| 1971 | born in Berlin |
| 1990 - 1993 | vocational training as photographer, Free University Berlin |
| 1994 - 1999 | studies of art photography and media art, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |
| 1995 | founding of the Office for Image Affairs with Elisabeth Neudörfl |
| 2000 -2004 | Research and Teaching Assistant in the research project Visual Competence in the Media Age State Academy of Visual Arts Stuttgart |
| 2003 - 2007 | doctorate in art history, State Academy of Visual Arts Stuttgart Title of dissertation thesis: Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography |
| 2007 - 2010 | adjunct professor for photography and art theory: State Academy of Visual Arts Stuttgart, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, F+F School for Arts and Mediadesign Zurich |
| 2009 - 2010 | substitute professor for photography, Merz-Academy Stuttgart |
| since 10|2010 | professor for photography, Braunschweig University of Art |
| lives in Cologne and Braunschweig |
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| Solo Exhibitions (selection) | |
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| 2011 | undocumented, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| 2010 | Contact Zones, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart *C (catalogue) |
| 2009 | Undetermined Terrain, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| 2008 | Contact Zone, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| 2003 | Code Orange, GEDOK-Galerie, Stuttgart |
| Fringes of Utopia, Büro Spors, Berlin |
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| 2002 | been here before, Oberwelt, Stuttgart |
| 1999 | objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear, Kunstverein Leipzig |
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| Group Exhibitions (selection) | |
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| 2011 | in transit, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| The Best of All Possible Worlds, Carpe Diem Art & Research, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| 2010 | Diamonds & Pearls, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| Interior Views, Gallery of the International Culture Centre Krakow, Poland; Goethe-Institute Ankara, Turkey *C (catalogue) |
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| 2009 | Under Cover I - special editions in books, boxes & rolls, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin |
| Art Dialogue: United in Motion, Wuhan, China *C |
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| Interior Views, Goethe-Institutes Santa Cruz, Sucre, La Paz: Bolivia; San Juan, Mendoza, Cordoba: Argentina *C |
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| Get your Piece of the Cake, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
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| 2008 | Heterotopien des Alltags. Junge Berliner Künstler sehen Raum, Videoscreening im Scala, Berlin |
| 1:1, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin (with Ellen Bornkessel) |
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| Interior Views, Institut Pierre Werner, Luxemburg; Goethe-Institute Washington DC, USA; Goethe-Institute Curitiba, Brasil; Goethe-Institute Brasilia, Brasi *C |
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| 2007 | Die beste aller möglichen Welten, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
| Innenansichten, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium; Goethe-Institute Copenhagen, Denmark; Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico *C |
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| They Rule the Valley, Loris - gallery for contemporary art, Berlin |
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| 2006 | Artists' Editions 2005/2006, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart |
| 2005 | 2005 Pingyao International Photography Show, Pingyao, China *C |
| Trial of Power, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin *C |
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| Dispersed Moments of Concentration. Urban and Digital Spaces, Hartware Medienkunstverein, Dortmund *C |
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| Expanded Media, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart |
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| 2004 | Research - discovered! Image Archives of the Invisibile, International Photography Triennial Esslingen *C |
| 2002 | not far away from reality, Hartware Mediaartspace, Dortmund *C |
| Trade. Commodities, Communication, and Consciousness in World Trade Today, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands *C |
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| 2001 | Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland *C |
| new ideas - old tricks, Hartware Mediaartspace, Dortmund *C |
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| 2000 | Sublime, Duende, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Im Strom der City, Mülheimer Medien Meile, Mülheim/Ruhr *C |
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| Spring Opening, suburbia chic, Cologne |
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| Positions, Attitudes, Actions, International Foto-Biennial Rotterdam, The Netherlands *C |
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| 1999 | Arte & Communicazione '99. Forum Internazionale della TV, dell'Audiovisivo e dell'Editoria multimediale di qualità, Musei D'Arte Contemporanea, Rom |
| Artist Books, Photography Triennial Hamburg, Künstlerhaus Hamburg |
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| 1998 | Focus 98, Zeche Zollern, Dortmund |
| sub fiction, 3. Werkleitz Biennial, Saxony-Anhalt *C |
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| 1997 | Labland, medialab of Eigen+Art Gallery, Leipzig *C |
| 1996 | Videonale, Bonn *C |
| European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück *C |
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| Grants and Awards (selection) | |
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| 2009 | acknowledgement at the Deubner-Preis für aktuelle kunsthistorische Forschung |
| project grant by the Kunststiftung NRW |
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| 2008 | Mentoring-Program of the University of Fine Arts (UdK) Berlin |
| 2007 | Mathilde-Planck art-academy teaching program, Baden-Württemberg |
| 2006 | grant for a 3-months residency in Japan, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo |
| 2005 - 2007 | graduate student grant, State Academy of Visuals Arts, Stuttgart |
| 2005 | sponsorship for the participation in the exhibition Trial of Power (Berlin), Endowment for the Arts Northrhine-Westfalia |
| 2003 | Fulbright-grant for a Visual Culture Tertiary, Amherst College, USA |
| 2001 | grant for a media artist from Northrhine-Westfalia, Ministry of Cultural Affairs NRW |
| 2000 | acknowledgement at the International Bauhaus Award 2000 Bauhaus Dessau |
| 1998 | 1. prize: kurz + schön competition of the West German Broadcast Station and the Academy of Media Art, Cologne
(cooperation with Caroline Hake) |
| 1997 | publication grant of the Institute for Bookart Leipzig for the artist book PLAN
(cooperation with Elisabeth Neudörfl) |
| 3. prize: German Studies Award of the Körber-Foundation |
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| 1993 | submission to the Begabtenförderung of the Federal Ministry for Education |
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| Publications (selection) | |
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| 2011 | Contact Zones, edited by Hans D. Christ/Iris Dressler, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Ostfildern 2011, Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| 2010 | Maskierung und Demaskierung von Macht. Paul Grahams fotografische Sicht auf Japan, in: Kritische Berichte 2/2010, 63-72: The Phoenix of Hiroshima. Entwürfe einer neuen Identität im Bild |
| 2008 | Das Fremde sehen. Der europäische Blick auf Japan in der künstlerischen Dokumentarfotografie, Bielefeld 2008, transcript Verlag |
| Dokumentarfotografie. Zur Entwicklung eines Begriffs, in: Rundbrief Fotografie, Vol. 15 (2008), No. 4 [N.F. 60], 14-17. |
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| EP/2006/K., Edition des Büro für Bildangelegenheiten, Berlin 2008 |
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| Robert Frank: Die Amerikaner, on: http://www.booksports.de |
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| Judith Joy Ross: Living with War, on: http://www.booksports.de |
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| Helen Levitt: Fotografien von 1937 - 1991, on: http://www.booksports.de |
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| 2007 | Elisabeth Neudörfl: Super Pussy Bangkok, on: http://www.booksports.de |
| Constructing the World. Documentary Photography in Artistic Use, in: R. Adelmann; A. Fahr e.a. (ed.) Visual Culture Revisited. German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s), Köln 2007, Herbert von Halem Verlag |
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| Dorothea Lange: Impounded, on: http://www.booksports.de |
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| Paul Graham: American Night, on: http://www.booksports.de |
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| 2004 | Vom Grenzraum zur Grenzüberschreitung. Grenzen und Globalisierung im künstlerischen Diskurs, in: H.D. Huber, B. Lockemann, M. Scheibel, Visuelle Netze. Wissensräume in der Kunst, Ostfildern/Ruit 2004, Hatje Cantz Verlag |
| Netzkunst als Konzeptkunst, in: H.D. Huber, B. Lockemann, M. Scheibel, Visuelle Netze. Wissensräume in der Kunst, Ostfildern/Ruit 2004, Hatje Cantz Verlag |
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| 2002 | Sammeln: Erinnern - Erneuern - Transformieren, Werkstatt Wort Bd. 2, Christoph Türcke (Hg.), Leipzig 2002, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst |
| Jenseits der Netzkunst, in: H.D. Huber, B. Lockemann, M. Scheibel (Hg.), Bild Medien Wissen, München 2002, kopaed Verlag |
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| 2000 | objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear, in: K. Sachs-Hombach und K. Rehkämper (Hg.), Vom Realismus der Bilder, Magdeburg 2000, Scriptum Verlag |
| 1999 | Die internationale Stadt, in: Edit. Papier für neue Texte, Nr. 21 |
| künstlich, vermutlich, Katalog des gleichnamigen Projekts, Leipzig 1999 |
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| PLAN, (artist book cooperation with Elisabeth Neudörfl), edited by the Institute for
Bookart Leipzig 1999 |
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| 1996 | Revolution No. 3, in: Camera Austria No. 54 |
| since 1996 | various contributions (image and text) in numerous exhibition catalogues (cf. exhibitions marked with *C) |
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| Lectures (selection) | |
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| 2010 | Undetermined Terrain. The Urban Experience Between Europe and Asia, International Conference: Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience, Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich |
| Seeing the Other, the Photographic View on Japan, lecture at the 3. International Photobook Festival Kassel, Germany |
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| Begegnungen in der Kontaktzone, lecture at the Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart |
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| 2009 | Seeing the Other. Japan from European Photographers' Perspective, lecture within the series ›Japanische Häppchen‹, Academy of Visual Arts Stuttgart, Germany |
| Photographing Japan. European Photographers and their Photographic Conception of Japan, lecture within the cluster of excellence Europe - Asia, ›Pictorial Flows. Visuality and Mediality in Global Context‹, Heidelberg University, Germany |
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| Photographing the Other. A European View on Japan, lecture within the research project ›Memoria Cultural e Identidades Fronterizas. Entre la Construcción Narrativa y el Giro Icónico‹, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Instituto de Filosofía, Madrid, Spanien |
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| Bettina Lockemann: Documentary Projects, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
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| Exploring Territories, Art Space PIST, Istanbul, Turkey |
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| 2008 | Encounters Within the Contact Zone. European Influences in Japan in the photography project »Contact Zone«, lecture within the lecture series ›Positions of Photography‹, F+F Schule für Kunst und Mediendesign Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2007 | Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography, lecture within the course of lectures ›Japanese Photography‹, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in cooperation with the Institute of Japanology, Leipzig University, Germany |
| 2006 | Seeing the Other. The European View on Japan in Contemporary Artistic Documentary Photography, lecture within the ›History & Humanities Study Group‹, German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo, Japan |
| 2005 | The World is not Enough, lecture within the exhibition ›Trial of Power‹, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany |
| Constructing the World. Documentary Photography in Artistic Practice, lecture at the congress ›Visual Culture Revisited. German and American Perspectives on Visual Culture(s)‹, JFK-Forum Berlin, Germany |
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| 2003 | Seeing the Other. The View on Japan in Paul Graham's Artist Book »Empty Heaven«, lecture at the congress ›Photography and Book II‹, Department of Art History, Leipzig University, Germany |
| 2001 | Goodbye to the Wild West. Reflections on net.art at the point of institutionalization, lecture at the congress ›art.net.dortmund under construction‹, Hartware Medienkunstverein, Dortmund, Germany |
| 2000 | The International City, lecture at the symposium ›Event City‹, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany |
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