CV - Eva Leitolf

Eva Leitolf
[email protected] www.evaleitolf.de
CV
1966
born in Würzburg, lives and works in Munich and the Bavarian Forest
Education
1995-97
Master of Arts, Mentor: Allan Sekula, California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts), USA
1986-94
studied communication design (major: photography), University GH Essen
Grants and awards
2015
Working grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds, Germany
2014
Karl-Buchrucker award for Clearing
2013
Whodunnit selected for Art in Architecture commission at Schongau Police
Station, Germany (realised 2014)
2013
Project grant from VG Bild-Kunst for Postcards from Europe/Germany
2012
Scholarship at Villa Massimo, Rome
2011
Premio Fotografia Roma (Honorable Mention)
2010
Bruder Jakob selected for Art in Architecture commission at the Federal Ministry
of Labour and Social Affairs, Berlin (realised 2010)
2009
Project grant from VG Bild-Kunst for Postcards from Europe
2008
Nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2006
The Spectators selected for Art in Architecture commission at Marienplatz
underground station, Munich (realised 2006)
2005
Project grant from VG Bild-Kunst for Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche
(German Images – Looking for Evidence)
2002
Project scholarship from the City of Munich
1999
Document Nederland scholarship from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and NRC
Handelsblad, Rotterdam (exhibition, publication)
1996
ICP Annual Infinity Award, Young Photographer, (International Center of
Photography, New York)
Solo shows (selection)
2015
Postcards from Europe 10/15, Kunst Haus Wien,Vienna/Austria
Postcards from Europe 03/15, Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin/Italy
Postcards from Europe 03/15, Espace Quai1, Vevey/Switzerland
2014
Postcards from Europe 10/14, Kehrer Berlin Gallery, Berlin/Germany
2013
Postcards from Europe 03/13, Sprengel Museum, Hannover/G (publication)
2012
Postcards from Europe, Villa Massimo, Rome/Italy
Clearing, Villa Massimo, Rome/Italy (publication)
2009
Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche (German Images – Looking for Evidence),
Photo Phnom Penh/Cambodia
2008
Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche (German Images – Looking for Evidence),
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich/Germany (publication)
2007
Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche (German Images – Looking for Evidence)
and Rostock Ritz, Les Chiroux, Liège/Belgium
2005
Rostock Ritz, Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich/Germany (publication)
2000
Schöne Grüße, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam/The Netherlands (catalogue)
1997
Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche (German Images – Looking for Evidence),
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles/France (catalogue)
Group shows (selection)
2016
Wolfsburg Unlimited, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Germany (catalogue)
Wir Flüchtlinge – von dem Recht Rechte zu haben, Badischer Kunstverein,
Karlsruhe/Germany
Zoom. Picturing Architecture and the City, Architekturzentrum Wien,
Vienna/Austria (catalogue)
Zimmer mit Aussicht, Kehrer Galerie, Berlin
2015
When there is Hope, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/Germany (catalogue)
Zoom. Picturing Architecture and the City, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich/Germany (catalogue)
Tous pour Tous/All for All, Le Chiroux, Liege/Belgium
2014
Zukunft fotografieren, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (catalogue)
2013
Villa Massimo 2012, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
Provisorium, Schaustelle, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Ankommen, Sammlung Alison und Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf
Zukunft fotografieren, NCCA, Moscow (catalogue)
Alone Together – Photography and the Other, The National Gallery of Kosovo,
Pristina, Kosovo
2012
Making History, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue)
2011
Points of View, Kunstverein Hildesheim (catalogue)
Wherever I Lay Down My Camera Is Home, Macro Testaccio, Rome (catalogue)
Angry: Young and Radical, Fotomuseum Rotterdam
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia
University, New York (catalogue)
Sightseeing, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, New
Zealand (publication)
Stiftungspreis für Fotokunst 2011, Alison und Peter Klein Stiftung, EberdingenNussdorf
2010
Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)possible, The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art
at the University of Florida, Gainesville, United States (catalogue)
Sightseeing, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand (publication)
Postcard Pictures, Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of Plymouth, United
Kingdom (publication)
En Filigrane: Eva Leitolf and Works by Her Students, Pasqu’Art Photoforum,
Biel, Switzerland (catalogue)
2009
Carte Blanche VI: East for the Record, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst,
Leipzig (catalogue)
2007
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, United States
Reality Bites – Kunst nach dem Mauerfall, Stiftung Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim
(catalogue)
Mistigris – Contemporary German Photography, The Gallery at UTA, University
of Texas at Arlington, United States
2005
Neue Heimat, Frieze Art Fair with Galerie Michael Neff
Wirklich wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien, Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen
(catalogue)
2001
Art in Transition 1: Memories of Nature, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh,
United States
Phigment, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Los Angeles
2000
Die Welt als Ganzes: Fotografie aus Deutschland nach 1989, SK-Stiftung,
Cologne (catalogue)
1997
Contemporary German Photography, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin;
Wittenbrink, Munich; Reckermann, Cologne; Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
(catalogue)
1996
Das deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalogue)
Teaching
Since 2012
Senior Lecturer in Photography and Arts, curriculum development, School of Art
and Design, Lucerne University, Switzerland
2012
Workshop New Stories, Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD), Geneva,
Switzerland
2010–2012
Workshop series at the Ecole de Photographie de Vevey, Switzerland
En Filigrane, Pasqu’Art Photoforum, Biel (catalogue)
Payday: Money, Markets and Resistance, CEPV/Festival Vevey (catalogue)
2000–2010
Workshops for the Goethe Institute in Bangladesh, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire
1999/2000
Temporary professor of photography at University GH Essen
1997
Teaching assistant at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), United States
Lectures, symposia and artist talks (selection)
2016
Unstable Narratives. Artistic Views on Migration, School of Art and Design,
Lucerne University, lecture and organisation
2015
No signs of Crime, Prof.Bernd Stiegler in discussion with Eva Leitolf, Kehrer
Galerie, Berlin
2014
Floating Volumes #4 – Layering DiverCity / City and Identity within Art
Research, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, lecture and discussion
2013
Bilderwissen – Décoder l’Image, School of Art and Design, Lucerne University,
lecture and organisation
Ethics and Aesthetics: The Responsibility of Photography, interdisciplinary
postgraduate research colloquium, Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für
Kunstgeschichte, Bildarchiv FotoMarburg, lecture and discussion
2011
Under Influence: Table ronde autour des relations entre photographie, cinéma et
art contemporain, Musée d´Elysee, Lausanne, symposium
2005
Die Politik der Erinnerung – Spurensuche zwischen Namibia und Deutschland,
symposium, film series, reading and exhibition Rostock Ritz, Culture Department
of the City of Munich, Forum Goethe-Institut, Museum of Ethnology, Munich
Publications
Eva Leitolf = studio 9. 13 photographs and texts in German and English, Villa Massimo, Rome,
2013. (Offprint from Villa Massimo, Jahrbuch 2012).
Postcards from Europe 03/13. Twenty photographs and texts. Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2013.
Deutsche Bilder – eine Spurensuche (German Images – Looking for Evidence). Forty-four
photographs, with texts in German and English by Eva Leitolf. Snoeck, Cologne, 2008.
Die Zuschauer/The Spectators. Five photographs, with a text in German and English by Tobias
Rüther. Schaden, Cologne, 2006.
Rostock Ritz. Twenty-three photographs, with texts by Uwe Timm, Larissa Förster, Brigitta
Schmidt-Lauber, Manasse Veseevete and Eva Leitolf. German and English editions. Schaden,
Cologne, 2005.
Contributions in (selection)
analyse & kritik, The Shape of Things to Come. 11 künstlerische Positionen zu Gegenwart,
Utopie und Dystopie, 15. März 2016
Burcu Dogramaci, ed., Heimat. Eine künstlerische Spurensuche, Köln 2015
Emine Sahinaz Akalin, Arne Bunk, Gustav Mechlenburg, Erich Pick, ed., Floating Volumes
#4: Layering Divercity. Stadt und Identität in der künstlerischen Forschung, Textem Verlag,
Hamburg 2015
Andres Lepik, Hilde Strobl, ed., Zoom! Architektur und Stadt im Bild | Picturing Architecture and
the City, Köln 2015
Erzen Shkololli, Frits Gierstberg, ed., Alone Together, Photography and the Other - three
classical works by Marina Abramovic & Ulay positioned in a context of contemporary works by
15 artists and photographers. published by the National Gallery of Kosovo, 2015
Jonas Beyer, ed., Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwart, Ausgabe 108/Heft 24/4. Quartal
2015
Esther Ruelfs, ed., Zukunft fotografieren. Heidelberg, 2014.
Villa Massimo, Jahrbuch 2012. Rome, 2014.
Thorsten Scheid, ed., Points of View. Heidelberg, 2013.
Vincent Marcilhacy, ed., The Eyes #1. Paris, 2013.
Ray Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain, Making History. Ostfildern-Ruit, 2012.
David Alan Harvey, ed., Burn 02. Missouri City, TX, 2011.
Kerry Oliver-Smith, ed., Project Europa: Imagining the (Im)Possible. Samuel P. Harn Museum
of Art, 2010.
Frank-Heinrich Müller, ed., East: Zu Protokoll/For the Record. Ostfildern-Ruit, 2009.
Anne-Celine Jaeger, ed., Image Makers, Image Takers. London, 2008.
Sabine Eckmann, ed., Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany. OstfildernRuit, 2007.
Stefanie Grebe and Sigrid Schneider, eds., Wirklich wahr! Realitätsversprechen von Fotografien.
Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004.
Shahidul Alam, ed., Blink: 100 Photographers, 010 Curators, 010 Writers. London, 2002.
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, ed., Die Welt als Ganzes: Fotografie aus Deutschland nach 1989.
Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Buren/Neighbours. Amsterdam, 2000.
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, ed., Contemporary German Photography. Cologne, 1997.
Ulrich Pohlmann, ed., Wirklich – 7 Positionen zeitgenössischer Fotografie in Deutschland.
Munich, 1997.
International Center of Photography, Annual Infinity Awards. New York, 1996.
Interviews
Rémi Coignet, Conversations, Paris 2014
Stan Banos, “Eva Leitolf – An Interview”, reciprocity-failure.blogspot.com, 9 March 2010.
Franziska Brückner, “Mehrfachbelichtung – Eva Leitolfs Arbeit im Prozess”, netzwerk-mira.de,
2009.