Pola Sieverding (born 1981) is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media.[1]

Education

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Sieverding graduated in 2007 with an MFA from the Berlin University of the Arts where she studied under Stan Douglas,[2] Ellen Cantor, Dieter Appelt, Sabeth Buchmann, and Katja Diefenbach. In 2002, she attended the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in 2005 the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow.[3]

Work

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The artist's work questions traditional concepts of gender,[4] culture,[5] and normality; capturing both specific social spaces and the unique people who live in them. Sieverding's work primarily analyses the relationship between her subjects- individuals who range from women in traditional Islamic dress to drag queens,[6] performance actors[7] and the Berlin club scene-[8] to their bodies. In recent years the artist has added to her work the depiction of equally unique architecture which is portrayed as means of being a specific social space.[7] Continuously throughout the artist's work, materiality plays a significant role: be it elements of concrete and glass in Close to Concrete I and II, hair in To The Crowned And Conquering Child or textiles as in the photo series Text I-VI.[9] In cooperation with Orson Sieverding, the artist develops electronic soundscapes for her installations which when projected onto her protagonists transform into urban echoes.[9]

Grants

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Sieverding has won an art grant from the Senate of Berlin twice, in 2008 and 2014.[10] In 2011 Sieverding was invited as an artist in residence at the Meet Factory in Prague, the Maumaus in Lisbon, and as a visiting lecturer at the International Art Academy in Ramallah, Palestine[5] where she received an art grant from the Anna Lindh Foundation.[11] Today the artist resides and works in Berlin.[5]

Major solo exhibitions

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  • 2018/2019: "Bodies that matter", knustxkunz+, München
  • 2018: "Gustav Peichl - 15 Bauten zum 90sten", MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien[12]
  • 2016: "THE EPIC", NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen[13]
  • 2015: "ARENA", at Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin[14]
  • 2014: "GRANDS ENSEMBLES" at BOX21 Freiraum für Kultur, Berlin[15]
  • 2012: "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at BRAENNEN, Berlin[16]
  • 2012 "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE" at Galerie Kostka, Prague[17]
  • 2011: "CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon[18]
  • 2010: "Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[19]
  • 2010: "RHIZOMA" at TÄT, Berlin[20]
  • 2009/2010: "Figures of Affect" Friederike Hamann and Pola Sieverding, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin[21]
  • 2009: "Cadavre Exquis" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[22]

Major group exhibitions

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  • 2016: "Von den Strömen der Stadt", Museum Abteiberg, Mönhengladbach[23]
  • 2016: "The Self. Perception – Profession – Portrait", Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai kuratiert von Frank Wagner und Zelda Cheatle[24]
  • 2014: "LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2" at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin[25]
  • 2014: "Blended Generations" at 701 e.V., Düsseldorf 2014[26]
  • 2014: "The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar" at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles[27]
  • 2013: "BERLIN.STATUS [2]" at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin[9]
  • 2013: "040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst – Destroyed Images" at Frappant, Hamburg[28]
  • 2012: "Hyperrealz" at Bruno Glint, London[29]
  • 2011: "Hot Spot Berlin" at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin[30]
  • 2011: "Alive She Cried" curated by Reynold Reynolds at Galerie Zink, Berlin[31]
  • 2010: "Künstler der Galerie III" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[32]
  • 2010: "Six Days of New Media" at Linienstraße 127, Berlin[33]
  • 2010: "No more daughters and heroes" at Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul[4]
  • 2009: "Künstler der Galerie II" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[34]
  • 2007: "Hardcore Glamour" at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin[35]

Major collaborations and performances

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Publications

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  • 2018: THE EPIC, Hrsg. NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Verlag Hatje Cantz[38]
  • 2016: Berlin Raum Radar edited by Nadine Barth, Verlag Hatje Cantz
  • 2016: Dubai Photo Exhibition, edited by Zelda Cheatle
  • 2015: trail, edited by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Pola Sieverding, Jasper Kettner; Schriftenreihe des documenta Archivs. Verlag Spector Books, Leipzig[39]
  • 2015: History is a Warm Gun, edited by Britta Schmitz, n.b.k. Berlin, Verlag Walter König
  • 2015: ARENA, exhibition catalogue by Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin
  • 2014: LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, edited by Frank Wagner, nGbK, Berlin
  • 2013: Artists for Revival – Rehberger, Morris, Brandenburg, Sieverding, Bonvicini, Yalcindag, Schulze, Sweeny, Zipp, Nickolson, edited by Schiesser
  • 2013: Berlin.Status(2) – 50 Positionen junger Künstler und Künstlerinnen aus Berlin, edited by Sven Drühl, Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
  • 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20141219114212/http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Pola Sieverding at dOCUMENTA (13)
  • 2010: Never Mind About The Six Feet. Let's Talk About The Seven Inches, exhibition catalogue by Galeria Lena Brüning, Berlin
  • 2010: TEXT Revue, edited by Andrea van Dühren, Berlin
  • 2009: WOUND: Creative Culture Close Up, Pola Sieverding: Now Objectivity by Ken Pratt, London, UK, Fall Issue
  • 2008: Spex, Nr. 312, White Cube Ambition-Junge Berliner Künstler, Liebling Nr. 05, Special Issue
  • 2004: Klinik unter Palmen-Statements aus der Kunstakademie, in Texte zur Kunst "Erziehung" Issue 53

References

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  1. ^ "Art News", Pola Sieverding Vita
  2. ^ "DLD Conference". Pola Sieverding, 2011
  3. ^ "Braennen Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Pola Sieverding, 2012
  4. ^ a b "Goyang Aramnuri Aram Art Gallery", No More Daughters & Heroes, 2010
  5. ^ a b c "Kostka Gallery, Prague: Cross Metropolis Machine", Art Clue: Eastern Europe Art Magazine, 2012
  6. ^ Wound Magazine: Creative Culture Close-Up, 'Now Objectivity' by Ken Pratt Autumn 2009, p. 185-189
  7. ^ a b by Lena Maculan, Box21 Freiraum für Kultur, 2014, p. 5-6
  8. ^ "Cadavre Exquis" by Barbara Schuermann, 2009
  9. ^ a b c "BERLIN.STATUS [2] ", Exhibition, 2013
  10. ^ Berliner Senat, Arbeitsstipendien für Bildende Kunst 2014 vergeben, 2014
  11. ^ "Presentations of art based research // research based art", University of Ulster Belfast, 2011
  12. ^ "GUSTAV PEICHL: - MAK Museum Vienna". www.mak.at. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  13. ^ "The Epic — Neuer Aachener Kunstverein". www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  14. ^ "ARENA Archived 2015-04-03 at the Wayback Machine", Exhibition by Pola Sieverding. 2015
  15. ^ "Ausstellung/Exhibition", Pola Sieverding
  16. ^ "Cross Metropolis Machine/ Close to Concrete Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Exhibition by Pola Sieverding, 2012
  17. ^ "POLA SIEVERDING (DE):CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE", 2012
  18. ^ "Close to Concrete Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Maumaus Escola de Artes Visuais, Lumiar Cité, 2011
  19. ^ "Galerie Lena Brüning Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine", Pola Sieverding: Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches, 2010
  20. ^ "TÄT Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Pola Sieverding, Rhizoma, 2010
  21. ^ "Campagne Premiere", Sabeth Buchmann: on the exhibition Figures of Affect, Hamann/Sieverding, 2010
  22. ^ "Galerie Lena Brüning Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine", Pola Sieverding: Cadavre Exquis
  23. ^ "Museum Abteiberg – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst". Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  24. ^ "Programme | Photographers | Germany | Dubai Photo Exhibition". Archived from the original on 2016-06-30. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  25. ^ "neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, Art AIDS Activism 1995 until today, Exhibition, 2014
  26. ^ "701 e.V. präsentiert im KöBogen Archived 2014-07-16 at the Wayback Machine", BLENDED GENERATIONS, 2014
  27. ^ "The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar Archived 2014-08-17 at the Wayback Machine", The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, 2014
  28. ^ "040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Exhibition curated by Kristin Dittrich, 2013
  29. ^ "Art Rabbit", HYPERREALZ at Bruno Glint, 2012
  30. ^ "Georg Kolbe Museum Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", HotSpot Berlin Eine Momentaufnahme, 2011
  31. ^ "Galerie Zink Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", Alive She Cried – A Film & Video Exhibition curated by Reynold Reynolds, 2011
  32. ^ "Galerie Lena Brüning Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine", Künstler der Galerie III, 2010
  33. ^ "Six Days of New Media Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine", 2010
  34. ^ "Galerie Lena Brüning Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine", Künstler der Galerie II, 2009
  35. ^ "Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien", Hardcore Glamour, 2007
  36. ^ "KUNSTHALLE BÜHNE: DAS FEST! Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine",2014
  37. ^ "http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/ Archived 2014-12-19 at the Wayback Machine", 2012
  38. ^ "Pola Sieverding | Photography | Hatje Cantz". www.hatjecantz.de. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
  39. ^ Haghighian, Natascha Sadr; Sieverding, Pola; Kettner, Jasper (2015). Natascha Sadr Haghighian: Trail (9783959050135): Kettner, Jasper, Sieverding, Pola, Haghighian, Natascha: Books. Spector Books. ISBN 978-3959050135.
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