Annette Kelm (born 1975 in

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) is a German contemporary artist and photographer who is particularly known as a conceptual artist. Kelm uses medium or large format cameras in her work, creating still life and portraits. She favours using analog photography methods in her work. Kelm graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künst in

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in 2000, after which she moved to

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. She was awarded the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz in 2015.

Work

Kelm explores ideas through "baffling narratives" which use typology,

pattern A pattern is a regularity in the world, in human-made design, or in abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. A geometric pattern is a kind of pattern formed of geometric shapes and typically repeated l ...

s and the intersection of design and technology. Her work has been inspired by traditional photography genres such as the

still life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...

, landscapes and portraits. ''

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'' describes her work as playing with "watered-down

semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...

Exhibition History

* MoMA PS1 (''The Gold Standard'', 10/29/2006 - 01/15/2007) * CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco (''PASSENGERS: 1.6 ANNETTE KELM'', 02/06/2008 - 03/01/2008) * Kunsthalle Zürich (''Annette Kelm'', 01/24/2009 - 04/26/2009) * 54th Venice Biennale (06/04/2011 - 11/27/2011) * Museum of Modern Art (''New Photography 2013'', 09/14/2013 - 01/06/2014) * Whitney Museum of American Art (''Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner'', 11/20/2015 - 03/06/2016) * VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (''Annette Kelm,'' 05/11/2016 - 06/25/2016)

Honours and awards

* 1999 Kodak Young Photographers Award * 2004 Artist residency Heanavesi, Finland Working Grant for Fine Art, Hamburg * 2005 ART COLOGNE-Award for young art Working Grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds Travel-Grant Los Angeles * 2015 Camera Austria - Award for contemporary photography, Graz

Galleries

* Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA. * Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria. * Herald St Gallery, London, England. * Johann König Gallery, Berlin, Germany. * Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Collections

Annette Kelm's work has been collected by

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, Paris, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the

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, Germany, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

References

External links

MoMA

AIMIA , AGO Photography Prize
1975 births Living people Artists from Stuttgart German women artists {{Germany-artist-stub