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Deutschland wird deutscher XLI/92, 1992
Pigment transfer on metal, steel frame
300 x 400 cm
© Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst 2024 | | | | | | | November 1, 2024 – March 23, 2025 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 31 October, 2024, 7 pm; Free entry | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Katharina Sieverding
Kontinentalkern I, XXIV-1/83, 1983
Color photograph, acrylic, steel frame,
400 x 750 cm
© Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst 2024 | | | | | | | The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is honoring the work of the internationally renowned Düsseldorf-based photographer Katharina Sieverding (b. 1941 in Prague) with a major survey exhibition. The multiple award-winning artist became famous for her iconic close-ups of her own face and her large-format photographs, which she was one of the first to introduce to the art world in the mid-1970s. | | | | | | | | | Katharina Sieverding
Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen III/196 07 A, 1973
Color photograph, acrylic, steel frame,
190 x 125 cm
© Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst 2024 | | | | | | With a strong background in theater studies, she records, dissects, and diagnoses historical and contemporary issues and social wounds, making gender boundaries fluid and questioning the power and abuse of images. Her monumental works, which can be categorized as performance, body art, and experimental film, have added a new dimension to photography. In the context of her interdisciplinary thinking and work, she understands photography as a malleable and transformable material.
To this day, Katharina Sieverding’s work takes a political stance: on National Socialism and the question of German identity against the backdrop of anti-democratic forces, but also on global issues. Her works deal with the causes and consequences of wars and their complex constellations of power and violence, as well as with mankind’s destructive exploitation of planet Earth. Even when her works refer directly to current events, they seem timelessly contemporary. | | | | | | | | | Katharina Sieverding
Grossfoto IX/77, THE GREAT WHITE WAY GOES BLACK, 1977
Color photograph, acrylic, steel frame
300 x 500 cm
© Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Foto © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst 2024 | | | | | | At K21, in addition to key works from the artist’s nearly sixty-year career, her extensive archive will also be included in the exhibition for the first time as an open space for discourse.
Curator: Isabelle Malz | | | | | | | | | Katharina Sieverding
Maton I/1A, 1969-1972
Black and white photograph
29,7 x 21 cm
© Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2024
Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst 2024 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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