Katharina Sieverding
(German, born 1944)
Biography
Katharina Sieverding is a contemporary Czech-born German photographer whose surrealist work explores of the role of the individual in society. Her large-scale portraits are often tinted red or vibrant blue, creating a visually bold and graphic aesthetic that subtly alludes to the conceptual nature of her work. She has also explored the relationship of film and serial installations of her photographs to further complicate her practice. In one of her best-known pieces, Untitled (Ultramarine) (1993), Sieverding presents a group of eight self-portraits in an ambitious multimedia installation that challenges her audience and the traditional role of the gaze in art. Born on 1944 in Prague, Czech Republic, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where she studied stage design and sculpture under famed Conceptual artist Joseph Beuys with fellow student Blinky Palermo. Since beginning to exhibit her work, she has been featured in numerous documenta exhibitions as well as in solo shows at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the ICA in Boston, and the Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, among others. Today, Sieverding’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Kunstmuseum Bonn, the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern. Sieverding lives and works between Berlin and Düsseldorf, Germany.
Katharina Sieverding Artworks
.jpg "PROJECTED DATA IMAGES (RED), 2016")
.jpg "PROJECTED DATA IMAGES (BLUE), 2016")
.jpg "Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen, SDO/NASA,..., 2011")
.jpg "O.T. (Blau), 1990")
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