KELM, Annette

About the German photographer, Annette KELM (b. 1975, in Stuttgart)

Annette KELM studied at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts, where she graduated in 2000. She became known for her idiosyncratic color photographs, which are characterized by a documentary style interspersed with surrealistic and humorous touches, and whose range of motifs includes still life as well as portraits, architecture and landscape. In her works, she addresses cultural and socio-political aspects, whereby she is concerned with the disclosure of perceptual processes. She exhibits her photographs both as individual shots and as series of images. Annette KELM lives in Berlin.

Photo books by and about the work of Annette KELM

'Errors' (2006); 'Annette Kelm' (2009); 'Lynn Valley 4' (2009); 'No Such Thing As History - Four Collections And One Artist' (2014); 'Subjects and Objects' (2015); 'Leaves' (2017); 'Tomato Target' (2020); 'The Books' (2022)

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KELM, Annette - Die Bücher
KELM, Annette - Die Bücher
In the volume 'Die Bücher' by Annette KELM, her precise photographic view of those books that were burned by Nazi students in the middle of Berlin on May 10, 1933, is representative of the persecuted authors and the possibilities of representing history.
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Solo exhibitions (a selection)
  • 1999: Nomadenoase Gallery, Golden Pudel Club, Hamburg, Germany
    2008: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
    2009: Kunsthalle Zurich; Camera Austria, Graz; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
    2011: Bonner KV, Bonn
    2012: Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
    2014: 'Dust', Cologne KV, Cologne
    2015: Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
    2016: Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Herald St, London; VOX. Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal
    2017: Kestner Society, Hanover
    2018: 'Light Double', KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin; 'Annette Kelm', Fosun Foundation Shanghai; 'Tomato Target', KH Vienna
    2020: 'Geld', Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt/M.; 'Die Bücher', Salon Berlin
    2022: 'The Books', Kunsthalle Kiel & Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
Group exhibitions (a selection)
  • 2002: other spaces, Kunstverein Hamburg
    2006: 'Don Quijote', Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; 'Gold Standard', P.S.1 / MoMA, New York
    2007: '... 5 Minutes later', Kunstwerke, Berlin; 'L.A. Desire', Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf; 'Made in Germany', Sprengel Museum, Hannover; 'The History of a Decade That Has Not yet Been Named', 9th Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
    2008: 'Re-Used Modernity', Brussels Biennale, Brussels
    2009: 'Phot(o)bjects', The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver; 'Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst', Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; 'Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße', Weserburg, Bremen; 'The Photographic Object', The Photographers' Gallery, London; 'Kelm/Jensen/Breuer', KW Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin
    2010: 'TRUST', Media City Seoul, The 6th biennale, Seoul; 'Discovery Award', 41st edition of the Rencontres d'Arles; 'How Soon is Now', Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
    2011: 54th Biennale di Venezia; 'The Anxiety of Photography', Aspen Art Museum, USA; 'Untitled (Abstraction)', Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial); 'ILLUMInations', 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; 'Beyond', International Curator Exhibition of Tallinn Month of Photography, Kumu, Tallinn
    2012: 'Time, place and the camera. Photographs at work', Kosova Art Gallery Prishtina; 'Only Parts of us will ever touch parts of others', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; 'Painting in Photography', Städel Museum, Frankfurt/M.
    2013: 'Dear Portrait', Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales; Kunsthaus Zürich; 'New Photography 2013', MoMA, New York
    2015: 'Déjà vu in photographic art', DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/M.; 'IMAGINE REALITY. RAY 2015 Photography Projects', MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt/M.; 'Camera of Wonders', Centro de la Imagén, Centro Histórico, México; 'Future Perfect. Contemporary Art from Germany', Kaliningrad State Art Gallery; 'Conception now, Museum Morsbroich'; 'Looking Back: The 9th White Columns Annual', Selected by Cleopatra's, White Columns, New York; 'Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition', Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
    2016: 'AIMIA AGO Photography Prize', Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; 'Broken White', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; 'With Other Eyes. The Portrait in Contemporary Photography', Kunstmuseum Bonn; 'Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagne'r, Centre Pompidou, Paris; 'Invisible Adversaries', Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
    2017: 'The Adventure of Our Collection II,' Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld; 'Optical Illusions,' C/O Berlin; 'FaceTunes,' Bielefelder KV; 'Portrait II,' Oldenburger KV
    2018: 'The Vitalist Economy of Painting', Galerie Neu, Berlin; 'Soft Focus', Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; 'I dreamed that I was leaving on a trip but I forgot my money', Galerie Thomas Fischer, Berlin; '[CONTROL] NO CONTROL', Triennale der Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthalle; 'Camera Austria International. Laboratory for photography and theory', Museum der Moderne Salzburg
    2019: 'Kubus. Sparda Art Prize', Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; 'The Skin of the Visible World', Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna
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