Kerstin Zillmer

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Kerstin Zillmer (born March 9, 1962 in Bielefeld ) is a German photographer .

Life

The master student of Prof. Arno Fischer studied photography from 1989 to 1994 at the University of Applied Arts under Vicente del Amo in Granada (Spain). She has been living as a freelance photographer in Berlin since 1993 .

Since 1994 numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in Germany, France, Spain and Poland, including the solo exhibitions Die Autonomie der Dinge (Nantes 2005), The Other Life ( Kunsthalle Erfurt 2002) and Leisure Time with a Short Arm (Gustav-Lübcke-Museum Hamm 2000) .

2005 artist in residence at the 9 ° Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise in Nantes (France). Her illustrated book Children of Hopelessness about the life of Berlin street children , sponsored by the Saarland Foundation , was published in 1997. With the artist collective Pruebas Urbanas, she received an award in 1992 for the photo performance Secuencias Ferrosas at the Arnhem Performance Festival.

In 2010 her illustrated book Hinter der Linden was published. The Berlin State Ballet as artistic documentation of the rooms and people of the Berlin State Ballet in the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, which is about to be renovated .

Since 2016 she has been editor-in-chief of the online magazine float , which she co-founded and which is thematically devoted to everything "that moves on water".

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Hinter den Linden , Galerie exposure twelve , Berlin 2011
  • The autonomy of things , 9 ° Quinzaine Photographique Nantaise, Nantes (France) 2005
  • The other life , Kunsthalle Erfurt 2002
  • Leisure time with a short arm. Interior views of a prison , Gustav-Lübcke-Museum , Hamm 2000
  • Street children in Germany , traveling exhibition with around 20 stations in Berlin, Krakow, Dresden, Cottbus and Saarbrücken, 1994–2000
  • El Vigésimo , photo installation, 2 ° Festival de Performance, Granada (Spain) 1993
  • Secuencias Ferrosas , performance (conception, photography, direction) with the artist collective Pruebas Urbanas , performances in Granada, Barcelona, ​​Cordoba, Seville, Madrid and Arnhem 1991–1992

literature

  • Behind the linden trees. The Berlin State Ballet with an essay by Jutta Voigt , Edition Braus, Heidelberg / Berlin 2010
  • 2020. Children and young people about our future with Uwe Britten , Rowohlt, Reinbek 2000
  • Children of Hopelessness , Votum, Münster 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ float magazine
  2. ↑ Official website of the gallery exposure twelve
personal data
SURNAME Zillmer, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and photo journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld