Simone Nieweg

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Simone Nieweg (* 1962 in Bielefeld ) is a German photographer from the Düsseldorf School of Photography .

life and work

Simone Nieweg studied photography with Bernd Becher from 1984 to 1990 at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf . She completed her studies as his master class student. She belongs to the second generation of Becher students.

Simone Nieweg photographs nature. Her motifs appear calm and rural: arable land, meadows, allotments, grain fields, vegetable patches - there are also pumpkins, savoy cabbage and turnips. Garden fences and garden sheds also occur. You don't find people in their photographs.

"Everything in Simone Nieweg's photographs seems known and familiar from multiple encounters. Nevertheless, things shine in a special presence that is otherwise alien to us. Because by re-adjusting the view of the visible world, the constant flow of known phenomena is suddenly stopped and transferred to a different order that frees him from the patterns of a routine, solely identifying perception. " Heinz Liesbrock

Simone Nieweg lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017: Galerie m, Bochum
  • 2016: Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • 2012: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat , Bottrop
  • 2008: Luisotti Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
  • 2006: Kunstverein Recklinghausen
  • 2004: National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Great Britain
  • 2003: Siegerland Museum, Siegen; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven , Wilhelmshaven
  • 2002: Margarete Roeder gallery, New York
  • 2002: Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Suermondt Ludwig Museum , Aachen; Siegerland Museum, Siegen
  • 2001: Gallery of the City of Wels, Austria; Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2000: Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Detmold Castle; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 1999: Showroom Lothar Schirmer / Mosel, Munich; Gallery T19, Vienna, Austria
  • 1996: Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster
  • 1991: Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 1990: Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf

Publications

  • Simone Nieweg: The forest, the trees, the light. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-829607-50-6
  • Simone Nieweg: Landscapes and Garden Pieces. Book accompanying the exhibition in the Huis Marseille, Amsterdam. Munich 2002, ISBN 978-3-829600-40-8
  • Simone Nieweg: Human nature. Book accompanying the exhibition Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop. Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-829605-83-0
  • Simone Nieweg: Grabeland. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, 2001.
  • Simone Nieweg: Fields and Gardens. Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 1996, ISBN 3-925047-37-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Liesbrock: Lyrical documentation. Simone Nieweg's Gardens and Landscapes . In: Simone Nieweg Nature of People . Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8296-0583-0 , p. 15 .
personal data
SURNAME Nieweg, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer from the Düsseldorf School of Photography
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld