BORN

1958 Radebeul, Dresden

EDUCATION/TEACHING

2003 Scholarship to the German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome
1993-98 Assistant Lecturer at the HGB, Leigzig
1993 Travel Scholarship to Great Britain from the DAAD
1991 Post Graduate with distinction at the HGB, Leipzig
1990 Scholarship at the University of Essen from the DAAD (German
Academic Exchange Service)
1988 Degree in Photography, Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2008 Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
2006 Ludwig Forum Fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2006 Studio d'Arte Contemporanea Pino Casagrande, Rome
2006 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Kunstverein, Heilbronn
2005 Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg
2003 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen
2003 Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
2002 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main
2002 Stadtische Galerie, Ravensburg
2002 Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
2002 Kunsthalle Bremen
2001 Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam (with Edwin Zwakman)
2001 Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (three person exhibition with
Miriam Backstrom and Edwin Zwakman)
2000 Stadtische Galerie, Wolfsburg (catalogue)
2000 Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
2000 Oldenburger Kunstverein
2000 Rocket Gallery, London
1999 Galerie Wilma Toksdorf, Frankfurt am Main
1999 Goethe-Institut, London, England
1998 Galerie Conde, Paris, France (catalogue)
1998 Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1998 Metal Union Gallery, Frankfurt (catalogue)
1997 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen (with Linda Troeller)
(catalogue)
1995 Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin, Germany (catalogue)
1995 Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1995 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
1990 Kulturhaus Berlin-Treptow, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 "Foto Kunst - Contemporary Photography for the Essl Colletion," Museum der Bidenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany
2007 "Fotografierte Landschaften," Museum der Bidenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany
2007 "Stichwort Gegenwart. Zwolf Kapitel der Sammlung Ludwig," Ludwig Form fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
2007 "Leerraume des Erzahlens - Die Sammlung der Provinzial," Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2006 "Much ado about nothing," 3 person exhibition with Matthias Hoch, Ilya Rabinovich and Edwin Zwakman, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
2006 "Picturing Eden," George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2006 "Made in Leigzig," Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien
2005 "21," Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
2004 "Out of Place," Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
2004 "Elettricita," Palazzo di Primavera, Terni
2004 "Yet Untitled - Die Smmlung Bernd F. Kunne," Det Kongelige Bibliothek, Copenhagen; Kunsthalle, Nurnberg
2003 "Raum, Zeit - Architektur in der Fotografie, Werke aus der Smmlung der DZ Bank," Oldenburger Kunstverein and
Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg
2003 "Couturier, de Gobert, Hoch, Voita, Welling," Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2002 "Wunschbilder - die Neuerwerbungen des Kunstfonds Sachsen," Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
2002 "East - Die Sammlung der Verbundnetz Gas AG," Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
2002 "Mode Accelere," L'espace VOX, Montreal, Canada
2001 "Trade," Fotomuseum Winterthur; Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
2001 "Sense of Space," Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen
2001 "Depicting Absence - Implying Presence," Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2001 "Blind Spot Exhibition," Massachusetts College of Art, Bosten, MA; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
2001 "Relations - Die Smmlung Loulakis, Frankfurt am Main," Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle/Saale
2000 "Sammlerstucke: Die Sammlung Kunne, Hannover," Kunstverein Langenhagen
2000 "Zeitgenossische Positionen der Architekturphotographie," Museum Ludwig, Koln
2000 "From here to there - Passagesways at Solitude, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2000 "daad: weltwarts," Kunstmuseum, Bonn
1999 "Fotografie - Positionen der 90er Jahre aus der Sammlung Kunne," Stadtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
1999 "Insight Out/Landschaft und Interieur als Themen Zeitgenossischer Photographie," Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria; Kunsthaus Hamburg; Kunsthaus Baselland, Switzerland (catalogue)
1999 "Die Farben Schwartz," Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
1999 "Galerie der Utopien," Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue)
1999 "The Pomise of Photography - Selections from the DG Bank Collection," P.S. 1, New York, NY
1998 "Space, Time and Architecture," Galerie Markus Richter, Potsdam
1998 "Global Fun - Kunst und Design von Mondrian, Gehry, Versace and Friends," Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen (catalogue)
1997 "Record - Six German Artists," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Distanz und Domizil - Fotografie der Gegenwart," Kunsthaus, Dresden (catalogue)
1997 "Lust und Last - Leipziger Kunst seit 1945," Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nurnberg; Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig (catalogue)
1996 "Kunst-Speiche," Speicher, Weimar
1996 "Kunst-Speiche," Speicher Weimar
1996 "unikumok," Ernst Muzeum Budapest, Hungary (catalogue)
1995 "Werner Mantz Price for Photography," The Netherlands Photomuseum
Sittard, Netherlands (catalogues)
1995 Ludwig Forum fur International Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1994 "Meisterschuler," Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
1994 "Deutsche Kunst mit Photographie - Die 90er Jahre," Architekturmuseum Frankfurt/Main, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
1993 "Leipziger Schule - Fotografie," Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
1992 "Murs & Murmurs," Hotel de Ville, Lyon, France
1992 "Zustandsberichte - Deutsche Fotogragie der 50er bis 80er in Ost und Wes," Institut fur Aulandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Berlin (catalogue)
1992 "Aenne Biermann Preis fur Deutsche Gegenwartsfotografie," Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Gera (catalogue)
1991 Vor der Wende, Museum Ludwig Köln
1990 "Leipziger Schule," Saatliche Kunstalle Berlin, Stadtische Galerie Scholss Oberhausen, Kunstverein Hannover (catalogue)
1990 "Keine Gewalt - Leipzig, Eine Deutsche Revolution," Stadtische Sammlung Duisburg-Rheinhausen (catalogue)
1990 "Junge Fotografie aus der DDR," Galerie Praterinsel, Munchen, Germany (catalgue)
1990 Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
1990 "Bilder vom Neuen Deutschland," Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany (catalogue)
1990 "Das Schone ist der Glanz des Wahren," Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle/Saale (catalogue)
1990 "Wegzeichen - Zeitzeichen," Landesgirokasse Stuttgart; Neues Rathaus Leipzig, Germany (catalogue)
1989 "Leipziger Schule," Hochschule fur Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig (catalogue)
1989 "Photography in the GDR Today," National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Great Britian

COLLECTIONS

Sammlung Kunne, Hannover
Kunsthalle, Bremen
Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Museum Ludwig, Koln
Stadtishe Galerie, Wolfsburg
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg/Wien
KPN Collectie Fotografie, Amsterdam
DZ-Bank Frankfurt a.M.
Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Kunstfondes die Freistaates Sachsen, Dresden
Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

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