Katharina Sieverding

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.

Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-baden and will be on exhibit at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zürich on May 21, 2022, among other locations. Numerous key galleries and museums such as K20, Kunstsammlung NRW have featured Katharina Sieverding’s work in the past.Katharina Sieverding’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $97 USD to $25,580 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2018 the record price for this artist at auction is $25,580 USD for “Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen”, sold at Dorotheum, Vienna in 2020. Katharina Sieverding has been featured in articles for Juliet Art Magazine, ArtDaily and H A P P E N I N G. The most recent article is ‘Diversity United’ on Show in Moscow Despite Political Hurdles written for Deutsche Welle in November 2021.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
  • Katharina Sieverding: Raum 19, Knust Kunz, Munich (Ludwigstrasse), Munich, Germany
  • Katharina Sieverding: Watching The Sun At Midnight, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-baden, Germany
  • Katharina Sieverding: Photography Projections Installations 2020–1966, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
  • Out of Joint. Moments of Disruption: Chapter 2, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Out of Joint. Moments of Disruption: Chapter 1, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
2021
  • Insights: Art from the National Bank Collection, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain
  • No Mask is Wholly a Mask, L.A. Louver Galleries, Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Insights: Art From the NATIONAL-BANK Collection, MKM Museum Küppersmühle of Modern Art, Duisburg, Germany
  • Ongoing Schmidt Pick, Carlier / Gebauer, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2020
  • Looking at the Sun at Midnight, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
  • Technology Transformation: Photography and Video in the Kunstsammlung, K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Passion Is Our Motivation, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
  • Van Horn Shows Deutschland, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
  • Maskulinitäten, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
  • Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
  • Stereo_Typen. Works from the Graphic Collection of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Créer À Rebours Vers L’exposition: The Case Of 03 23 03, VOX, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Travelling the World: Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
2018
  • 30 Years 3 Exhibitions Part 1, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany

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