BEHREND, Ute

About German photographer, Ute Behrend

Ute BEHREND is an artist, publisher, lecturer and visual editor. After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, she studied communication design at the FH Wiesbaden from 1985-1987, then photo design at the FH Dortmund and at the Hochschule für Grafik-und Buchkunst (HGB) Leipzig (1990). 1993 Diploma with André GELPKE. Ute BEHREND lives and works in Cologne.

Photo books by and with works by Ute BEHREND

  • 'Girls some Boys and Other Cookies' (1996); 'Mädchen / Fairy Tales' (2005); 'Zimmerpflanzen' (2007); 'The Last Year of Childhood (2011); 'elf uhr elf. Fotografien zum Kölner Karneval' (2014); 'Bärenmädchen / Bear Girls' (2019); 'Cows and Cars' (2024);

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Köln und seine Fotobücher
Köln und seine Fotobücher
'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.
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BEHREND, Ute - Bear Girls - SIGNED COPY!
BEHREND, Ute - Bear Girls - SIGNED COPY!
Adolescence is the subject of the photographic volume 'Bärenmädchen' (Bear Girls) by German photographer Ute BEHREND. She tells the story of a fictional 'Indian tribe' that separates its adolescent girls and draws parallels to our society.
45,00 € * Weight 1 kg
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elf uhr elf
elf uhr elf
The Cologne Carnival in photo works by German photographers Theodor BARTH, Ute BEHREND, Thekla EHLING, Dirk GEBHARDT, Matthias JUNG, David KLAMMER, Frederic LEZMI, Nadine PREISS and Wolfgang ZURBORN.
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BEHREND, Ute - Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies
BEHREND, Ute - Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies
'Girls, Some Boys and Other Cookies' by Ute BEHREND reflects the attitude towards life in the 1990s. From babies with their toys to little girls with their self-confidence, big girls with their pubescent insecurities and adult women with their role plays.
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BEHREND, Ute - Zimmerpflanzen
BEHREND, Ute - Zimmerpflanzen
Houseplants combined with portraits and still lifes. The specific view of everyday life enables Ute BEHREND to find ever new pictorial inventions and surprising combinations in her book 'Zimmerpflanzen' (Houseplants), which open up a new view of the world
25,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
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BEHREND, Ute - Cars and Cows. Reflections on the American Dream - SIGNED COPY!
BEHREND, Ute - Cars and Cows. Reflections on the American Dream - SIGNED COPY!
In her book 'Cars and Cows', published in a limited edition of 500 copies, Ute BEHREND brings together two discontinued models of the 'American Dream' that are associated with the good old days of the United States: classic cars and old cattle breeds.
45,00 € * Weight 0.8 kg
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BEHREND, Ute - Märchen / Fairy Tales
BEHREND, Ute - Märchen / Fairy Tales
In out-of-print book 'Fairy Tales', Ute BEHREND tells stories of girls & young women, everyday objects & houseplants, forests & lakes. From never posed images, she puts together couples that only at first glance seem to have nothing to do with each other.
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Awards
  • 2004: Toyota Photo Art Award;
    2019: 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award;
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
  • 1995: Sabine Schmidt Gallery, Cologne;

    1996: Sabine Schmidt Gallery, Cologne & Leckri Photography Group, Ghent;
    1999: Sabine Schmidt Gallery, Cologne;
    2000: Bodo Niemann Gallery, Berlin;
    2004: Sabine Schmidt Gallery, Cologne & Gallery Goethe-Institut Sofia;
    2005: Museum Ludwig, Cologne & Gallery 11, in Gruner Jahr Pressehaus; Hamburg;
    2007 & 2008: Sabine Schmidt Gallery, Cologne;
    2009: The Room Behind the Wall | Dr. Dormagen-Guffanti Foundation, Cologne;
    2012: Mermaids, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Alkersum/Föhr;
    2013: 'Zimmerpflanzen / Small Silent City', Kulturhaus Osterfeld e.V., Pforzheim & 'Conifer Club / Second Glance', Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation, Berlin;
    2014: 'Second Glance / Small Silent City', Galerie I'm Kreuzgang, Kloster Obermarchtal and at the FHV Galerie Dornbirn, Austria;
    2016: Singapore International Photography Festival;
    2018: 'Being a Child', Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr & 'Fassade und Tarnung', Scope Galerie, Hanover;
    2021: 'Double Dialogues', Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (with Ute MAHLER) & 'Back to Nature', Copenhagen Photofestival, Copenhagen;
    2023: 'Cowboys and Gods in the Garden', (with Allison Plass), Kunstraum ELSA, Bielefeld;

Group exhibitions (a selection)
  • 1992: Museum für Kunst - & Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund;

    1993: Museum für Fotografie, Helsinki;
    1994: Stadt u. Kreis - Sparkasse Pforzheim; Galerie Acud, Berlin; Stadtkunst, Cologne;
    1995: Museum für angewandte Kunst, Gera; Fototage Herten; Art Multiple, Düsseldorf;
    1996: Fotogalerie Kulturamt Friedrichshain, Berlin; LEKRI (Galerijgroep Fotografie), Gent; Galerie Christa Schübbe, Düsseldorf; 'Der soziale Blick', Art Frankfurt; Artforum Berlin; 'Stadt-an-Sichten', Otto-Nagel-Galerie, Berlin;
    1997: Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Gera; 'Some Kind of Heaven', South London Gallery, London; 'Someone Else with My Fingerprints', David Zwirner Gallery, New York; John Hansard Gallery, Southampten; 'The Garden of Eden', Noorderlicht  Photofestival, Groningen; 'Respekt', Glossy München;
    1998: ARCO Madrid; Kunsthalle Koblenz; Kunsthalle Hamburg; 'sunnyside', Galerie Crista Burger, München; Art Cologne;
    2000: ARCO Madrid & Art Cologne;
    2001: kunstKöln & Art Cologne;
    2002: 'european award for women photographers', Florence; 'Heimat', Kunsthaus Dresden; Städtisches Museum Saarbrücken; kunstKöln; Reykjavik Museum of Photography; Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden;
    2003: kunstKöln; Museumsmühle Küppersbusch, Duisburg; Art Cologne; Paris Photo;
    2004: 'Hotel Eden', Ludwigturm, Duisburg; '44 in 10', Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Köln; Sonderschau, KunstKöln;
    2006: 'Der Palast der Drachenkönigin', Galerie Claudia Delank, Köln; Galerie Burg, LE-Musberg; 'Märchen', DFA in Leinfelden;
    2007: Art Cologne; University of Texas, Dallas; 'Small Silent City', Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Köln; 'Quiet Afternoon' (with Anna Vogel), Galerie Claudia Delank, Köln;
    2008: 'Mistigris. Contemporary German Photography', Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne;
    2009: 'Welde Kunstpreis, Sparkasse Schwetzingen, Germany; 'Revision', Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne;
    2010: 'Shifting Realities. Photographie und ihre Wirklichkeiten', HALLE ZEHN / Cap Cologne e.V., Cologne;
    2012: 'Paris Photo', Au Grand Palais, Paris; 'views and windows', Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich; 'Kolga Award 2012', Tbilisi, Georgia; 'Mistigris. Contemporary German Photography', Tbilisi, Georgia;
    2014: Espy Photography Award 2014, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK; 'elf uhr elf. Fotografien zum Kölner Karneval', laif Galerie, Cologne;
    2016: 'Mit anderen Augen. Das Portrait in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie', Kunstmuseum Bonn sowie in der Kunsthalle Nürnberg und im Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nurenberg;
    2019: 'Anarchy', Helsinki Photo Festival; '100 Jahre GDL/DFA, Bärenmädchen', Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; 'Phantasie', Israel Photo Festival; Photobookshow, Fotofestival Athen; Photobookshow, Nida International Photography Symposium, Lithuania;
    2021: 'Menschenbilder', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg;
    2022: 'Natürlich Verbunden', Industriemuseum Chemnitz; 'Krapp Kamera', Soho Photo Gallery, New York City;
    2023: Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany; 'Das stille Post Projekt', Tuchfabrik, Trier, Germany; 'Draußen / Outside', Galerie Koschmieder, Berlin; 'Retrospective', Helsinki Photo Festival;

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