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Katharina MayerTheatrum Familiæ

Theatrum FamiliæInstallation View,

Galerie Lausberg 2012Foto: Thomas Herbrich

Katharina Mayer picks up on classic concepts of familyportraiture and transports these into the present dayboth formally and in terms of content. The unusual photographs of this former Becher student are sensi-tively constructed documentary family scenes that,although carefully staged, never appear unnatural.

Katharina Mayer schafft, ausgehend vom klassischenFamilienportrait, außergewöhnliche Fotografien, indenen sie das Thema Familie sowohl formal als auchinhaltlich in unsere heutige Zeit transportiert. Die ehemalige Becher-Schülerin entwirft mit großerSensibilität dokumentarische Inszenierungen, die trotzIhres gestalteten Moments nie gezwungen wirken.

Familie BaganzToronto, Canada 2013

Sutton Family Toronto, Canada 2012

Lopez FamilyToronto, Canada 2012

Brothers in armsBad Doberan 2010

Familie HansenSulzbach-Laufen 2012

Hansen JungsSulzbach-Laufen 2012

Familie Ruhland Düsseldorf 2012

Anna StephanskajaDüsseldorf 2011

Familie BordoliComo, Italy 2012

Vero EndemannDüsseldorf 2012

Familie Dennerlein, Kind auf SchaukelBerlin 2011

Charlotte Daugstrup mit KindernDüsseldorf 2011

Markus GuntiBerlin 2010

Jordan Burns Family Totonto, Canada 2012

Betty Ann Jordan says: „ Katharina Mayer expressed a genuine delight in helping us to come to terms withwho we are or, more precisely, who we appear to be”.

Ezer Family Toronto, Canada 2012

Familie KutschDüsseldorf 2011

Familie RuhlandDüsseldorf 2012

Katharina MayerLives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany

1988–92 Studied photography at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf under ProfessorBernd Becher and video with Prof. Nan Hoover

1996 Lecturer for Photography, University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf Academy and Federal Wolfenbuttel

2005–08 Lecturer in photography at the Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld

2009–10Visiting Professor at the College of Applied Arts, Vienna, project faitiche

2011Curator of Exhibitions and lyrical correctness in the context of Jewish Halacha Cultural Festival 2011 in NRW

2012Professor for photography at the BTK Berlin / Iserlohn

Work in private and public collections, including representation in theDeutsche Bank, London, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf,MuseumLudwig, Cologne Museum of Art, EON Düsseldorf, Krefeld BPG, UpperAustrian State Gallery, Linz, State Gallery of Stuttgart.

Vorderseite / front:Familie PurdyLondon 2006

Rückseite / back:Alex and his friendsDüsseldorf 2006

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