Jessica Backhaus

Jessica Backhaus (2015)

Jessica Backhaus (born 1970 in Cuxhaven ) is a German-American photographer. Her work focuses on objects and situations of everyday life, which she documents and stages in brightly colored photographs.

Life

Backhaus grew up in Berlin. At the age of sixteen she went to Paris as an exchange student, but did not return from there and began studying visual communication there after graduating from high school. In 1990 she began to study the writings and works of Gisèle Freund , two years later she met Freund personally at a conference. The women became friends and at the same time Freund developed into a mentor for Backhaus.

Backhaus finished her studies in 1995 and moved to New York where she assisted various photographers and developed her own projects. During this time she regularly traveled to her mother in Poland and took numerous photos there. A photo book compiled from it was published in 2005 under the title Jesus and the Cherries and ensured her breakthrough. In 2008 the band What Still Remains followed and in 2009 the band One Day in November , which she dedicated to Gisèle Freund, who had died eight years earlier. Backhaus returned to Germany from the USA in 2009.

Publications

A Trilogy, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2017
Six Degrees of Freedom, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2015
Women Photographers , Boris Friedewald, Prestel, 2014
The Photographers Sketchbook , Thames & Hudson, London, 2014
Homeland? Eastern Europe in Contemporary Photography , Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, 2014
Once, still and forever , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin, 2012
Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the senses , Hatje Cantz, 2012
One day - 10 Photographers , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin, 2010
The world is getting more beautiful every day , Edition, Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2010
I wanted to see the world , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin, 2010
One day in November , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008
What Still Remains , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008
XL Photography 3 , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2007
Jesus and the Cherries , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005

Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States
Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Germany
Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida, United States
Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Collection, Akron, Ohio, United States
ING Art Collection, Belgium
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), France
Artothèque de Passac, France
Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Germany
Art Collection, Cleveland Clinic, United States
Private Collections, Europe and the United States

Solo exhibitions

2014 - "Once, still and forever", Micamera, Milan, Italy.
2013 - "Once, still and forever", Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium.
2013 - "Once, still and forever", Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, USA.
2013 - "Classic-Contemporary", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
2013 - "Once, still and forever", Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2013 - "Once, still and forever", Wouter van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2013 - "Once, still and forever", PARIS PHOTO LA, Robert Morat Galerie booth, Los Angeles, USA.
2012 - “Once, still and forever”, Knut Osper project space, Cologne, Germany.
2012 - “One day in November” & “What still remains”, Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium.
2011 - “I wanted to see the world”, Clairefontaine Gallery, Luxembourg.
2011 - “I wanted to see the world & New Works”, Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2010 - “I wanted to see the world” Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA.
2010 - “The world is getting more beautiful every day” & “All about my mother”, European Month of Photography Berlin, Vice Versa Showroom, Berlin, Germany.
2009 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, “Transphotographiques 2009”, Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France.
2009 - “What Still Remains” & “One Day in November”, Robert Morat Gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2009 - “What Still Remains” & “Jesus and the Cherries”, Städtische Galerie, Waldkraiburg, Germany.
2008 - “One day in November” & “What Still Remains”, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria.
2008 - “What Still Remains” & “Jesus and the Cherries”, Galerie im Schloß Borbeck, Essen, Germany.
2006 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, Month of Photography, Krakow, Poland.
2006 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, Municipal Gallery, Canvas House, Frankfurt, Germany.
2006 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA.
2005 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, “Lichtwiesen”, Darmstadt Days of Photography, Germany.
2005 - “Jesus and the Cherries”, Kirsten Roschlaub Gallery, Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, Germany.