Portfolio Reviews

 

Sylvia Ballhause / Born 1977 / Studied communication design and fine-art photography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig with Christopher Muller and Beate Gütschow. / Her works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions and photo festivals, including “(Miss)Understanding Photography” (2004) at Museum Folkwang in Essen and Les Rencontres d’Arles. / From 2013 to 2017 she worked as a curatorial assistant at the city-run Galerie Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie in Mannheim. / Currently she is the project director for Days of Photography in Darmstadt.

Photo: © Daniel Lukac

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Photographer, Gallery

http://www.sylviaballhause.de/

 

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.

Categories:

Curators, Publishing house, Gallery

 

Michael Biedowicz / Born 1955 / Worked as a theater photographer at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin and as a fine arts photo editor at taz – die tageszeitung and Wochenpost / Since 1997 Employed at DIE ZEIT and as photo editor at ZEITmagazin since 2007 / Curator and gallerist at pavlov’s dog /  Member in numerous juries (including jury spokesperson, Deutscher Jugend Fotopreis, Photographers Association of the Netherlands [PANL], Körber Stiftung, Lotto Kunstpreis Berlin/Brandenburg, Leica Oskar Barnack Award) / Guest lecturer at Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin and Design Akademie Berlin / 2014 Appointed to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) / Since 2017 Lecturer at Lette-Verein Berlin / Michael Biedowicz lives and works in Berlin.

Categories:

Photographer, Professors, Newspaper, Gallery

http://www.pavlovsdog.org/

Photo: © Milena Cartens

 

Milena Carstens / Studied photography at Fachhochschule Bielefeld / She has worked as a photo editor for numerous projects and periodicals / 2010–2014 Gallery manager for Robert Morat’s project space in Berlin / She has worked at ZEITmagazin as a photo editor since 2012 and as senior photo editor since 2014.

Categories:

Photographer, Newspaper, Gallery

http://milenacarstens.com/

 

Caroline von Courten / b. 1983 / She works around the (image) frame of photography. / With a background in Visual Culture Studies (BA) and Photographic Studies (MA) she is currently working on her dissertation on the theoretical connotations and implication of the photographic surface. / She has curated exhibitions on paper (Foam Magazine) and in space (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Goethe-Institut, and the Dutch Culture Centre Shanghai), organizes and moderates discussions, gives lectures internationally, writes essays, and judges diverse photographic work for competitions, graduations and portfolio reviews. / Caroline von Courten grew up in the Bavarian countryside and made her way via Utrecht, Berlin, and Melbourne to Amsterdam, where she now lives with her fiancé and two daughters.

Categories:

Curators, Art Historians, Newspaper, Gallery, Museum

https://carocou.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. 

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Festival makers, Gallery, Museum

http://www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de/

Photo: © Thekla Ehling

 

Robert Morat / Born 1971 / Studied German and art history at Universität Hamburg /  Traineeship at Süddeutschen Zeitung, Munich / Editorial assistant at Gruner + Jahr GmbH, Hamburg / Went on to work as a freelance print and TV journalist for various editorial teams / 2004 Opened Robert Morat Galerie für Fotografie in Hamburg, which focused on emerging contemporary photographers from the start, including Christian Patterson, Ron Jude, Ute + Werner Mahler, Peter Puklus, Mårten Lange, and Andrea Grützner / Since 2008 Member of Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) / 2010–2015 Member of AIPAD board, New York / 2010 Opened new project space in Berlin / 2015 Moved gallery to Berlin.

Categories:

Curators, Gallery, Art Buying

http://www.robertmorat.de/

 

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

 

Stephanie von Spreter  / Born 1977 / She is a freelance curator and writer based in Oslo / 2011—2018 director of Fotogalleriet, Oslo / She has curated a large number of exhibitions and seminars with a focus on contemporary camera-based art, worked with both Nordic and international artists, including Øystein Aasan, Terje Abusdal, Tania Bruguera, Felix Gmelin, Ane Hjort Guttu, Thomas Hirschhorn, Timo Kelaranta, Jacob Kirkegaard, Shirana Shahbazi, Alec Soth and Mette Tronvoll amongst others. / Von Spreter is also the co-founder and owner of the first exhibition guide for contemporary art in Oslo, U.F.O. (ufoguide.no) / Before moving to Norway, von Spreter worked for various large exhibitions and projects, including the 3rd, 4th and 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the 50. Biennale di Venezia and Documenta11.

Categories:

Curators, Festival makers, Gallery

Photo: © Loredana Nemes

 

Dr. Christiane Stahl / Born1963 / Studied art history, theater and film studies at École du Louvre Paris and Freie Universität Berlin / Since 2002 Head of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung / Talks, publications, jury member and lecturer with a focus on modern and contemporary photography.

 

Categories:

Art Historians, Professors, Gallery, Museum

http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de/