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
Northeim , 2020
Inkjet Print from Negative
ed.5
100 x 75 cm
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Campground
100 x 75 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Dean Martin Room
100 x 75 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Flower Tapestry
75 x 100 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Jail Cell
75 x 100 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Studio Photo
75 x 100 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
Boudoir
100 x 75 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
series Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, 1999
OP
100 x 75 cm
C-print
ed.6
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Bebe Bijoux
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Babeth Lafave
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
World Famous Pontani Sisters
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Vivienne Va-Voom
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Venus DMilo
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Ursulina
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Trixi Tanqueray
C-print
60 x 45 cm
Katharina Bosse
série New Burlesque, 2001
Stella Starr
C-print
60 x 45 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
2025
Mama | Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany | Curated by: Linda Conze, Head of Department of Photographs, Westrey Page, Curator Special Projects and Anna Christina Schütz, Department of Prints and Drawings, Research Associate
2024
Intérieurs | Galerie anne barrault – Paris
2023
Gunaikeîon / 40 ans du Frac | Fondation Fiminco & les Réserves du Frac Île-de-France, Romainville | Curated by: Jade Barget, Daisy Lambert, Camille Martin, Céline Poulin et Elsa Vettier
2022
Mettre au monde | L'Artsenal, centre d'art contemporain, Dreux | Curated by: Amélie Adamo, Lucile Hitier
(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
