Katharina Sieverding in Austria : 1964-2008, exh. cat., Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (9 August – 20 September 2008), Salzburg, Galerie Fotohof, 2008
→Katharina Sieverding, mal d’archive, exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (10 May – 21 September 2014), Berlin, Distanz, 2014
→Katharina Sieverding, Berlin, Akademie der Künste, 2017
Katharina Sieverding, 1967-1997, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 20 December 1997 – 1 March 1998
→Katharina Sieverding: Close Up, MoMA PS1, New York, 24 October 2004 – 23 January 2005
→Katharina Sieverding. Art and Capital. From 1967 to 2017, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 11 March – 16 July 2017
German photographer and filmmaker.
Katharina Sieverding studied sculpture with Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the 1960s. She continued her studies in the United States, China and the USSR. Her work is focused on identity, the individual in society, political events, natural phenomena and biological processes. Her monumental photographs (up to 6 metres high) play on the enlargement and multiplication of images, contrast, superimposing, solarisation and intensities of light. For the artist, the essence of images is not born through the camera but rather in the mind thanks to “optical possibilities formed by the mind”. In the mid-1970s she created large photographic canvases based on photographs in the press and television images, mixing visuals and texts around themes of female identity and political events from German and American history. Her favourite subject nevertheless remains the self-portrait, which she sees as a means of conveying an artistic vision of the world.