Helga Paris
Helga Paris (* May 21, 1938 as Helga Steffens in Gollnow , Pomerania ) is a German photographer who became known in the GDR for her everyday photographs , among other things .
Live and act
After graduating from high school in Zossen , Helga Paris studied fashion design at the clothing college in Berlin from 1956 to 1960 and did an internship at VEB Treffmodelle Berlin. She then worked as a teacher for costume design and as a commercial artist . From 1964 she began to acquire the basics of photography autodidactically. Since she was very interested in photography, she worked from 1967 to 1968 as a photo laboratory assistant, then as a freelance photographer. Your work is very diverse. In 1975 she photographed scenes from productions by Benno Besson at the Volksbühne in Berlin and in 1978 had her first personal exhibition at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts .
In the mid-1980s, it documented the structural decay of downtown Halle . The exhibition planned for 1986 “Houses and Faces. Halle 1983–1985 ”in the Marktschlößchen gallery in Halle was canceled a few days before the opening because her pictures too obviously showed the bad housing policy in Halle. A catalog and exhibition posters had already been printed.
Helga Paris has been a member of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) (AdK) since 1996 . In 2003, her exhibition of the twelve-part series Self-Portraits 1981–1988 as part of the exhibition Art in the GDR in the New National Gallery in Berlin received great attention. She donated her archive with over 230,000 negatives to the Akademie der Künste.
Helga Paris was married to the painter Ronald Paris from 1961 to 1974 . The marriage resulted in two children (1962 and 1964). She has lived in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years .
Awards
- 2004: Hannah Höch Prize
- 2019: Culture Prize of the DGPh as "Well-deserved chronicler of her time"
Exhibitions (selection)
For further exhibitions see under web links: Helga Paris on kunstaspekte.de.
Solo exhibitions
- 2004/05: Helga Paris: Photographs 1974–2004 , Sprengel Museum Hannover , September 15, 2004 to February 13, 2005, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus , March 1 to April 30, 2005
- 2004/05: Helga Paris: Photographs 1967–1996 , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin, November 13, 2004 to January 21, 2005
- 2012: Helga Paris: Fotografie / Photography . An exhibition by the ifa, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations in the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig
- 2019/20: Helga Paris, photographer . Retrospective with 275 works, Akademie der Künste (Berlin) Pariser Platz, November 8, 2019 to January 12, 2020
Group exhibitions
- 2009: Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 25 - April 19, 2009
- 2010: Eros and Stasi. East German Photography Collection Gabriele Koenig , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
- 2011/12: PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! , Sprengel Museum Hannover in cooperation with the Lower Saxony Sparkasse Foundation , October 9, 2011 to January 15, 2012
- 2012: Closed Society - Artistic Photography in the GDR 1949–1989, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, October 5, 2012 to January 28, 2013
- 2018: I'm a Believer. Pop Art and contemporary art from the Lenbachhaus and the KiCo Foundation , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich (since March 20, 2018)
Works
SERIES (selection)
- 1974: garbage collector
- 1975: Berlin corner pubs
- 1975: furniture carrier
- 1980: Retirement home
- 1980: Transylvania
- 1981–1982: Berlin youth
- 1981–1989: self-portraits
- 1982: Georgia
- 1983–1985: Houses and Faces. Hall 1983–1985
- 1984: Women in the VEB Treffmodelle clothing factory, Berlin
- 1987-1988: New York
- 1993: Friedrichshain
- 1994: memories of Z.
- 1995–1996: Il Legionario, Rome 1995/96
- 1996–1997: Podróż Polska - The Polish Journey, 1996/97
- 1998: Hellersdorf
Besides u. a. Theater photography and numerous portraits of poets and artists
literature
- Anke Scharnhorst: Paris, Helga . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
Photo books, catalogs
- Diva in gray. Houses and faces in Halle. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2000. New edition with changed design: 2006, ISBN 3-89812-361-8 .
- Inka Schube (Ed.): Helga Paris: Photographs. Texts by Jean Francois Chevier, Elke Erb, Helmut Brade, Helga Paris, Inka Schube. Holzwarth, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935567-19-7 . (Exhibition catalog, 318 pages).
- Hannah Höch Prize 2004: Helga Paris. Photographs 1967–1996 . Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-927873-89-6 . (Exhibition catalog, 31 pages).
- Agneta Maria Jilek: metaphors of the urban. The photo series Houses and Faces Halle 1983–1985 by Helga Paris. In: Franziska Eißner (Hrsg.), Michael Scholz-Hänsel (Hrsg.): Poverty in modern art . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89445-448-7 .
- Elke from the Moore (ed.): Helga Paris, photography. ifa, Institute for Foreign Relations. Texts by Helga Paris, Inka Schube. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3490-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Helga Paris in the catalog of the German National Library
- Video of the touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations in the GfZK in Leipzig on January 17, 2013
- Excerpt from "Ostfotografinnen" 2006 Helga Paris talks about her photo series "Houses and Faces of the City of Halle"
- Where to look Article in Die Zeit of November 24, 1989
- That's where I come from. Article by Ingeborg Ruthe in the Berliner Zeitung on November 13, 2004
- Helga Paris on kunstaspekte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ ArtFacts: Helga Paris | Artist. Retrieved December 12, 2019 .
- ^ Gunnar Decker : Everyday life as transit to the exhibition in the AdK in new Germany , November 8, 2019
- ↑ Lenbachhaus - I'm a Believer. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paris, Helga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steffens, Helga (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gollnow , Pomerania |