Pola Sieverding (born 1981) is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media."Art News", Pola Sieverding Vita
Education Sieverding graduated in 2007 with an MFA from the Berlin University of the Arts where she studied under Stan Douglas,"DLD Conference". Pola Sieverding, 2011 Ellen Cantor, Dieter Appelt, Sabeth Buchmann, and Katja Diefenbach. In 2002, she attended the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in 2005 the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow."Braennen ", Pola Sieverding, 2012
Work The artist's work questions traditional concepts of gender,"Goyang Aramnuri Aram Art Gallery", No More Daughters & Heroes, 2010 culture,"Kostka Gallery, Prague: Cross Metropolis Machine", Art Clue: Eastern Europe Art Magazine, 2012 and normality; capturing both specific social spaces and the unique people who live in them. Sieverding's work primarily analyses the relationship between her subjects- individuals who range from women in traditional Islamic dress to drag queens,Wound Magazine: Creative Culture Close-Up, 'Now Objectivity' by Ken Pratt Autumn 2009, p. 185-189 performance actorsby Lena Maculan, Box21 Freiraum für Kultur, 2014, p. 5-6 and the Berlin club scene-"Cadavre Exquis" by Barbara Schuermann, 2009 to their bodies. In recent years the artist has added to her work the depiction of equally unique architecture which is portrayed as means of being a specific social space. Continuously throughout the artist's work, materiality plays a significant role: be it elements of concrete and glass in Close to Concrete I and II, hair in To The Crowned And Conquering Child or textiles as in the photo series Text I-VI."BERLIN.STATUS ", Exhibition, 2013 In cooperation with Orson Sieverding, the artist develops electronic soundscapes for her installations which when projected onto her protagonists transform into urban echoes.
2019 the artist, who also works as a curator, joined the team to help set up the art festival Düsseldorf Photo Plus. She became one of the artistic directors in 2020, 2022 and 2022, creating exhibitions, film programs, and symposia.https://www.duesseldorf.de/fotografie/duesseldorf-photo-plus
Grants Sieverding has won an art grant from the Senate of Berlin twice, in 2008 and 2014.Berliner Senat, Arbeitsstipendien für Bildende Kunst 2014 vergeben, 2014 In 2011 Sieverding was invited as an artist in residence at the Meet Factory in Prague, the Maumaus in Lisbon, and as a visiting lecturer at the International Art Academy in Ramallah, Palestine where she received an art grant from the Anna Lindh Foundation." Presentations of art based research // research based art", University of Ulster Belfast, 2011 Today the artist resides and works in Berlin.
Major solo exhibitions 2018/2019: "Bodies that matter", knustxkunz+, München 2018: "Gustav Peichl - 15 Bauten zum 90sten", MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien 2016: "THE EPIC", NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2015: "ARENA", at Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin"ARENA ", Exhibition by Pola Sieverding. 2015 2014: "GRANDS ENSEMBLES" at BOX21 Freiraum für Kultur, Berlin"Ausstellung/Exhibition", Pola Sieverding 2012: "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at BRAENNEN, Berlin"Cross Metropolis Machine/ Close to Concrete ", Exhibition by Pola Sieverding, 2012 2012 "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE" at Galerie Kostka, Prague"POLA SIEVERDING (DE):CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE", 2012 2011: "CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon"Close to Concrete ", Maumaus Escola de Artes Visuais, Lumiar Cité, 2011 2010: "Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin"Galerie Lena Brüning ", Pola Sieverding: Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches, 2010 2010: "RHIZOMA" at TÄT, Berlin"TÄT ", Pola Sieverding, Rhizoma, 2010 2009/2010: "Figures of Affect" Friederike Hamann and Pola Sieverding, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin"Campagne Premiere", Sabeth Buchmann: on the exhibition Figures of Affect, Hamann/Sieverding, 2010 2009: "Cadavre Exquis" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin"Galerie Lena Brüning ", Pola Sieverding: Cadavre Exquis
Major group exhibitions 2016: "Von den Strömen der Stadt", Museum Abteiberg, Mönhengladbach 2016: "The Self. Perception – Profession – Portrait", Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai kuratiert von Frank Wagner und Zelda Cheatle 2014: "LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2" at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin"neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst ", LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, Art AIDS Activism 1995 until today, Exhibition, 2014 2014: "Blended Generations" at 701 e.V., Düsseldorf 2014"701 e.V. präsentiert im KöBogen ", BLENDED GENERATIONS, 2014 2014: "The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar" at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles"The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar ", The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, 2014 2013: "BERLIN.STATUS " at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2013: "040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst – Destroyed Images" at Frappant, Hamburg"040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst ", Exhibition curated by Kristin Dittrich, 2013 2012: "Hyperrealz" at Bruno Glint, London"Art Rabbit", HYPERREALZ at Bruno Glint, 2012 2011: "Hot Spot Berlin" at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin"Georg Kolbe Museum ", HotSpot Berlin Eine Momentaufnahme, 2011 2011: "Alive She Cried" curated by Reynold Reynolds at Galerie Zink, Berlin"Galerie Zink ", Alive She Cried – A Film & Video Exhibition curated by Reynold Reynolds, 2011 2010: "Künstler der Galerie III" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin"Galerie Lena Brüning ", Künstler der Galerie III, 2010 2010: "Six Days of New Media" at Linienstraße 127, Berlin"Six Days of New Media ", 2010 2010: "No more daughters and heroes" at Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul 2009: "Künstler der Galerie II" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin"Galerie Lena Brüning ", Künstler der Galerie II, 2009 2007: "Hardcore Glamour" at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin"Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien", Hardcore Glamour, 2007
Major collaborations and performances 2014: "Kunsthalle Bühne: Das Fest! VERSION featuring ORSON&POLA", Orson Sieverding and Pola Sieverding at Kunstverein, Düsseldorf"KUNSTHALLE BÜHNE: DAS FEST! ",2014 2012: " https://web.archive.org/web/20141219114212/http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/ " Natascha Sadr Haghighian collaborating with Pola Sieverding at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel"http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/ ", 2012
Publications 2018: THE EPIC, Hrsg. NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Verlag Hatje Cantz 2016: Berlin Raum Radar edited by Nadine Barth, Verlag Hatje Cantz 2016: Dubai Photo Exhibition, edited by Zelda Cheatle 2015: trail, edited by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Pola Sieverding, Jasper Kettner; Schriftenreihe des documenta Archivs. Verlag Spector Books, Leipzig 2015: History is a Warm Gun, edited by Britta Schmitz, n.b.k. Berlin, Verlag Walter König 2015: ARENA, exhibition catalogue by Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin 2014: LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, edited by Frank Wagner, nGbK, Berlin 2013: Artists for Revival – Rehberger, Morris, Brandenburg, Sieverding, Bonvicini, Yalcindag, Schulze, Sweeny, Zipp, Nickolson, edited by Schiesser 2013: Berlin.Status(2) – 50 Positionen junger Künstler und Künstlerinnen aus Berlin, edited by Sven Drühl, Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20141219114212/http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Pola Sieverding at dOCUMENTA (13) 2010: Never Mind About The Six Feet. Let's Talk About The Seven Inches, exhibition catalogue by Galeria Lena Brüning, Berlin 2010: TEXT Revue, edited by Andrea van Dühren, Berlin 2009: WOUND: Creative Culture Close Up, Pola Sieverding: Now Objectivity by Ken Pratt, London, UK, Fall Issue 2008: Spex, Nr. 312, White Cube Ambition-Junge Berliner Künstler, Liebling Nr. 05, Special Issue 2004: Klinik unter Palmen-Statements aus der Kunstakademie, in Texte zur Kunst "Erziehung" Issue 53
References
External links About the Seven Inches by Marc Siegel