Ilona Klimek

Ilona Klimek (* 1970 in Cologne-Vingst ) is a German artist , photographer and non-fiction author.

Live and act

After graduating from the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Cologne) , she was employed from 1990 to 1996 as an intern and assistant in the Geissler photo studio in Cologne. She then took part in advertising campaigns for large cosmetics companies and in planning and conducting workshops for Fujifilm in Cyprus . Since 1995 she has been doing her own photo projects as a freelance artist with the 8x10 inch Deardorff large format camera , experimenting with light effects (House-Master Light Painting System) and in 1996 organized her first exhibition at the Skala gallery in Cologne .

In the first half of 1997 she began working with Jörg Immendorff (1947–2007) - of which she purchased her illustrated book Intensive in 2007 - 48 hours with Jörg Immendorff . Since 1998 she has been carrying out orders for the Agfa-Gevaert Group . In 1999 she founded their own studio in Cologne-Neustadt-Süd and put the series of images: flowers black and white , flowers red , Châteu de Graaf , Little Adolf , Duck Tales , No etiquette , Portraits Immendorff from.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1995: Art 1995, Leverkusen
• 1996: International photo scene, Galerie Skala, Cologne
• 1997: Photoworld Agfa Gevaert, Moscow
• 1998: Venus 1998, Maisenbacher Art Gallery, Berlin
• 1998: Art Frankfurt , Galerie Skala
• 2002: Senftröpfchen-Theater, Cologne
• 2002: Turbon AG , Hattingen
• 2003: Château de Graaf , Montzen , Belgium
• 2003: Lust for red, Atelier Ilona Klimek, Cologne
• 2005: Art Cologne , Art Cologne, Fair 2005
• 2006: Duingalerie, Domburg , Netherlands
• 2007: Intensive - 48 hours with Jörg Immendorff, book presentation with Christine Westermann
• 2008: Exhibition for Art Cologne at Selinka-Schmitz with the Thomas Zander gallery
• 2008: Theater im Walzwerk, Pulheim
• 2011: Artists Week Schildersweek, Domburg , Netherlands
• 2011: Quirin Bank AG, Save Höfe, Cologne, welcome: Lutz Matulla

Books (selection)

• with Ingo Fischer, Sascha Krüger : Intensive - 48 hours with Jörg Immendorff, 29. – 30. May 1997 . Love, Faith, Hope Media Agency, Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-00-022349-5 .
• with Wolfgang Nitschke : Bestseller eating [1]. A literary slaughter plate. With photos by Ilona Klimek . Edition Tiamat , Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89320-023-1 . - Item 84, in the Critica diabolica series .
• with Kim Heisterkamp, ​​Klaus Michels, Peter Strobel, Joachim Badura: home game. Brings - Songbook . Music publisher Hans Gerig, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 978-3872523464 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ilona Klimek in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Web presence - Ilona Klimek.
• Ilona Klimek's biographical note. (PDF; 909 kB) 2007.
• Prof. Leo Fritz Gruber on Ilona Klimek (English).