Katharina Bosse

works

 

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

biography


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

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

    exhibitions




    books & prints


    Katharina Bosse - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother

    Texts: Marie Darrieussecq and David Riedel

    Editions Filigranes

    2011

    76 pages

    30 €

    Katharina Bosse - New Burlesque

    New Burlesque

    Text: Cécile Camart

    Editions Filigranes

    2003

    170 x 230 cm

    104 pages

    35 €

    Katharine Boss - Surface Tension

    Surface Tension

    Texts: Neal Leach and Reinhold Misselbeck

    Kruse verlag

    2001

    112 pages

    Epuisé