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About Sigrid Ehemann
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Sigrid Ehemann is a photo- and text-based maker of sculptures and installations, who lives and works in Germany. During the final years of a long career teaching young adults and designing and managing art projects as experimental learning environments, she started showing her photography online under an alias. This turned out to be the first step towards reinventing herself. Soon she began craving more feedback. and this, in turn, led to setting up her first solo exhibition in her own apartment. To hone her craft, she has been a participant in portfolio reviews and workshops on fine art photography and photobooks in Salzburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Arles, and Istanbul, led by Katharina Sieverding amongst others. She has taken part in a masterclass in Tokyo led by German artist duo Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber aka Boehm Kobayashi.
During quite a few years her photographs and photobooks have travelled to international festivals such as the KOLGA Photo Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Photobook Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, the Athens Photo Festival, Greece, and many more. Her self-published photobooks have been shortlisted for Best Photobook Dummy Award at the prestigious Kassel PhotoBook Festival in Germany, and for the Premio Internacional at the Festival de Libros de Fotografía y Afines, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are part of the archives of L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France, The Photobookshow, Brighton, UK, the Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece, the Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, PHOTOIRELAND, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland, Printed Matter, New York City, New York, and Felifa, Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of her latest books, Bruno Is a Celebrity, has been reviewed for a Photo Editor and GUP Magazine. In spring 2018, Pussy Magazine #1, #2, #3, a spoof fashion magazine offering "Style tips for the invisible woman", came out and has been reviewed favourably as well.
Always busy with several projects at the same time, she is currently thinking about re-thinking Bruno, the Celebrity President, her personal take on the terrible thought-to-be-past success story in the White House that kept so many of us intrigued during four long years after Obama; on Fashion Porn for Real Contemporaries, a new variety of her Portraits in Pink, with an emphasis on how fashion, gender politics and questions of self and identity are interlinked and can be treated in her preferred mode of surreal comedy, and last but not least on the bliss of sakura in black and white, a comprehensive and ongoing multimedia work on the subject of cherry blossom viewing in Japan, which grew out of her love of immersing herself in the modern city.
She has degrees in English, American and French language and literature from the University of Bonn, Germany, and her love of language and text is often reflected in her art. As of today, apart from her own art making in the shape of images, texts and books, her range of activities include organising and curating exhibitions for friends and colleagues at a renowned artists' association as well - and, since she likes challenges of all sorts, she has also started to immerse herself in a course that will hopefully reward her with a degree in the fine arts, too.
During quite a few years her photographs and photobooks have travelled to international festivals such as the KOLGA Photo Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Photobook Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, the Athens Photo Festival, Greece, and many more. Her self-published photobooks have been shortlisted for Best Photobook Dummy Award at the prestigious Kassel PhotoBook Festival in Germany, and for the Premio Internacional at the Festival de Libros de Fotografía y Afines, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They are part of the archives of L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France, The Photobookshow, Brighton, UK, the Athens Photo Festival, Athens, Greece, the Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, PHOTOIRELAND, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland, Printed Matter, New York City, New York, and Felifa, Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of her latest books, Bruno Is a Celebrity, has been reviewed for a Photo Editor and GUP Magazine. In spring 2018, Pussy Magazine #1, #2, #3, a spoof fashion magazine offering "Style tips for the invisible woman", came out and has been reviewed favourably as well.
Always busy with several projects at the same time, she is currently thinking about re-thinking Bruno, the Celebrity President, her personal take on the terrible thought-to-be-past success story in the White House that kept so many of us intrigued during four long years after Obama; on Fashion Porn for Real Contemporaries, a new variety of her Portraits in Pink, with an emphasis on how fashion, gender politics and questions of self and identity are interlinked and can be treated in her preferred mode of surreal comedy, and last but not least on the bliss of sakura in black and white, a comprehensive and ongoing multimedia work on the subject of cherry blossom viewing in Japan, which grew out of her love of immersing herself in the modern city.
She has degrees in English, American and French language and literature from the University of Bonn, Germany, and her love of language and text is often reflected in her art. As of today, apart from her own art making in the shape of images, texts and books, her range of activities include organising and curating exhibitions for friends and colleagues at a renowned artists' association as well - and, since she likes challenges of all sorts, she has also started to immerse herself in a course that will hopefully reward her with a degree in the fine arts, too.
Solo Shows
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2020
2019 2017 2016 2011 |
Tokyo. Eine fotografische Annäherung
EKO-Haus e.V. / Haus der japanischen Kultur, Düsseldorf (postponed due to COVID-19) Think Pink. Photography & Books Café Grenzenlos, Düsseldorf, in parallel with Photo Weekend Düsseldorf Tokyo Kyoto Foyer der VHS Düsseldorf, Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz 1 Think Pink. Porträt einer Abteilung Foyer der VHS Düsseldorf, Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz 1 VHS-HAUS in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort Sebald - ZigsHomeGallery, Düsseldorf mysteries - photographs 2004-2011 Kunstbunker Köln-Flittard, Cologne |
Group Shows
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2024
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 |
BLAU
BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf (forthcoming) Winterkunst 2024 Annual members' show BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Das kleine Format: Countdown Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf Escape Room ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, DE Kunstpunkte 2024 Open Studios in Düsseldorf Botanica BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Der Feine Strich BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf The Biennial Project Biennial 2024 Venice, IT / Boston, Mass., USA In Praise of Birds World Book Night 2024 Bower Ashton Library, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), Hong Kong Leporellos & genähte Zeichnung Impro97, Düsseldorf PARALLAX Art Fair Kensington Town Hall, London, UK Das kleine Wunder plan. d. produzentengalerie e. V., Düsseldorf Das kleine Format: Botanik Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf PARALLEL BBK-Kunstforum Düsseldorf zu Gast beim / invited to Kunstverein Duisburg e.V., Duisburg, DE byob x ENTER ENTER - A Space for Books, Amsterdam, NL Artists' Book Day! / Artists' Books live Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf ART in the PARK Open Air Art Show, Volksgarten, Düsseldorf Kunstpunkte 2023 Open Studios in Düsseldorf PARALLAX Art Fair Kensington Town Hall, London, UK We Remember World Book Night 2023 Bower Ashton Library, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), Hong Kong Postcards for Perec International mail art project as a tribute to Georges Perec Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK Das kleine Format: Wetter Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf Postcards for Perec International mail art project as a tribute to Georges Perec Printmaking Today Magazine, Winter 2022 (article on the project) Collins Memorial Library of the University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA Festival of Architecture and Design, Florya, Istanbul, TR Kunstpunkte 2022 Open Studios in Düsseldorf First Book Night Positionen künstlerischer Buch- und Textproduktion BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf The Biennial Project Biennial 2022 Venice, IT / Boston, Mass., USA Ghosts in the Machine World Book Night The Library of Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI), Hong Kong Bower Ashton Library, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK GEFALTET GESCHNITTEN GEZEICHNET GEMALT GESCHRIEBEN GEHÄNGT GEBUNDEN GEBKLEBT GEFILMT Positionen künstlerischer Buch- und Textproduktion VBK - Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin Winterkunst 2021 Annual members' show BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Das kleine Format: Transparenz Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf Kunstpunkte 2021 in parallel with BBK5010, anniversary show at BBK-Kunstforum e.V., Düsseldorf Künstlerinnenfest - Starke Frauen in Kunst und Kultur/ Female Artists' Festival - Powerful Women in Art and Culture Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, in cooperation with Frauenkulturbüro NRW Transitions 2021 2nd Annual Members's Show Blue Sky Gallery / Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, USA magic landscapes I BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Postcards for Perec International mail art project as a tribute to Georges Perec The Street Gallery at the Locksbrook Campus of Bath Spa University (19/01/2022 - 03/02/2023) Bower Ashton Library, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Home Is... Collaborative Book Project 30 international artists, invited by Julia Borissova, St Petersburg, Russia International mail art project for World Book Night 2021 World Book Night, The Herbarium Bower Ashton Library , University of the West of England, Bristol, UK Winterkunst 2020 Members' First Online Exhibition on Instagram BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Das kleine Format: Arglos Gutes - Private und kollektive Gegenwelten / Private and collective alternate ways and worlds Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf Kunstpunkte 2020 offene Ateliers / open studios in Düsseldorf Visualizing 2020 Blue Sky Gallery / Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, USA https://www.blueskygallery.org/visualizing-2020-blue-sky-online-member-show Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? International mail art project for World Book Night 2020 Bower Ashton Library, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK Die Neuen / New Members BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf Winterkunst 2019 BBK-Kunstforum e.V. Düsseldorf UNFILTERED: Portfolio Walk Fotofest Meeting Place Paris 2019 / Galerie VU', Paris, France Photobook Fair Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK Kunstpunkte 2019 offene Ateliers / open studios in Düsseldorf Artist's Book / Künstlerbuch Class led by Cameron Jamie International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria Photographer's Diary / Fotografisches Tagebuch Atelier Birgitta Thaysen, Düsseldorf (exhibition and catalogue) The Biennial Project Biennial at the Venice Biennale 2019, Venice, Italy Finalists Gallery Portraiture: Through the Lens Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR, USA (exhibition and catalogue) Postcard Salon 2019 Jarvis Dooney Gallery, Berlin (exhibition and artist talk) The Creative Portrait The Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, USA 16th Festival de Libros de Fotografía y Afines (Felifa) Arte x Arte Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina Finalist Premio Internacional Felifa Boston Biennial Five Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA, USA J Photo Book Show Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Photo Festival CPF18, Cork, Ireland The Curated Fridge Gallery Kayafas, The Flashpoint Festival, Boston, MA, USA The Photobook Exhibition, APhF:17 - Athens Photo Festival 2017, Benaki Museum, Pireos Annexe, Athens, Greece IED Madrid - Istituto Europeo di Design, Madrid, Spain Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark Sofia Art Book Fair, Sofia, Bulgaria ORGAN VIDA FESTIVAL, Zagreb, Croatia FotoLeggendo, Rome, Italy FOTOFESTIWAL, Lodz, Poland PHOTOIRELAND, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland 1. Photobookfest Moscow, Lumière Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia Second Istanbul Photobook Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 9. Fotobook Festival, Kassel, Germany I Photobook Show, The Brighton Studios, Brighton, England / Taiga Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Photobook Exhibition, APhF:16 - Athens Photo Festival 2016,
Benaki Museum, Pireos Annexe, Athens, Greece First Istanbul Photobook Festival, Mimar Sinan Üniversitesi, Fındıklı Kampüsü, Istanbul, Turkey (participating artist and self-publisher of photobooks) 2016 Photo Award #Memory_Archive Exhibition, Photobook Melbourne, Boyd School Studios, Melbourne, Australia (participating artist) Fotoistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey Photobook Week Aarhus, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark Book Fair, Göteborg, Sweden Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal Fotobok Festival, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway Kaunas Photo, Kaunas, Lithuania PHOTOIRELAND, The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland IED Master, Madrid, Spain FotoLeggendo, Rome, Italy 7. Fotobook Festival, Kassel, Germany Photobookshow, Athens Photo Festival 2015, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece Shortlisted KOLGA AWARD exhibition and annual catalogue, Tbilisi, Georgia Nominated for Best Photo of the year 2015 in the One Shot category |
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2014
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H Photobook Show
Doomed Gallery, London |
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2012
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Photography / Visual Culture Studies
Class led by Katharina Sieverding International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria |
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2011
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Drawing as Wish-Machine
Class led by Christoph Schäfer International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria |
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2009
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school is open
summer academy with nüans (artists' group) Cologne University, department of art education |
Online Projects / Public Galleries
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I Want Pink. The Perfect Manual to Sakura
Flickr Group / Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France Hair (17 Apr 2015) Who and What I Love (14 Feb 2015) My Favourite Photograph from 2014 (1 Jan 2015) Snow (25 Dec 2014) LENSCRATCH Tokyo_08.13 Flickr Group / Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France Can't Live Without It: Favourite Fashion Pieces
Favourite Bad Pictures The Photographers' Gallery, London |
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2007
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How we are - Photographing Britain. From 1840 to the present
Flickr Group / Tate Britain, London |
Workshops
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2012 to date
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Artist's Book / Künstlerbuch
Class led by Cameron Jamie, International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria Fotografisches Tagebuch / Photographer's Diary led by Birgitta Thaysen and Claudia van Koolwijk, Düsseldorf Tokyo Masterclass Photography In All ITS Glory led by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber, Tokyo (book dummy: I Want Pink) Istanbul led by Frederic Lezmi and Wolfgang Zurborn Lichtblick School, Istanbul / Cologne (catalogues) Killing Time in Paradise and So You Want To Make Better Photographs led by Harvey Benge, Auckland / Cologne The Theatre of Real Life led by Wolfgang Zurborn, Cologne (catalogue) The Photobook led by Markus Schaden, schaden.com, Cologne |
Bookworks, text works and audio objects
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2020 to date
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 |
Leporellos, inspired by and dedicated to Etel Adnan:
How to Build a Picture / Wie man ein Bild konstruiert The Golden Library Un petit musée pour Etel also inspired by Etel Adnan: Drawings, text drawings and codices on deckled paper Cannibalistic Love Poems in the shape of abstract dresses / drawings on paper: Die Roulade / The Beef Olive (dt./engl.) Die Schachtel / La scatola (dt./it.) Also: Die Currywurst, perspektivisch betrachtet (dt./engl./frz./it./span./türk.) 2 Leporellos inspired by Max Ernst: chez la plus belle / une visite chez le magicien au delà de la mémoire, II Photography, Typography and Book Design: Dancing Picture Magazine #1 Minna no Nihongo 22 colour photographs and additional text on 28 postcards in format A5. 3 copies in 3 different boxes. The Eyes of Salzburg 21 colour photographs and text on 24 photocopied pages in format A5. Minna no Nihongo Mixed media on 24 photocopied pages in format A4. Portrait of the Artist as a Photo Diary A series of 3 magazines (to be continued): Amsterdam Berlin. Accompanied by a booklet with 17 poems and 5 b/w photographs on transparent paper. Düsseldorf. Accompanied by a booklet with text excerpts and 7 colour photographs on transparent paper. The Alien Explorer's Diary. Notes for a Travel Report From a Strange Country Artist's booklet. Photography and text. Printed on transparent paper. den Mond betrachten. Artist's booklet. A poem in 17 photographs on 44 transparent pages. den Mond betrachten. Artist's booklet in leporello form. 3 unique copies. Photography and collage. Bruno, the Celebrity President Book dummy Pussy Magazine #1, #2, #3 Style Tips for the Invisible Woman A spoof fashion magazine Bruno Is a Celebrity Coco Chanel Meets Frank Gehry untitled_power_materials Ich ist ein Anderer art project documentaries Be My Portrait
Fully Integrated_Die Neue Deutsche Welle art project documentaries Think Pink Metropolis Carpe Diem art project documentaries I Want Pink. The Perfect Manual to Sakura Translucent City Second, revised edition of Istanbul, Translucent City Future Forms aint got no icon art project documentaries |
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Tokyo Kyoto
Istanbul, Translucent City Inner Space art project documentary |
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2013
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Reflections in an Alien's Eye.
With a short essay by Zigs Black |