Katharina Sieverding

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Katharina Sieverding (born November 16, 1944 in Prague ) is a German photographer . She is one of the pioneers in expanding the possibilities of expression in the medium of photography. Her serial photo series are both an expression of reflections on her own identity and a position on political and social issues. With large-format photo works, Katharina Sieverding renewed the artistic potential of photography.

Katharina Sieverding in her exhibition "Art and Capital" in the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, March 10, 2017

Life

Katharina Sieverding was born in Prague. She studied from 1963 to 1964 at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and from 1964 to 1967 with Teo Otto in the stage design class at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf . In 1967 she moved to Joseph Beuys' class , where she completed her studies as a master class student in 1972. Between 1972 and 1988 she traveled to the USA , China and the Soviet Union .

She has been working with large photography since 1975. In her works, Sieverding deals with the connection between microscopic and macroscopic, individual and global processes. From 1992 to 2007 she was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts . Her students include Jorinde Voigt , Natascha Sadr Haghighian , Heike Baranowsky and Ina Bierstedt .

From 1995 to 1998, as well as in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007, she taught at the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts in Salzburg , and in 2002 and 2004 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou . From 2008 to 2013 Sieverding was a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Since 2010 she has been teaching at the Graduate School of the Berlin University of the Arts. Katharina Sieverding has lived in Düsseldorf since 1964.

Public collections

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards

Publications

  • Sieverding. Edition Cantz, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-485-8 .
  • Katharina Sieverding: Stauffenberg Block I-XVI / 1969. Fotohofedition, Salzburg 1996, ISBN 3-901756-01-9 .
  • Katharina Sieverding: in Austria, 1964–2008. Vol. 1 Salzburg. Fotohofedition, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902675-00-2 .
  • Katharina Sieverding: Testcuts, Projected Data Images. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-8321-9369-0 .
  • Renate Buschmann / Tiziana Caianiello: Media Art Installations. Preservation and presentation. Concretions of the fugitive - case study 4 Testcuts I by Katharina Sieverding (p. 127 ff.) Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-496-01463-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharina Sieverding's biography in: Rrose is a rrose is a rrose: gender performance in photography, Jennifer Blessing, Judith Halberstam, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum 1997, 223 pages, page 217
  2. ↑ a b Awarding of the Kaiserring by the city of Goslar ( memento of October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ Bundestag website , accessed on September 20, 2012.
  4. ^ German Bundestag: Memorial for the persecuted Reichstag members of the Weimar Republic in the Reichstag building
  5. ↑ In detail: The new university councils. In: Der Standard from February 20, 2008. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  6. ^ The sun in its midnight form in FAZ from September 25, 2013, page 29
  7. ↑ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on May 2, 2014.
  8. ↑ Adalys Pérez Suárez: Inauguradas muestras de Katharina Sieverding y Gomez de la Carrera en la Fototeca de Cuba. (No longer available online.) In: El Periódico Cubarte. www.cubarte.cult.cu, archived from the original on December 3, 2017 ; accessed on October 6, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Kulturkreis.eu: Well-known ars viva award winners / 1979 Katharina Sieverding ( Memento from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 6, 2019)
  10. ↑ Report from the culture magazine 3sat Kulturzeit from December 21, 1016
  11. ↑ Imai website ( Memento of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 6, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sieverding, Katharina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague