Gudrun Kemsa

Gudrun Kemsa (born February 12, 1961 in Datteln ) is a German photographer and video artist .

life and work

From 1980 to 1990 Kemsa studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf with Karl Bobek and David Rabinowitch , and since 1985 she has been a master class student. From 1997 to 1999 she had a teaching position for photography at the Bergische Universität GH Wuppertal , from 2000 to 2001 she was a lecturer for photography / film / AV at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences (until 2001: Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences), Krefeld . Kemsa has been teaching there since 2001 as a professor for "Moving Images and Photography".

In her photo works and videos, Kemsa addresses the perception of time in an urban context. For example, she depicts people moving in public space or assembling film sequences of city trips so that the city seems to be in motion.

Gudrun Kemsa lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2016 House Beda, Bitburg
• 2014 Lausberg Contemporary, Armory Art Center, Greenfield Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
• 2014 Gallery Bernd A. Lausberg, Düsseldorf
• 2013 LVR-Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn
• 2013 Bernd A. Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2012 Ahlen Art Museum
• 2011 Art Association Ingolstadt
• 2011 Art Association Friends of Current Art, Zwickau
• 2011 Stadtische Galerie Waldkraiburg
• 2011 fiftyfifty gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2010 Landesgalerie Linz, Linz / Austria
• 2008 new art forum, Cologne
• 2007 Municipal Gallery, Iserlohn
• 2007 Jena Art Association, Jena;
• 2007 OMC Gallery of Contemporary Art, LA Huntington Beach / CA
• 2006 Kunstverein Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• 2003 art from North Rhine-Westphalia, former imperial abbey, Aachen-Kornelimünster
• 2001 Dortmunder Kunstverein
• 1997 German Academy Rome Villa Massimo , Rome
• 1995 Internationale Photoszene, Cologne; Regional museum Xanten
• 1994 Janine Mautsch Gallery, Cologne
• 1985 Bad Hersfeld City Museum

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2014 EINS + EINS (ONE + ONE), Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich
• 2014 AOIO10S, Basis Projektraum, Frankfurt am Main
• 2014 DEW21 KUNSTPREIS, Museum for Art and Cultural History, Dortmund
• 2014 MYTHOS WALD, new gallery in Haus Beda, Bitburg
• 2012 pictures against the dark. Video art from the imai archive ( Imai - inter media art institute ) at KIT , Kunst im Tunnel , Düsseldorf
• 2012 PICTURE TRACKS - UNRILL PRESENT, 7th Darmstadt Days of Photography, Darmstadt
• 2012 Large art exhibition NRW 2012, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
• 2011 Windows II, German Association of Artists Berlin;
• 2011 State of affairs, Galerie Schuster, Berlin
• 2010 Spectrum of Video Art, City Gallery Lemgo
• 2010 Ars Electronica Linz, Linz / Austria
• 2009 Landscape, contemporary, House of Photography, Burghausen
• 2009 13th Marler Video Art Prize , ZKMax Showroom, Munich
• 2009 imai - video art from A for Auder to Z for Zanni, special show Art Cologne 2009
• 2009 Globalscreen, Ringenberg Castle
• 2008 Marler Video Art Prize , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten , Marl
• 2008 European Media Art Festival , Osnabrück
• 2008 Sample 1, Deutscher Künstlerbund - Projektraum, Berlin
• 2006 Street art - masterpieces from three centuries, kunsthaus kaufbeuren
• 2006 Photo art from 60 years - art from NRW on the move, Museum of the City of Ratingen / Flottmannhallen Herne / Galerie Münsterland eV, Emsdetten (2007)
• 2005 euroscreen21projects - 2005/6, Städtisches Museum Wesel
• 2004 medium medien, Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle
• 2004 Lets make things better: Thomas Säckl, Gudrun Kemsa, ram foundation, Rotterdam
• 2004 Of bodies and other things - German photography from the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic, Moscow House of Photography / Museum Bochum
• 2003 Of bodies and other things - German photography from the Weimar Republic to the Berlin Republic, City Galerie Prague / German Historical Museum Berlin
• 2002 Turning - Circulating - Rotating, Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg / Art Museum Heidenheim / Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern
• 2002 today until now, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
• 2002 Speed ​​- Terrain of Time, Art Adapter Wiesbaden
• 2002 go public - transmediale .02, House of World Cultures, Berlin
• 2001 Act 1 - The Power of Habit, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
• 2001 photography from North Rhine-Westphalia, former imperial abbey, Aachen / Kornelimünster
• 2000 8th Marl Video Art Prize , Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl

Awards and honors

• 2010 Kunststiftung NRW, publication funding for the book URBAN STAGE
• 2008 Special Prize of the 13th Marl Video Art Prize
• 2004 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 2000 working scholarship at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne, awarded as part of the 9th Marler Video Art Prize
• 1999 project grant at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe
• 1996/97 Villa Massimo Scholarship, Rome
• 1989 travel grant to Italy from the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen , Düsseldorf

Web links

• Literature by and about Gudrun Kemsa in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Gudrun Kemsa

Individual evidence

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