Katharina Mayer

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Katharina Mayer (* 1958 in Rottweil ) is a German photographer and video artist .

Portrait of the German photographer Katharina Mayer.

Career

In 1982 Katharina Mayer began studying art history in Freiburg im Breisgau , which she finished in 1987. She then went to Düsseldorf to study photography at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1993 she completed her studies with Bernd Becher and Nan Hoover .

In 1995 she taught photography at the Kulturforum Neuss . In 1996 she received a teaching position for photography at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences and at the Federal Academy for Cultural Education in Wolfenbüttel . In 1998 she co-founded the "onomato" , a Düsseldorf artist video and sound archive (within the framework of the onomato artists' association, which was created in conjunction with the onomato publishing house ). From 2000–2013 she and Birgitta Thaysen directed the school for artistic photography in Düsseldorf.

Since 2012 she has been heading the photography course at the Berlin Technical Art College (BTK), Iserlohn campus.

Exhibitions

The works of Katharina Mayer are represented in the collections: Deutsche Bank London, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Art Museum Cologne, E.ON Düsseldorf, Consulting and Auditing Company mbH (BPG) Krefeld, Upper Austrian State Museums, Landesgalerie Linz, State Gallery Stuttgart .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 Theatrum familiae , solo exhibition in the Städtische Galerie Offenburg
  • 2011 Theatrum familiae , solo exhibition at the Lausberg Gallery in Düsseldorf
  • 2010 faitiche , solo exhibition at the art association Roter Pavillon, Bad Doberan
  • 2008 Paula Modersohn-Becker and Katharina Mayer - an encounter , solo exhibition in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen
  • 2007 No norm - Out of Order / Katharina Mayer and Shahryar Nashat , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation
  • 2007 banquet of friends , photography, fiftyfifty gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2007 familia , photography, Rupert Pfab Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2007 Borderland - Flying Homeland (Pictures of Youths) , Chats Palace London, sponsored by Deutsche Bank London and IFA Stuttgart
  • 2006 Sèance , solo exhibition in the Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz
  • 2006 Personal Propaganda , solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Eislingen
  • 2006 Carrie and I , solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Detmold
  • 2005 Katharina Mayer, photography, Purdy & Hicks Gallery, London
  • 2005 Türkt , solo exhibition in the municipal gallery, Orthez , France
  • 2005 Türkt , solo exhibition at the Metronom, Barcelona
  • 2004 Séance , Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 2003 Waldkraiburg
  • 2003 MOMENTS OF ABSENCE : Photography and video by Katharina Mayer
  • 2003 IG Metall-Haus, metal gallery, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003 Goethe Institute, London
  • 2003 Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 2003 Forum Art Rottweil
  • 2003 Moments of Absence , Galerie Christa Burger, Munich, Städt.Galerie
  • 2002 Hanse Communication Center, Lübeck
  • 2001 Kalkar Museum; Gallery Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 1999 Room X Onomato , projection, Düsseldorf
  • 1999 Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 1998 Fuji, Düsseldorf; Maria Frieden Rehabilitation, Berlin
  • 1997/98 St. Petri, Lübeck
  • 1996 Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss
  • 1995 Attitude - Photography, Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 1993 Control - Photography, Kunstverein Heilbronn

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

  • 2011 Family - Picture and Presentation , with Eva Mahn , City Museum Leinfelden-Echterdingen
  • 2009 guest performance , Hetjens Museum Düsseldorf, group exhibition with 14 photo and video artists for the 100th anniversary of the museum
  • 2009 family life , group exhibition at the art association Hildesheim
  • 2009 familia and inner ocean , exhibition with Birgitta Thaysen , book presentations
  • 2008 Art history according to art history , group exhibition, curated by Martin Hochleitner , Fotohof, Salzburg, and Blickle Foundation
  • 2007 No norm - Out of Order / Katharina Mayer and Shahryar Nashat , Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Foundation
  • 2003 Wonderlands , Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg
  • 2003 of bodies and other things , Prague
  • 2002 Robert Koch Hospital, Stuttgart
  • 2002 Miss You , Museum of Contemporary Art Freiburg
  • 2002 today until now , contemporary photography from Düsseldorf, museum kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
  • 2000 Purdy / Hicks Gallery, London
  • 2000 Transfer , CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Bilbao, San Sebastian
  • 2000 photo portrait concept , Kulturforum Alte Post, Neuss
  • 2000 The injured diva , Innsbruck / Munich / Baden-Baden
  • 2000 Seeing being seen , Gaby Kraushaar Gallery
  • 1999 Galerie Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf
  • 1999 Photo Days Herten
  • 1999 Cork Gallery in Lincoln Center, New York
  • 1999 Museum Ludwig , Cologne
  • 1999 Transfer to Morsbroich Castle , Leverkusen
  • 1999 self portrait , Agathenburg Castle
  • 1998 Science Park , Gelsenkirchen
  • 1998 Images of People , Cloppenburg
  • 1998 acoustic projection , with J. and Michael Rüsenberg , Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf
  • 1997 Winter Exhibition NRW, Ehrenhof, Düsseldorf
  • 1997 Room X, Düsseldorf, with B. Herbert
  • 1997 Galerie van Kranendonk, The Hague
  • 1997 StadtART , Kultursekreteriat Gütersloh , Ahlen
  • 1996 Ohme Jupp poster campaign , with B. Herbert, Düsseldorf
  • 1996 Habitus , Fotohof Salzburg
  • 1995 Living Image , performance with B. Herbert, performance days, Düsseldorf Art Academy
  • 1994 Treibhaus 6 , Düsseldorf, DB - S gallery, Antwerp
  • 1994 Rottweiler summer
  • 1993 In the meantime , artist association Malkasten , Düsseldorf
  • 1992 Spektakel 92 , festival of the art and music academies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Aalto-Theater Essen, participation with a photo installation
  • 1992 Makroville - Super 8 film, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
  • 1992 The conductor , concerted action in five languages, performance, Düsseldorf Art Academy
  • 1992 Becher class , Eller cultural station, Düsseldorf
  • 1991 Lichtzwang - photo installation, free artist group Freiburg
  • 1989 Relatively subjective , free artist group Freiburg e. V.

Awards, grants and teaching

  • 2011 curator of the exhibitions lyrical correctness and Halacha as part of the Jewish Culture Days in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2011 Design of the Blue Planet Award for Angela Davis 2010 Israel - Scholarship from the city of Düsseldorf, 5 weeks stay in Israel
  • 2011 coordination and organization of the projects Lyrical correctness, Halacha / der Weg, as part of the Jewish Culture Days in North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 2011 Economy meets Art, award for the long-term cooperation with the companies Grieger, Mergemeier and fiftyfifty
  • 2011 Design of the Blue Planet Award, succeeding Otto Piene
  • 2009/10 visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , project faitiche
  • 2009/10 initiator of the first onomato grant for soundtrack and video art, in cooperation with the city of Düsseldorf
  • 2005–2008 teaching position for photography at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences , Krefeld
  • 2004 Welde Passion Art Prize
  • 2004 Scholarship from the Frauenkulturbüro Krefeld
  • 2000 Foundation of the Düsseldorf School for Artistic Photography with Birgitta Thaysen
  • 1999 co-founding of onomato, artist video archive and association
  • 1999 Transfer exchange scholarship Germany / Spain, stay of several months in Santiago de Compostela
  • 1999 Aenne Biermann Prize , Gera
  • 1998 Project Maria Frieden, Berlin, workshop and portrait work lasting several weeks in the rehabilitation center Maria Frieden for mentally and physically disabled women
  • 1998 ARTE - portrait of Katharina Mayer by Sylvain Roumette
  • 1996 teaching position for photography, FH Düsseldorf and Federal Academy Wolfenbüttel
  • 1996 New York scholarship from the Ernst Poensgen Foundation , Düsseldorf
  • 1995 teaching activity in the field of photography, Kulturforum Neuss
  • 1993 Photo Prize of the City of Essen

Publications

  • 2010/11 radix , first artist book series k – buch + edition, with 13 Israeli artists
  • 2010/11 letter to an old lady , artist book
  • 2010/11 Shrine must be , artist book as part of the exhibition theatrum familiae in the Städtische Galerie Offenburg, February 2011
  • 2009 familia , photo book. Kehrer Verlag , Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-86828-057-9 .
  • 2009 from the familia series , published in the architecture magazine Betonprisma
  • 2009 Catalog Familienleben , Kunstverein Hildesheim
  • 2008 Katharina Mayer. Paula Modersohn-Becker. An encounter , catalog as part of the solo exhibition in the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen
  • 2005 Mythical Places , commissioned book project with Iris Schuermann-Mock, Gerstenberg Verlag and Bertelsmann
  • 2004 Women and the Sea , commissioned book project with Florence Hervé , Gerstenberg Verlag
  • 2003 Carrie and Me , photo book, Modo Verlag
  • 2001 sister , photo book with audio CD, Wienand Verlag
  • 1999 Séance , artist book, hand prints, prints, edition 77, with audio book acoustic seance

literature

  • Gaby Kraushaar and Jochen Krüper (eds.): Katharina Mayer. Sister. Photography , Wienand Verlag Cologne, ISBN 3-87909-767-4

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rottweil