Goethe Institute - London

2004

• Gallery Volker Diehl - Berlin
• Carla Sozzani - Milan
• Galerie Fricke - Düsseldorf Gallery
• Department store Quartier 206 - Berlin

2009

• Mönchehaus Museum of Modern Art Goslar (February 14th - April 19th)
• Langen Foundation, Neuss (May 30th - November 15th)

Group exhibitions

1998

• Mijlet - Moderna Galerija in Zagreb, Croatia
• Paris Photo - Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Eric Franck Fine Art / London

1999

• Art Fair 1999 - Design Center in London, Eric Franck Fine Art / London
• Germination - Center d'Art Contemporain in the Domaine de Kerguéhennec in France
• Paris Photo - Carrousel du Louvre in Paris Eric Franck Fine Art / London

2000

• Art Basel - Eric Franck Fine Art / London
• Germnation - Bologna
• Müvsztelep in Szeged / Hungary
• John Kobal Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London
• The myth of the turning point - traveling exhibition in the Ruhr area
• Paris Photo - Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, Eric Franck Fine Art / London

2001

• Aipad in New York - Eric Franck Fine Art / London
• Tell it like it is - Galerie Volker Diehl in Berlin
• Show Room - Camera Work in Berlin

2002

• Nomination for the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize at the Kunstmuseum Bonn
• Paris Photo - Carrousel du Louvre - Paris

2003

• Sample - Producer Gallery Hamburg

2004

• Places, Traces, Faces - National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa
• Open Secret - Imperial War Museum, London

Awards and grants (selection)

• 1995: Winner of the BT New Contemporaries Award 1995 London
• 1996: "Photograph of the Year 1996" - Association of Photographers, London
• 1999: Scholarship holder of the Center d'Art Contemporain in the Domaine de Kerguéhennec
• 2002: Nomination for the Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize at the Kunstmuseum Bonn

Publications (selection)

• Photonews, Germany 1994
• Camera Austria, Switzerland 1994
• Revue de la Bibliothèque Nationale, France 1995
• John Kobal Portrait Award, England 1995 (catalog)
• Advice center for urban renewal, Leipziger Platz 1996
• UNHCR Documentation, Bosnia 1998
• Technical Relief Organization Documentation, 1998
• Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen - Where From - Where To , 1998
• The hollowed trunk - Museum Catalog, Heidelberg 1998
• Erwin Wortelkamp - Socketed Fragments . Exhibition Catalog, 1998
• 'IN THE VALLEY' Art in Dialogue with Artists and Nature, ISBN 3-932256-04-2
• John Kobal Portrait Award, England 2000 (Catalog)
• Myth Turning Point - Photo Essay Volume
• Kunstmuseum Bonn, Dorothea von Stetten Art Prize, Exhibition Catalog 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data of Frauke Eigen in the "National Gallery Of Canada"