


Katharina Sieverding was born in Prague in 1944. She trained at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg from 1963-64, followed by consecutive degrees in theatre production, fine art, and film from 1964-74 at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf, where she studied under Teo Otto and Joseph Beuys. In 1976 and 77 she conducted post-graduate research at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Programme and the New School for Social Research in New York. She also participated in study programmes in the Republic of China, the
Soviet Union and the United States from 1972-88. Sieverding is one of Europe’s most acclaimed artists; her work, which explores feminist identity politics through photographic and film media, has featured in several landmark exhibitions including three Documentas and five Venice Biennales. Her solo museum exhibitions include Kunstwerk Berlin, PS1 New York, Kunsthalle Budapest, Stedelijk Museum, and Kunstverein Bonn.


Born in 1944, Prague, Czech Republic
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
Norad I-VI, 1980, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Weltlinie, Akademie Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Halle - Politik, GFLK Halle Süd, Tölz, Germany
2015
Kunstalle Geisen, Geisen, Germany
2014
Mal d’archive, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
New Works, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
2013
Ich sehe rot, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
K.S. Weltlinie 1986-2013, Museum Schloss Moylan, Kleve, Germany
Die Sonne um Mitternacht Schauen - III/196/1973, Andreas Grimm München, Munich, Germany
2012
First Light, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2011
Blue Note II, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2010
Testcuts - Projected Data Images, imai - intermedia art institute, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Ressource Terabyte 2009, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
Projected Data Images, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2008
Navigation, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
Katharina Sieverding: Trasformazioni, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
K.S. Encode VI, Galerie Gotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Printed Matter, Cologne fine art Price 2008, Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany
Public Matter, Stadt Museum Hattingen, Germany
2007
Printed Matter, Kolvenburg, Billerbeck, Germany
Schichtseite nach unten, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany
Life-Death Berlin, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
K.S. Public Intuition, Universität Witten/Herdecke, Germany
2006
Close up, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Encode IV, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Encode V, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2005
Encode I, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
Encode III, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Close up, Kunst Werke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Encode II, Grimm Rosenfeld, New York, USA
Ultra Endura, Edith-Russ-Haus und Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany
2004
Katharina Sieverding. Kaiserringträgerin der Stadt Goslar 2004, Mönchshaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
Close up, P.S.I., New York, USA
Visual Studies 2004, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Life-Death Berlin, Galerie Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany and Salon 94, New York, USA
Visual Studies 2004, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Blue Note, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bad Münstereifel, Germany
2002
Orangerie und Schlospark Belvedere, Stiftung Weimarer Klassik / Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany
Visual Studies I-VI, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
2001
Bopulär - Katharina Sieverding & Studenten, TZR Galerie, Bochum, Germany
Katharina Sieverding - Metamorphosen der Evolution, Casa di Goethe, Rome, Italy
1999
Weltlinie 1999, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bad Münstereifel, Germany
Kulturring Sondern, Städtische Galerie Sundern, Germany
Weltlinie 1999, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan
Weltlinie 1999, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Weltlinie 1999, Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
1998
Katharina Sieverding 1967-1997, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Weltlinie 1998, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Städtische Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Arbeiten auf pigment, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
1997
Stauffenbergblock I-XVI, Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
XLVII. Biennale di Venezia, Deutscher Pavillon, Venice, Italy
Künstlerin im Geschäftsjahr 1997, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
Louver L.A. Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Katharina Sieverding 1967-1997, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1996
Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria
Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lovis-Corinth-Preis, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
1995
Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
1993
Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
Deutschland wird deutscher, Kunst Werke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Nachtmensch II, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Wittrock, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ultramarine I-XII, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
Nassausicher Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
1992
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Kristallisationsbilder I-IX, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
Kunst + Projecte, Sindelfingen, Germany
1991
Kunstalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstpreis Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Germany
1990
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
1988
Memory and Vision, Art Space, San Francisco, USA
Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, Germany
1987
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
1985
Galerija Studentskog Centra, Zagreb, Croatia
MM Centar, Zagreb, Croatia
1984
Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen, Städtisches Museum Abteilberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Moltkerei, Cologne, Germany
1982
Nachtmensch, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany
1980
Norad I-VI, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
1979
Grosfotos I-XV, 75-79, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1978
Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany
China-Amerika, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Grosfotos I-XV, 75-79, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1977
Grosfotos I-X, 75-77, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1976
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1975
Scala, Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, Germany
New Screens - Grosfotos I-IV, Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
1973
196, I-VII, Galerie Ingrid von Oppenheim, Cologne, Germany
Motorkamera I-II, Galerie Ingrid von Oppenheim, Brussels, Belgium
1972
Der Palast blieb kalt und verschlossen, Galerie L´Attico, Rome, Italy
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