Ute Schendel
Analog Photography 1968-2000. Vintage and Masterprints only
Press Release
/Galerie Gilla Loercher is very pleased to present a solo exhibition by photographer Ute Schendel (born 1948). The artist has selected a large number of analog photographs (vintage and master prints) from her archive, covering the period from 1968 to 2000. The motifs include architecture, portraits, landscapes, theater, reportage, and still lifes.
The opening is on Friday 7 November as of 7pm. You and your friends are warmly invited.
For fifty years, Ute Schendel has preferred to work with black-and-white photography. She began her career in the 1970s as a theater and portrait photographer at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, the Städtische Bühnen Essen, and the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main, accompanying productions by theater directors such as Einar Schleef, Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Samuel Beckett, Patrice Chéreau und Jan Fabre. Her extensive image archive contains portraits of actors, directors, photographers, painters, writers, and other creative artists. Ute Schendel has also created a large body of work in the field of landscape photography over the past decades.
The photographer Ute Schendel, born in East Berlin (D) in 1948, lives and works in Basel (CH). She studied Photography in Berlin and Hamburg (D). From 2000 to 2003 Ute Schendel has been visiting professor in the field of visual communications at Fachhochschule Mainz/ University of Applied Sciences (D).
Her photographic work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in art institutions and galleries such as Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria (CH), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt (D), Kunstmuseum Olten (CH), Landesmuseum Mainz (D), Kunstverein Hattingen (D), Kunstverein Schallstadt (D), Kunsthaus Potsdam (D), Galerie Karin Sutter, Basel (CH), Galerie Hutter und Wirth, Basel (CH), Galerie Mesmer, Basel (CH), Galerie Lévy Gorvy Rumbler, Zürich (CH), Galerie Gilla Loercher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
The opening is on Friday 7 November as of 7pm. You and your friends are warmly invited.
For fifty years, Ute Schendel has preferred to work with black-and-white photography. She began her career in the 1970s as a theater and portrait photographer at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, the Städtische Bühnen Essen, and the Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main, accompanying productions by theater directors such as Einar Schleef, Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Samuel Beckett, Patrice Chéreau und Jan Fabre. Her extensive image archive contains portraits of actors, directors, photographers, painters, writers, and other creative artists. Ute Schendel has also created a large body of work in the field of landscape photography over the past decades.
The photographer Ute Schendel, born in East Berlin (D) in 1948, lives and works in Basel (CH). She studied Photography in Berlin and Hamburg (D). From 2000 to 2003 Ute Schendel has been visiting professor in the field of visual communications at Fachhochschule Mainz/ University of Applied Sciences (D).
Her photographic work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in art institutions and galleries such as Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria (CH), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt (D), Kunstmuseum Olten (CH), Landesmuseum Mainz (D), Kunstverein Hattingen (D), Kunstverein Schallstadt (D), Kunsthaus Potsdam (D), Galerie Karin Sutter, Basel (CH), Galerie Hutter und Wirth, Basel (CH), Galerie Mesmer, Basel (CH), Galerie Lévy Gorvy Rumbler, Zürich (CH), Galerie Gilla Loercher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D)
