Regina Schmeken

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Regina Schmeken (* 1955 in Gladbeck ) is a German photo artist .

Live and act

Regina Schmeken studied German and art in Essen and Munich.

Her first series of photos were taken from 1977 to 1982 during longer stays in Paris, New York and Milan. In 1978 she received the Prix ​​de la Critique at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France. From 1980 her work was exhibited regularly. She has been an editorial photographer for the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1986 .

Regina Schmeken photographs in black and white. Her style, which is characterized by strong contrasts ( low-key ), is " subjective " and "metaphorical" but "unpathetic". Schmeken never looks for its motifs in the focal points, but always in the casual and in the shadow of the daily topicality. In 1994 Claus Heinrich Meyer wrote in the catalog book for the exhibition Closed Society : It was a good fortune that Regina Schmeken left the open space and immersed herself in "political photography" as a child of the world ... first of all there was the subjective translator patent, Regina Schmeken's subjective instant recognition ; together they went on trips and effortlessly overcame the supposedly objective medium of photography. Michael Koetzle said in 1996 about Regiona Schmeken: Schmeken did not attend or graduate from a photography school in the narrower sense, did not join any direction, did not endorse any manifestos. Over the years she trained her vision, looked for a personal point of view, an artistic form of expression.

Regina Schmeken is the daughter of Ewald Schmeken . She is a member of the German Photographic Academy (DFA).

Regina Schmeken lives and works in Berlin.

Awards

Exhibitions

Regina Schmeken's work was shown in over 30 solo and 20 group exhibitions. One of her first participation in an exhibition was the group exhibition 12 German Photographers at the Photokina in 1980 . Exhibitions abroad took place in the Netherlands ( Rotterdam ), Japan ( Tokyo , Osaka , Sapporo ) and France ( Paris ). From 2002 to 2006 her exhibition Die neue Mitte was on a world tour with over 80 stations on the initiative of the Goethe Institute . Her work can be seen in public collections around the world.

Solo exhibitions

Working in public collections

Publications

  • Alexander von Knorre (Ed.): Regina Schmeken. Photographs, works from 1980–1985. Exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Rathauspark Gladbeck, February 9th - April 6th 1986 and exhibition in the Städtische Galerie im Schlosspark Strünkede / Herne, April 11th - May 19th 1986. Texts by Ewald Schmeken and François Aubral. Emschertal-Museum, Herne 1986, ISBN 3-922987-11-7 .
  • Closed society. Photographs 1989-1993. Catalog book for the exhibition. Kunstmann, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-88897-089-X .
  • The new center. Germany 1989-2000. Catalog book for the exhibition with texts by Julian Nida-Rümelin . Knesebeck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-89660-091-5 .
  • Among players. The national team. Catalog book for the exhibition. Cantz, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-3440-0 .
  • Bloody ground. The NSU crime scenes. Catalog book for the exhibition. Hatje-Cantz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4158-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans-Michael Koetzle: The Lexicon of Photographers , Droemer Knaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3426664798 , p. 401f.
  2. ↑ a b Reinhold Mißelbeck (Ed.): Prestel-Lexikon der Photographers , Prestel, Munich 2002, ISBN 3791325299 , p. 214.
  3. ↑ Regina Schmeken: Closed society . Kunstmann, Munich, ISBN 3-88897-089-X .
  4. ↑ Photo Technik International. 1996.
  5. ↑ See list of members on the DFA website.
  6. ↑ Dr. Erich Salomon Prize, 1996
  7. ^ Regina Schmeken - Exhibition: The New Center - Photographs 1989–2000. Goethe Institute
  8. ^ German Historical Museum, 1994
  9. ^ Museum of Photography, 2006 ( Memento from June 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Regina Schmeken - no sports on photography-now.com, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  11. ↑ Manhattan Skyline on hkw.de, accessed November 10, 2017.
  12. ^ Regina Schmeken - Photographs 2004–2012 at galeriesusannealbrecht.de, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  13. ^ Regina Schmeken - Among players - The national team on berlinerfestspiele.de, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  14. ↑ Regina Schmeken - Dortmund: Shapes of Light and Men of Sorrows ( Memento from November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on art-magazin.de, accessed on November 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Communication on villastuck.de, accessed on June 28, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Bloody Floor" - Regina Schmeken shows NSU crime scenes. In: The time . July 29, 2017. Retrieved November 3, 2017
  17. ↑ Berliner Festspiele - Martin-Gropius-Bau: Regina Schmeken on berlinerfestspiele.de, accessed on November 3, 2017
  18. ↑ Bloody soil - NSU crime scenes at muenchner-galerien.de
  19. ^ Collection Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
personal data
SURNAME Taste, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photo artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbeck