Portfolio Reviews

Nadine Barth / Studied philosophy, literature and art history in Hamburg / Worked for many years as a journalist and art dealer / 2006 founded the barthouse culture concepts agency for art and communications / Editor of diverse publications on photography and fashion including Vanishing Landscapes and Traumfrauen (both 2008), Traummänner, Amazonen and German Fashion Design (all 2011), Daniel Josefsohn: OK DJ (2014), Anatol Kotte: Iconication and Martin Roemers: Metropolis (both 2015), Andres Serrano: Salvation and BerlinRaumRadar (both 2016) / Curator of exhibitions including for the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, MAMM in Moscow, Puma in Singapore and the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin / 2013 to present: consulting editor for photography art books at Hatje Cantz / Nadine Barth lives and works in Berlin.

 

Photo: © Dorothea Tuch

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house, Gallery

Michael Biedowicz / Born 1955 / After ten years working as a theatre photographer at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, began his career as picture-editor and photojournalist for various publications / In 1997 joined German weekly DIE ZEIT / Since 2007 to present: picture-editor for ZEITmagazin / Since 2012 CEO at A1A artprint and curator and co-owner of the gallery for photography pavlov’s dog / Member of the judging panels of numerous national and international competitions as Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Photography Association of the Netherlands / Guest lecturer at MERZ Akademie, Stuttgart, and Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin / 2014 awarded membership of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie / Michael Biedowicz lives and works in Berlin.

Interested in:

new personal styles and ways of seeing.

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper, Gallery

http://www.pavlovsdog.org/

Nina Grundemark / Born in 1967 / Studied IT and history of art, specializing in photography / 2007 opened her first photographic gallery in Stockholm / 2010 to present: founded the Grundemark Nilsson Gallery (formerly the Swedish Photography Gallery) in Berlin as managing director with Dorothee Nilsson as gallery director / As managing director presents 5 to 6 exhibitions a year in Stockholm and Berlin featuring a new generation of contemporary photo-based artists with a strong connection to Sweden as well as established artists like Christer Strömholm and Dawid / Grundemark Nilsson Gallery also participates regularly in art fairs including Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam, Photo Basel and AIPAD New York / Freelance curator of exhibitions including for the Nobel Prize Award in Sweden (2010), Nordic Embassies in Germany (2011) and Pingyao Photo Festival in China (2012) / Nina Grundemark lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.

 

Photo: http://sfoto.se/f/nyheter/vad-sag-du-fotografi-i-malmo-reviewer [05.08.2016/15:00]

Categories:

Curators, Gallery

http://www.grundemarknilsson.se/

Simone Klein / Born 1967 / Studied history of art, French and German literature and linguistics at Bonn University and at the Sorbonne in Paris / 1996 assistant at the Kicken Gallery in Cologne / 1997 to 2007 director of the photography department at the Kunsthaus Lempertz auction house in Cologne / 2007 to 2015 director of the photography department at Sotheby’s Europe / Since 2015 global director of print sales at Magnum Photos, sales of vintage and contemporary material, art fairs and print-room programming, international business development / Simone Klein lives and works in Paris and Cologne.

Photo: © Lea Lund

Categories:

Gallery, Art Buying

https://www.magnumphotos.com/

Christina Leber / Born 1966 / Studied Catholic theology and education at various universities in Germany and abroad, completing her studies with a PhD / 1992 to 1999 worked freelance in various corporate art collections including at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Tetra Pak and DG BANK / 1999 to 2001 director of the 2nd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / 2003 to 2011 curator of the DZ BANK art collection / 2008 published a book on art collections in German corporations between the years 1965 and 2000 / Seit 2011 director of the DZ BANK art collection / Christina Leber lives and works in Frankfurt. 

Categories:

Festival makers, Gallery, Museum

Timothy Persons / 1982 to present: adjunct professor and director of the Professional Studies Program at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, where he is the principle architect and leader of the Helsinki School / 1995 founded Gallery Taik Persons in Helsinki; the gallery relocated to Berlin in 2005 / As well as holding around eight solo and group exhibitions per year, Gallery Taik Persons also works actively with independent publishing houses including Hatje Cantz and Kehrer Verlag to create limited-edition art books / 2006 to present: board member of Paris Photo / Curatorial advisor to Kulturhuset, Stockholm; KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art and National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen / Persons has curated more than 40 international photography exhibitions, written numerous books, and exhibited his own work worldwide / Timothy Persons lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Curators, Professors, Gallery

http://gallerytaikpersons.com/

Katia Reich / Born 1969 / 1989 to 1992 assistant manager in the art business / 1999 Master’s in art history, classical archaeology and modern history / 1999 to 2005 curator with the working group for photography at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK) / 2000 to 2004 director of the gallery Wohnmaschine, Berlin / 2003 and 2005 project manager for the German entries to the Venice Biennale / 2005 to 2012 project manager of the Berlin Biennale at KW Berlin, responsible for more than 300 projects / In 2007 published Die deutschen Beiträge zur Biennale Venedig 1895–2007 together with Ursula Zeller (DuMont Verlag) / 2009 and 2010 co-curated Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin / 2012 appointed curator of the 5th European Month of Photography / Published catalogue of 5th European Month of Photography (Kerber Verlag) / Katia Reich lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Curators, Art Historians, Gallery