Katharina Sieverding

More than five decades ago, Katharina Sieverding was one of the artists who recognised the manifold expressive possibilities of photography early on; since then, she has continually expanded the medium in terms of content and form. Her works focus on processes of transformation and representation, questions of identity, gender and role clichés. Sieverding has become known for the consistency with which she has used her portraits – some of them dramatically enlarged and manipulated in various ways – in film and photography since the 1960s, as in the work exhibited here.

Anyone familiar with Sieverding's numerous large-format self-portraits – some of them transformed via solarisation or with a metallic overlay – knows that no compromises are made here artistically. It is no coincidence that Sieverding is still considered one of the most important representatives of her generation in Germany – and a timeless pioneer of international photography.

Katharina Sieverding's works have been shown in over 800 group and 150 solo exhibitions and are represented in numerous prominent collections, including MoMA, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum Folkwang, Essen; and Kunstsammlung NRW.

Katharina Sieverding (born 1941 in Prague) lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin.