Katharina Bosse works on gender and biography based longterm projects through the use of portraiture, architecture and experimental photography. She uses analog darkroom photography as well as digital collages and enjoys collaborations with other artists. “A Portrait of the Artist as a young Mother” on art and motherhood was published in 2011, and “Thingstätten” on the problematic heritage of open-air theaters from the Nazi era in 2020 (2nd ed 2021).
Katharina Bosse was born in Turku, Finland in 1968 and grew up in Montreal, Canada and Kirchzarten, Germany. After living in New York from the mid-90s for almost a decade, she moved back to Germany in 2003, making art, raising children and teaching as professor for photography in Bielefeld, Germany. Her work is in the collections of the MoMA and Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and has been published by magazines including The New Yorker, Spin, Geo, Der Spiegel and the New York Times Magazine.
Katharina Bosse is actively working on creating more visibility for female identifying photographers through curating and publishing. She is a member of femxphotographers.org and runs the curatorial programme at the the project gallery “Elsa” in Bielefeld; Germany.
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Recent Shows
2024 Intérieurs, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2023 Thingstätten, (curated) Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York
2023 All Roads are open, (co-curated) Kunstforum Hermann-Stenner, Bielefeld, Germany
2023 Family Affairs, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Germany
2022 Mettre au Monde, Centre d’art contemporain l’ar[T]senal, Dreux, France
2022 Female View, Museum Schloß Moyland, Germany
2021 Family Affairs, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2021 A view of the collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2021 An American Night, Photofestival Israel
2017 Doing Identity, from the Reydan Weiss Colllection, Art Museum Bochum
2017 Et Dieu crea la Femme, Maison Guerlain, Paris
2016 With Different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography
The Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, and Kunsthalle Nuremberg
2015 When Man Falls, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2014 Queensize, Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection, Berlin
2014 Si on n’a pas vu le Bonheur…, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2011 DZ Bank art collection: HEREIN !, Frankfurt
2011The Collector’s guide to new Art Photography vol 2,Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2010/11 elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2010 Felicitá, Centre PasquArt, Bienne
2010 Gabriele Münter Preis 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Frauenmuseum, Bonn
2010Do or Die – Auf Leben und Tod The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
2009 Fashion Room, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
2009 Quelques Figures de Maternités, Galerie d’art du Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Aix-en-Provence
2008 Ad Absurdum, Museum MARTAa, Herford
2007 Internationale Photo Triennale Esslingen
2007 En Quête d’Identité, Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France
2006 Out of Context, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, New York
2006 Please Wait, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris
2004 Katharina Bosse, Aki Ikemura, Manuela Marques,Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York
2004 A Clear Vision,Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2003 Locating Intimacy,Camera Works, San Francisco
2003 Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Stadtgalerie Prag, Historisches Museum Berlin, House of Photography Moskau, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2003 Phantom of Desire,Neue Galerie Graz
2002 Life of the City, Photographs of New York from the Museum’s collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 Westworld, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2000 Seeing Double, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 New York Now 2000, Museum of the City of New York
2000 „Good Business is the Best Art“ 20 years of Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York
Books and Catalogues (Sel.)
Mind over Matter, Femxphotographers with Roula Seikaly, Hatje Cantz 2022
Thingstätten, (Ed. Katharina Bosse) 2021 Geymüller (2nd Ed) in German,
2020 Kerber (English Edition-Available in the US through D.A.P. )
The Body Issue, Femxphotographers.org with Elisabeth Biondi, Hatje Cantz 2020
With different Eyes – The Portrait in Contemporary Photography,Museum of Art Bonn, 2016
The Space beyond (Ed. K.Bosse),Camera Club of New York, 2014
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother, Filigranes, Paris, and Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2011
The Collector’s Guide to new Art Photography vol 2, Humble Arts, New York 2011
Gabriele Münter Preis 2010, Frauenmuseum Bonn, 2010
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2004
Photographie Plasticienne, LExtrême Contemporain, Éditions du Regard, Paris 2004
Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Deutsche Fotografie im 20.Jhd, Edition Braus 2004
Modern Contemporary, Art at MoMA since 1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004
New Burlesque, Editions Filigranes, Paris 2003, D.A.P., New York, 2004
Surface Tension, Monograph, Kruse, Hamburg 2000 (in the US distributed by D.A.P., March 2001)
Contemporary German Photography, Taschen, Köln, 1997
Signe,Galerie Lukas & Hoffmann, 1997
Awards and Grants (Sel.)
2021 CityArtists NRW Award
2021 Special Mention by the European Heritage Award for “Thingstätten” in the Category “Research”
2021 Neustart Kultur Kulturakteure Grant
2018 Kulturwerk VG BildKunst Grant Website “Thingstätten”
2012 Project Grant for „Thingstätten“„LWL Foundation“
2011 Project Grant for „Thingstätten“ from „Art Foundation NRW“
2010 Short List Gabriele Münter Award
2010 Project Grant for „Bordello Architecture“ from „VG Bild-Kunst“
2009 Publishing Grant „Foundation Kunstfonds“
2008 Prix “Lumiere”, Grand Prix International d’Images de Vevey
1998 Bronx Museum for the Arts “Artist in the Markeplace”
1997 Joop-Swart-Masterclass, World Press Photo Foundation, Rotterdam
1997 Agfa International Award for Young Photojournalism
1994 Kodak European Panorama of Young Professional Photography
1994 DAAD-Scholarship
1992 Kodak European Panorama of Young Professional Photography
Collections (Sel.)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
DZ Bank, Frankfurt
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Frankreich
FRAC Île-de-France
Le Centre national des arts plastiques
Collection F.C. Gundlach
Collection Henry Buhl
Gallery Representation
Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago