Petra Wunderlich
Petra Wunderlich (* 1954 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German photo artist from Düsseldorf .
Life
From 1975 to 1985 she studied painting at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris , and from 1985 to 1988 photography with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . She is one of the founders of the Düsseldorf Photo School .
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Petra Wunderlich takes photos with a 5 × 7 medium format camera. She always photographs her horizontal format black and white photos early in the morning in the first light of day and from an elevated position. Her works are deserted and the section is always chosen so that no horizon can be seen in the picture.
Church buildings and quarries are central themes in Wunderlich's work. She has been photographing the quarries in Carrara since the 1980s and Solnhofen since the 1990s. Partly ancient quarries that have been out of service for a long time and have been left open. They allow a view of the rock layers that depict the history of art and architecture, as the great masters like Michelangelo got their stones from Carrara, but also architects and builders since the Roman Empire .
Stone is also the starting material for churches . For the mapping series (1994–1998) Petra Wunderlich photographed the many free churches in Brooklyn . It shows how the various ethnic groups inscribe their own religion and aesthetics into the cityscape and transform uniform concrete boxes into religious places by designing the facades with writing and religious symbols. From 1995 to 2015 Petra Wunderlich photographed a series of synagogues in New York City , which was shown for the first time under the title "Common Ground" in the Bernhard Knaus Fine Art gallery, Frankfurt.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2017 Photographs Become Pictures - Städelsches Kunstinstitut , Frankfurt / Main
- 2017 Petra Wunderlich - Stefan Gritsch , Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
- 2016 The typological view - exhibition for Hilla Becher, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
- 2016 With A Touch Of Pink - With A Bit Of Violet - With A Hint Of Green - Dorothee Fischer - In Memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
- 2016 In Germany: Reloaded (II), curated by Wilhelm Schürmann , Kicken Berlin, Berlin
- 2014 Compilation Places, Tschudi Gallery, Zuoz
- 2014 From Here To Now, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
- 2013 Common Ground, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
- 2013 No-Men`s land - 7 positions in contemporary photography, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg, Aschaffenburg
- 2011 The Invention of Reality - Photography at the Art Academy Düsseldorf from 1970 to haute, Academy Gallery, Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf
- 2010 Compilation, Daniele Buetti , Petra Wunderlich, Marcel Odenbach , Lawrence Weiner , Ayşe Erkmen , a. a., Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt Am Main
- 2009 Tschudi Gallery, Zuoz
- 2009 Schirmer Mosel Showroom, Munich
- 2008 Tschudi Gallery, Zuoz
- 2008 Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , Paris, France
- 2006 Orchard, New York City (with Zoe Leonard)
- 2004 Manzana della Rivera, Asuncion, Paraguay
- 2004 Centro Cultural Parque des Espana, Argentina
- 2004 Facultad de Arquitectura, San Juan, Argentina
- 2004 Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Cordoba, Argentina
- 2004 Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 2004 Tschudi Gallery, Glarus
- 2003 DAAD Gallery , Berlin
- 2002 Tschudi Gallery, Glarus
- 2001 Schirmer / Mosel Showroom, Munich
- 2000 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1999 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1998 Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia , Düsseldorf
- 1998 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
- 1998 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1996 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1995 Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe
- 1995 New Museum Weserburg, Bremen
- 1995 Museum Wiesbaden (Nassauischer Kunstverein)
- 1995 California Museum of Photography, Los Angeles
- 1995 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington DC
- 1993 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1991 Förderkoje Art Cologne , Cologne
- 1991 Westphalian Art Association , Münster
- 1990 Academy of the Arts Munich
- 1990 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
- 1987 Orange office, Munich
- 1985 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle Munich
Web links
- art aspects
- Petra Wunderlich on artsy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jana Baumann: Photographs become images, the mug class. In: Städel Museum, Frankfurt. Städel Museum, Frankfurt, June 27, 2017, accessed on October 26, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wonderful, Petra |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photo artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |