Katharina Sieverding
Katharina Sieverding
Portrait Katharina Sieverding, 2020, Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst
Katharina Sieverding, MATON I/1, 1969–1972 Photo © Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst 2023 © Klaus Mettig
Katharina Sieverding, Deutschland wird deutscher XLI/92, 1992, Pigment transfer on metal, steel frame, 300 x 400 cm, © Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst, Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst
Katharina Sieverding, GrossfotoIX/77, THE GREAT WHITE WAY GOES BLACK, 1977, Color photograph, acrylic, steel frame, 300 x 500 cm, © Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst, Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst
Katharina Sieverding, Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen III/196 07 A, 1973, Color photograph, acrylic, steel frame, 190 x 125 cm, © Katharina Sieverding, VG Bild-Kunst, Photograph: © Klaus Mettig, VG Bild-Kunst
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is honouring the work of the internationally acclaimed photographic pioneer and critical voice of Katharina Sieverding (*1941 in Prague) with a comprehensive exhibition. Active since the late 1960s, the multi-award-winning artist has been using her work to pose fundamental questions about identity, gender and race, but also about the power of images and social responsibility.
With her monumental works, which can be categorised as performance, body art and experimental film, she has added a new dimension to the artistic field of photography. Katharina Sieverding understands the medium as a sculpturally formable and transformable material that should ideally expand into an interdisciplinary way of thinking and working and is always already linked to political commentary.
Thus, it is only logical that her exhibition at K21 will also extend into the public space. In addition to a new work and central works from her creative output spanning five decades, the artist’s extensive archive will also be included in the exhibition for the first time, providing a forum for thought and discourse.