Monica Beurer

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Monica Beurer (2009)

Monica Beurer (born April 28, 1961 in Bülach ) is a freelance Swiss photographer , photography lecturer and author. She has been publishing under the stage name Monica Boirar since 2009 .

biography

After a pedagogical training and several years of professional experience with children as a teacher at all levels of elementary school, Monica Beurer Boirar was assistant to an advertising and fashion photographer in Zurich and a freelance photographer. At the beginning of the 1990s, she began to work as a journalist who took photos and sometimes also wrote as a journalist for magazines, specializing in dance and theater photography, portrait and reportage photography, and began realizing free artistic photographic work. She gained fame through the exhibition and the first photo book of the same name, “Carole - out of the norm”. With her teaching aid "Photography makes school", she wrote a didactic basic and standard work for elementary schools. She wrote the children's non-fiction book “Photography” in the Was ist Was series, which has been translated into several languages. As part of a third-party training, she studied at the universities of Zurich , Basel , Lausanne and at the Free University of Berlin . She obtained a BA Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences UZH in Journalism and an MA Master of Arts UZH in Film Studies . She wrote her master's thesis “Women photographers in fictional film - visual communication and intermediality investigated using four biopics” at the Film Studies seminar at the University of Zurich as part of the inter-university course “Network Cinema”. As a lecturer in photography, she has been teaching at several institutions, universities and technical colleges since the beginning of the 1990s, and in the spring semester of 2008 and 2011 also at the Art History Institute of the University of Zurich in the department of “Theory and History of Photography”. Since autumn 2011 she has been working on her dissertation “Masters of Color Photography - Strategies of color design in advertising and industrial photography (1950–1975) - Photographic classifications based on image examples from a Swiss company for color photography, dye transfer and photolithography”. In the summer of 2014 she founded Study F - Wissenschaftsverlag Fotografie GmbH. From 2013 to 2017 she wrote specialist articles on photography for the Swiss online magazine Fotointern, mostly leading articles, so-called top stories. She is the initiator and co-founder of the Pro FomaSchu association, which was launched in early 2017. The first project of the association started on June 2, 2018, the anniversary large group exhibition “10 years of photography goes to school” with photos from 52 participants in the Teufen arsenal in Appenzell Ausserrhoden. The traveling exhibition has since made guest appearances in German-speaking Switzerland. As accompanying material for the exhibition, the association provides media-didactic documents according to curriculum 21 for school classes visiting.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 1991/1992: Room F, Zurich City Art Scene, CH
  • 1993: Anti War Center, "Wimin in Black", Belgrade, YU
  • 1996: Silverstone Production, Zurich, Slide-Show, CH
  • 1998: Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg , D
  • 1998: Galerie Objekta, Kreuzlingen, CH
  • 1998: National Gallery Prague , CZ
  • 1999: Women's Museum, Wiesbaden, D
  • 1999: Kolpinghaus , Innsbruck, A
  • 2001: Gallery Nikon Image House, Küsnacht, ZH, CH
  • 2001: Der Teufelhof , Das Kultur- und Gasthaus Basel, CH
  • 2002: Leica Gallery Switzerland, Nidau, CH
  • 2003: Sigristenkeller Gallery, Bülach, CH
  • 2004: Gais Clinic, Gais, CH
  • 2005: Generali, Adliswil, CH
  • 2009: Triemli City Hospital , Zurich, CH

Group exhibitions

  • 1988: Musée d'histoire naturelle , Friborg, CH
  • 1991: Photoforum PasquArt, “Momento Monumenti”, Biel, CH
  • 1995: Photo Professional, Zurich, CH
  • 1995–1997: "Everyday life in Europe (e.g. ex-Yugoslavia)" Traveling exhibition at 14 locations: Bern, Uster, Basel, Zurich, Lucerne, St. Gallen, Thun, etc., CH
  • 1995: Zürcher Kunstszene 95/96, Zurich
  • 1995: German Photo Days, Cologne, D
  • 1995: Photoforum PasquArt, Biel
  • 1996: German Photo Days, Nuremberg, D
  • 1997: «Stadtmenschen» picture exchange, Krefeld-Venlo, Venlo, NL
  • 1997: Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, CH
  • 1998: «Horizonte», Photokina Cologne, D
  • 1998: «The image of people - The best photos from 50 years of Stern », Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg , D
  • 1998: Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, CH
  • 1999: Landhaus Bregenz , government building, A
  • 1999: «focus ver -rückt», Dornbirn City Museum , A
  • 1999: Swiss Press Photo 98, Musée suisse de l'appareil photog., Vevey, CH, Palexpo, Geneva, CH, Professional Imaging, Zurich, CH
  • 1999: «The image of people - The best photos from 50 years of Stern», Fotomesse Berlin, D
  • 1999: «Purchases / Achats», a selection by the Municipal Culture Commission, Alte Krone, Biel, CH
  • 1999: Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, CH
  • 1999: Fotoforum Black Forest, 2nd Schömberg Photo Autumn, Kurhaus Schömberg, D
  • 2000: Kunsthaus Bregenz , A as part of the international symposium «Freaks in Art», A
  • 2001: «The image of people - the best photos from 50 years of Stern», Heidelberg Castle , Heidelberg, D
  • 2001: Schömberger Photo Autumn, Photo Forum Black Forest, Kurhaus Schömberg, D
  • 2002: SleepArtPhoto 2000 "The art of sleep", Bree, B
  • 2003: Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, CH
  • 2004: Musée d'histoire naturelle, Friborg, CH

Book publications

  • Carole : Out of the norm; Photographs 1993–1997. Edition Frey, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-905509-20-2 . (With texts by Charles-Henri Favrod ... an essay by Patrick Frey and an afterword by Claudia Gabriele Philipp.)
  • Photography goes to school. Teaching materials for the 4th to 8th grade of elementary school. Bern 2005, ISBN 3-292-00382-2 .
  • Photography. Children's non-fiction book What is what? Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-7886-0403-5 . (Translation into Czech, 2007, into Hungarian, 2007, into Russian 2008, into Chinese 2010)
  • Women photographers in fictional film: visual communication and intermediality examined on four biopics. Zurich OCLC 780388485 (Master thesis University of Zurich, 2011, 127 pages, speaker Jörg Schweinitz ).

Awards

  • 1995: 1st prize for photojournalists from Emma and Leica, Cologne, D
  • 1996: Kodak European Gold Award, Lausanne, Golden Circle 95, CH
  • 1997: Kodak European Gold Award, Lausanne, Golden Circle 96, CH
  • 2002: SleepArtPhoto 2000, Bree, B, 2nd prize

Public project and work contributions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portfolio Monica Beurer Nina Corti, mirror image. In: Nikon News. Showtime, No. 4-1999, pp. 14-19.
  2. ↑ Monica Beurer Carole Piguet. In: Nikon News. Photo reportage, No. 4-1993, pp. 10-15.
  3. ↑ Monica Beurer portfolio. In: Leica Courrier. No. 72, April 2002, pp. 4-5.
  4. ↑ Monica Boirar: Robert Frank - Books as Art: Exhibition with his Art Photobooks at the Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte Appenzell In: Swiss Photo Collection , Editorial 2016, accessed on April 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ Monica Boirar: Annie Leibovitz, WOMEN: New Portraits at EWZ Selnau, Zurich In: Swiss Photo Collection , Editorial 2017, accessed on April 16, 2019.
  6. ↑ Monica Boirar: ART PHOTOGRAPHY IN ARCHITECTURE In: Swiss Photo Collection , Fine Art 2016, accessed on April 16, 2019.
  7. ↑ Irmgard Hochreither: “At some point you have got used to the pain” . In: Stern , October 28, 1993, No. 44, pp. 98-108.
  8. ↑ Fredi Bosshard: Carole Piguet and Monica Beurer. Light as a bird . In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung , November 27, 1997.
  9. ↑ Thomas Paul: "I see myself differently than you" . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Saturday / Sunday, 17./18. January 1998, No. 13, p. 53.
  10. ^ Christian Lohr : Look at Carol . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , August 11, 1998, No. 58, p. 66.
  11. ↑ Susanne Kusike: Resolute spirit in a fragile body . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine , March 10, 1999, No. 58, p. 66.
  12. ^ Anna Gripp: Monica Beurer, photography textbooks for children. In: Photonews , newspaper for photography, Hamburg, December 2006.
  13. ↑ Feli Schindler: Experimenting with the camera. In: Tages-Anzeiger . April 16. 2007.
  14. ↑ Short biography of Monica Boirar. In: Swiss Press Award , accessed on April 16, 2019.
  15. ↑ Theses at the University of Zurich in the inter-university degree in Network Cinema: Monica Beurer Boirar: Photographers in fictional film. Visual communication and intermediality examined on four biopics. 2011 . In: Resau / Netzwerk Cinema, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  16. ↑ Art History Institute of the University of Zurich: Monica Beurer Boirar. Lecturer in the spring semester 2011 at the Teaching and Research Center for Theory and History of Photography / Center for Studies in the Theory and History of Photography . In: University of Zurich, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  17. ↑ Marc Herren: Monica Boirar . In: fotoCH, online work on photography in Switzerland, August 20, 2015, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  18. ↑ Monica Boirar: Author . In: Photo internal, accessed on November 2, 2018.
  19. ↑ Alexandra Grüter-Axthammer: Photography is school - and fun In: Tüüfner Post Online, June 3, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018.
  20. ↑ Werner Schweizer: Open eyes are required: Experience photography In: Tüüfner Post Online, June 12, 2018.
  21. ^ Roger Fuchs: Experience Photography . In: Appenzeller Zeitung, June 6, 2018.
  22. ↑ Judith Schuck: Important things do not belong in the center . In: Weinfelder Nachrichten, July 12, 2018.
  23. ↑ Sabrina Bächi: The world behind the lens . In: Thurgauer Zeitung , July 13, 2018.
  24. ↑ Association Pro FomaSchu: exhibitors Swissdidac In: Visit SWISSDIDAC, accessed November 1, 2018th
  25. ↑ Association Pro FomaSchu: Exhibitor Worlddidac . In: Visit WORLDDIDAC, accessed on November 2, 2018.
  26. ↑ Pro FomaSchu association: Media didactic learning units for the anniversary exhibition 10 years of photography goes to school In: Zebis, portal for teachers, operated on behalf of the Conference of Educational Directors in Central Switzerland, October 19, 2018, accessed on November 1, 2018.
  27. ^ Art and culture: Carole Piguet - From the norm - Photographs by Monica Beurer. February 20, 1998 to April 26, 1998 . In: Kunst und Kultur, museum database, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  28. ^ BM-Online. Disabled people on the Internet: Carole out of the norm. Exhibition March 7th-25th April 1999 . In: BM-Online, 1999, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  29. ↑ Bieler Tagblatt, azw: Monica Beurer: Recordings from several stays in Calcutta, Murshidabad… . In: Bieler Tagblatt, March 13, 2002, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  30. ↑ Leica Courrier: Monica Beurer . In: Leica Courrier, pp. 4–5.
  31. ↑ Czech translation: Photography . In: Levné učebnice, accessed on March 20, 2016.
  32. ↑ Hungarian translation: Fenykepezes . In: Libri, accessed March 20, 2016.
  33. ↑ Monica Boirar's biography in the online work on historical photography in Switzerland, fotoCH, accessed on January 5, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Beurer, Monica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boirar, Monica (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss photographer, lecturer in photography and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bulach