Katharina Bosse

 

Thingstätte

Between 1933 and 1936, “Thingstätte” (literally: sites of things) were erected as open-air theaters and propagandist meeting places in early Nazi Germany. Four hundred Thingstätten were planned, and around sixty were built. Many of these little-known sites are still scattered across Germany, Poland and Russia, some forgotten, others still actively used as open-air theaters.

Katharina Bosse
Bad Schmiedeberg, 2020
Inkjet Print from Negative
40 x 30 cm
ed.5

Katharina Bosse
Holzminden, 2020
Inkjet Print from Negative
ed.5
100 x 75 cm

Katharina Bosse
Kamenz, 2020
Inkjet Print from Negative
ed.5
40 x 30 cm

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

 

 

 

 

 

Katharina Bosse
série Portrait of the artist as a young mother, 2008
C-Print, 160 x 125 cm

Katharina Bosse was born in 1968 in Turku, Finland, and grew up in Montreal, Canada, and Kirchzarten, Germany. In the 1990s, she lived in New York, where she produced her cult series "New Burlesque".In 2003, she returned to Germany, where she continued her artistic activity, raised her children and taught photography in Bielefeld. In 2009, she presented "A portrait of the artist as a young mother" for the first time at galerie anne barrault.
Her work is in the collection of MoMA and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris. Katharina Bosse's photographs have been published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Spin, Park Avenue, Geo, Der Spiegel and The New York Times Magazine.
Katharina Bosse devotes herself to long-term projects that explore gender and biography, using portraiture, architecture and experimental photography.
She is actively involved in promoting the visibility of women photographers by organising exhibitions and publishing several books. She is also a member of femxphotographers.org and runs the curatorial programme at the "Elsa" project gallery in Bielefeld, Germany.

Solo exhibitions

2017
Sites of Projection, Chapman Gallery, KSU, Manhattan, KS
2015
Bordello Architecture, Gallery of the City of Bielefeld
2012
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, Cultural Center, Constance
2011 
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
2010 
Werkschau, Robert Morat Galerie, Hamburg
2009 
New Burlesque, Paris Burlesque Festival
A portrait of the artist as a young mother, galerie anne barrault, Paris
2006 
New Burlesque, Galerie Merz, Rottweil
2004 
Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, Galerie Interieur, Lille
2003
New Burlesque, galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2002 
New Burlesque, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
New Burlesque, Heidi Reckermann photographie
2001 
Surface Tension, Kunstverein Glüchstadt
Surface Tension, Galerie Anne Barrault
Surface Tension, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich

2000
Katharina Bosse, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
L’Empire des signes, l’Empire des sens – Service communication de la Ville de Dieppe, France
Mois de l’Image de Dieppe

1999 
Ten Rooms for Sex, Henry Urbach Architecture, New-York
Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Allemagne

1997
Signe, Galerie Lukas & Hoffman, Cologne, Allemagne
et Kunstverein Kirchzarten, Allemagne

1996 
Von aussen/von innen (from outside/from inside), Galerie Olivier Schweden, Munich, Allemagne

1995 
From outside / from inside, Galerie Foster Goldstrom, New york

1993
Ein Teil Rot (One Part Red), Photomuseum Tallinn, Estonia

Group exhibitions

(selection)

2017
Doing Identity, from the Reydan Weiss Colllection, Art Museum Bochum
Et Dieu crea la Femme, Maison Guerlain, Paris

2016  
With Different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography
The Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, and Kunsthalle Nuremberg
2015
When Man Falls, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Queensize, Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Berlin
2014
Si on n’a pas vu le Bonheur…, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris

2013  
Destroyed Images, Frappant Art, Hamburg

2012
Restons Courtois, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
PowerFlower, Galerie AbtArt, Stuttgart
Familienalbum/Family Album, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn

2011 
50 Jahre Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Wiesbadener Fototage
Automobil, Galerie AbtArt, Stuttgart
DZ Bank art collection: HEREIN !, DZ Bank Foyer, Frankfurt
The Collector’s Guide to new Art Photography vol 2 , Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2010
elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Felicitá, Centre PasquArt, Bienne
Gabriele Münter Preis 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Frauenmuseum, Bonn
Die Stimmung der Orte/The Mood of Spaces, from the DZ Bank collection, Frankfurt
Do or Die – Auf Leben und Tod The Human Condition in Painting and Photography,
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

2009
Fashion Room, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfort, Allemagne
Quelques Figures de Maternités, galerie d’art du conseil général des bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence

2008 
Ad Absurdum, Museum MARTa, Herford
Die Welt im Umbruch/A Changing World Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Photography Highlights, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld

2007 
Internationale Photo Triennale, Esslingen
En Quête d’Identité, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France

2006 
Out of Context, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, New York
Please Wait, Immanence et Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris

2005 
YES YES YES YES, Differenz und Wiederholung in Bildern der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Morsbroich

2004
Katharina Bosse, Aki Ikemura, Manuela Marques, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York
A Clear Vision, Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
About Corporeality in Editions: Artist Books, Prints, Photography. Galerie Lelong, Zürich

2003
FIAC, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris

2001
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse

2000
New York Now 2000 – Contemporary Work in Photography – Museum of the City of New York, New York
Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
Seeing Double , MoMA, New York
Good Business is the Best Art: 20 Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Groupshow of 20 Artists, including Anthony Goicolea, Lisa Levy, Ernesto Pujol and Lynne Yamamoto

1999
Luster, Gallery Henry Urbach Architecture, New-York
In the city, Trafic FRAC Haute-Normandie, France
Realm of Signs, Realms of Senses, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Allemagne
Insight-out, paysages et intérieurs (photographie contemporaine)
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Autriche
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Allemagne
Kunsthaus Baselland, Suisse

1998
Artist in the Marketplace – eighteenth annual exhibition, Musée des Arts du Bronx, New York
Outfit, Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne
Konstruktionen der Bilder (the constructions of images), German Academy of Photography

1997
Contemporary German Photography, publication de Taschen
Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Allemagne
Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Allemagne
Galerie Heidi Reckermann, Cologne, Allemagne
Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Allemagne
Wechselstrom / Alternating Current, Galerie Ulrich Fiedler,Cologne, Allemagne
Wirklich / Real, Stadtmuseum Munich (cat.), Allemagne

1996
Kunszeit (Time of Art), Zeche zum friedlichen Nachbarn, Bochum

1995
Surroundings, museum Fridericianum, Kassel (cat.)
One to six-recent photography on architecture, Galerie Aberdeen Art, Ecosse

1992
Smithereens, Galerie de Fabriek, Foto-Biennale Rotterdam, Pays-Bas

Bibliography

books

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, Filigranes/Kherer, 2011
• New Burlesque, DAP, New York, 2004
• New Burlesque, Filigranes,Paris 2004
• Surface Tension, Kruse, 2000
• Strip, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Allemagne, 1998
• L.Fritz Gruber, Könemann, Cologne, Allemagne, 1998
• Contemporary German Photography, Taschen, Cologne – Lisbonne – Londres – Paris -New York – Tokyo, 1997

catalogues

• Les trahisons du modèle / The behayal of the model, semaines européennes de l’images, le Havre, Luxembourg, Dudelange, 2000
• Mode-Körper-Mode, Photographien eines Jahrhunderts / Fashion-Body-Fashion, Photographs of a century, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2000
• Insight Out, Editions Stemmle, Zürich – New York,1999
• Signe, Galerie Lukas et Hoffmann, Cologne, Allemagne, 1997
• Wirklich, Stadtmuseum Munich, Allemagne, 1997
• Surroundings, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Allemagne, 1995
• Babylon Photography and Architecture, Fotoforum SchwarzBunt,
  Bielefeld, Allemagne, 1991

Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
• FRAC d’Ile-de-France, Paris
• L. Fritz Gruber, Köln, Allemagne
• F.C Gundlach, Hamburg, Allemagne
• Canadian Center for Achitecture, Montreal
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg