Sibylle Bergemann

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Self-portrait by Sibylle Bergemann

Sibylle Bergemann (born August 29, 1941 in Berlin ; † November 1, 2010 near Gransee ) was a German photographer of international renown. In 1990 she co-founded the Ostkreuz photography agency .

Life

Bergemann completed a commercial training from 1958 to 1960 and worked in the profession until 1965. From 1965 to 1967 she worked in the editorial department of Das Magazin . In 1966 she began training as a photographer with Arno Fischer , to whom she had also been married since 1985. Since 1967 she has been a freelance photographer as a member of the Direkt group . Since 1969 photos of her have appeared in the weekly newspaper Sonntag , since 1973 in the fashion magazine Sibylle and in the magazine . She also worked for the book publisher Der Morgen and Greifenverlag .

In 1974 she had her first solo exhibition in the House of Young Talents in Berlin. In 1977 she became a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . From 1975 to 1986 she created a photo documentation on the development of the Marx-Engels-Forum in Berlin-Mitte as a multi-year commissioned work .

In 1990 she was a founding member of the Ostkreuz Photographers Agency . In 1991 she participated in the Almediterrana 92 project in Almería . Since 1994 she was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and in 2001 was a founding member of the “ Photography am Schiffbauerdamm ” school, and in 2005 of the Ostkreuz School for Photography and Design in Berlin-Weißensee . Bergemann and Fischer moved out of their apartment on Schiffbauerdamm in 2004 after 28 years of renovation . The apartment in the old building directly at the Friedrichstrasse station was a popular meeting place for GDR photographers and many internationally known photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson , Helmut Newton , Robert Frank , Josef Koudelka , Barbara Klemm and Ellen Auerbach . The head of the East Berlin Institut Français arranged many international contacts, who in 1988 also initiated her first departure from the GDR to Venice. They marked the end of their right of residence with a finissage , which in turn was documented in an exhibition. The project of a private school for budding photographers in the same building was also ended by the renovation. Her husband held most of his seminars here as a professor of photography in Leipzig. Bergemann attributed the outbreak of her cancer to the fact that she was forced to move out of this apartment.

In 2006/2007 the artist had a highly acclaimed exhibition at the Berlin Academy of the Arts and at the Museum for Photography in Braunschweig. In 2009 she presented some of her works in the group exhibition Ostzeit. Stories from a past country in the House of World Cultures in Berlin.

tomb

Sibylle Bergemann died after a long period of cancer. She is buried with her husband in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder parishes in Berlin-Mitte.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1974: House of Young Talents , Berlin
  • 1981: Neue Dresdner Galerie, Dresden
  • 1987: Always the same sky. Club der Kulturschaffenden, Berlin, (catalog)
  • 1990: PPS Galerie, Hamburg, (with Ute Mahler)
  • 1991: Center Régional de la Photographie, Douchy, France
  • 1992: Museum for Art and Cultural History Dortmund , (with Horst Wackerbarth), (catalog)
  • 1992: Almediterranea 92nd international project, College of Arts, Almería, Spain
  • 1995: Surprised Reality Perspectives, Galerie Weinberg Hildesheim
  • 1997: once upon a time. State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH, Potsdam
  • 1998: Angels in the City. Galerie le Manège, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
  • 2000: Show me your dearest good. Museum Berlin-Kreuzberg, Berlin
  • 2000: Yva, Bergemann, McGrew. Postfuhramt, Berlin
  • 2003: Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2004: Argus Gallery, Berlin
  • 2004: Finissage, farewell to Schiffbauerdamm, apartment Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
  • 2006: Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg, (with Arno Fischer)
  • 2006: Akademie der Künste, Berlin, (catalog)
  • 2007: Sibylle Bergemann. Fading memory. Museum of Photography (Braunschweig)
  • Since 2009: Sibylle Bergemann. Photographs. worldwide touring exhibition of the Institute for Foreign Relations e. V. (ifa)
    • Premiere at the Academy of Arts of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
    • after 2010:
      • Le Manège Gallery, Dakar, Senegal
      • Dum umeni / House of Art, Brno (Brno), Czech Republic
      • Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
    • afterwards 2011:
      • Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
      • Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, Nanjing, China
      • Goethe-Institut Hanoi, Vietnam
    • afterwards 2012:
      • Singapore 2902 Art Gallery, Singapore
      • Sydney College of the Arts SCA / Sydney Academy of Fine Arts SCA, Australia
      • Wairarapa Museum and Art Gallery, Masterton, New Zealand
    • afterwards 2013:
      • Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia
      • MAP-Publika (White Box), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
      • Art Gallery of Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
      • Villa Audi, Beirut, Lebanon
    • afterwards 2014:
      • State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
      • ifa gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
      • Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
    • then 2015:
      • Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai, India
      • National Gallery of Modern Art NGMA, New Delhi, India
    • afterwards 2016:
      • Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow, UK
    • after 2017:
      • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico
      • Centro Cultural Bam and Galería Regia, Monterrey, Mexico
    • after that in 2019:
      • Institut français de Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
      • Pisztori Palace, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
  • 2011: Leonhardi Museum , Dresden
  • 2011: Polaroids. C / O Berlin , Berlin
  • 2011 (–2012): A dream of theater - Sibylle Bergemann and the RambaZamba theater , Willy-Brandt-Haus , Berlin
  • 2015: Sibylle Bergemann , Osmos Address, New York
  • 2017: The Edge of the World. Sibylle Bergemann in Dialog , Kicken Berlin, Germany
  • 2017: Sibylle Bergemann. A retrospective exhibition , Reinbeckhallen, Berlin, Germany
  • 2017: women. And in color. , Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010: Eros and Stasi. East German Photography Collection Gabriele Koenig. Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen
  • 2016: New beginnings - pictures from Germany. Photographs from the Fricke Collection , Willy Brandt House, Berlin
  • 2016: Berlin, Raum, Radar , Neue West, Berlin, curated by Nadine Barth
  • 2016: Gegenstimmen , Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, curated by Eugen Blume and Christoph Tannert
  • 2017: SIBYLLE. The exhibition , Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock

Scholarships

  • 1995: Grant from the Körber Foundation , Hamburg
  • 1997: Artist grant from the Senate Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin

Works in public and private collections (selection)

  • Art Collection Deutsche Börse
  • Aktion Mensch, Bonn
  • Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
  • Brandenburg art collections, Cottbus
  • Center regional de la Photography nord Pas-de-Calais, Douchy
  • German Bundestag, Berlin
  • German Historical Museum, Berlin
  • DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main
  • Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig
  • GAFF, Gallery for Photography, Rotenburg / Wümme
  • Institute for Foreign Relations V. (ifa)
  • JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
  • State of Brandenburg Lotto GmbH , Potsdam
  • Museum of Art and History, Dortmund
  • Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne
  • State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle / Saale
  • Collection FC Gundlach, Hamburg
  • Joshua P. Smith Collection, Washington

Publications (selection)

as an author

as an illustrator

  • Klaus Walter : Berlin, capital of the GDR. A travel seducer . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1980.
  • Irene Runge : Heavenly Hell Manhattan . 2nd Edition. Buchverlag der Morgen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-371-00019-2 .
  • Irene Runge: You shouldn't always say Holland. A sketchbook. Book publisher der Morgen, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-371-00136-9 .

Works

  • Short biography about:  Bergemann, Sibylle . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Boris Friedewald : Sibylle Bergemann . In: Boris Friedewald: Masters of Light: Great Women Photographers from Two Centuries . Prestel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7913-4673-1 , pp. 38–41.
  • Martin Schieder: Affirmation and Difference. The "Documentation of the Origin of the Marx-Engels Monument" by Sibylle Bergemann, in: Sigrid Hofer and Martin Schieder (eds.): Photographing in the GDR, Dresden 2014, pp. 68-88 (series of publications by the Working Group on Art in the GDR, Vol. 2).
  • Frieda von Wild, Jonas Ludwig Walter (eds.): Sibylle Bergemann and the RambaZamba theater . Photographs. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942449-45-8 .
  • Frieda von Wild, Lily von Wild (eds.): Sibylle Bergemann. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-868287-43-1 .

Obituaries

Movie

  • My life - the photographer Sibylle Bergemann. Documentary, Germany, 2010, 43 min., Script: Maria Wischnewski, director: Sabine Michel, production: It Works! Media, ZDF , Arte , first broadcast: arte, January 16, 2011, 4:30 p.m., summary of the AdK .

Web links

Commons : Sibylle Bergemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nadine Barth: Defiant Graces. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 4, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c Birgit Walter: Farewell to the Schiffbauerdamm. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 15, 2004.
  3. ^ Sibylle Bergemann: Finissage. Farewell to the Schiffbauerdamm. Apartment Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin
  4. ↑ Bergemann in: My Life - The Photographer Sibylle Bergemann. ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. arte , January 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  5. ↑ Anke Schipp: Beauties behind the Berlin Wall. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , November 3, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Bergemann, Sibylle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2010
Place of death Berlin