Galerie Thomas Schulte

Berlin
Galerie Thomas Schulte

Katharina Sieverding

(German, born 1944)

Katharina Sieverding is a contemporary Czech-born German photographer whose surrealist work explores of the role of the individual in society. Her large-scale portraits are often tinted red or vibrant blue, creating a visually bold and graphic aesthetic that subtly alludes to the conceptual nature of her work. She has also explored the relationship of film and serial installations of her photographs to further complicate her practice. In one of her best-known pieces, Untitled (Ultramarine) (1993), Sieverding presents a group of eight self-portraits in an ambitious multimedia installation that challenges her audience and the traditional role of the gaze in art. Born on 1944 in Prague, Czech Republic, she studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf...