Christa Frieda Vogel is a German

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who lives and works in

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, Germany. She has published several

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s and presented her work in national and international exhibitions.

Biography

Christa Frieda Vogel was born in 1960 in

Meppen Meppen (; Northern Low Saxon: ''Möppen'') is a town in and the seat of the Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany, at the confluence of the Ems (river), Ems, Hase, and Nordradde rivers and the Dortmund–Ems Canal (DEK). The name stems from t ...

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, and studied

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from 1982 to 1988 at what is now the

Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

. While working as a

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she acquired a

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(PPLA, CVFR, KFB). In 2000 she became a founding member of the Fotoschule am Schiffbauerdamm and worked as a curator and exhibition manager at the Postfuhramt

. Travels have led her to

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and

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, as well as to

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and

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. In Turkey she lived and worked as a photographer and

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from 2009 to 2013. In 2013 she moved back to

Works

Vogel's

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is mostly documentary: In the series (and book) ''Georgien'' (

) she photographed people as if they were their own monuments. Her pictorial strategy rests, both in color and black and white images, on the

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and the central figure. For her exhibition and book project ''Artistanbul'' Vogel portrayed 34 fine artists, male and female, of three generations in Istanbul and accompanied them to their favourite places. During the two years of work on this series she established the gallery project ''

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House of Art'' in

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which hosts both artists from Berlin and Istanbul. It was there where Vogel presented in 2011 her ''Artistanbul''-series flanked by works of the portrayed, among them

Ara Güler Ara Güler ( hy, Արա ԿիւլԷր; 16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers ...

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, Mahmut Celayir, Erdoğan Zumrutoğlu and Hande Varsat. Those of Vogel's works which are not primarily documentary, like the polaroids of "Erotica", approach the subjects also by means of close-up and blur. Similar strategies are employed within the "Blaues Wunder" series (Blue Miracle) as a study of the (under-)water world in general whilst the b/w series ''Jellyfish'' focuses in particular on the bizarre bodies of the gelatinous creatures.

Publications

* ''Einblicke.'' B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlin 2003, * ''Georgien. Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit'' (introductory notes by Alexander Kartosia and Thomas Roth), Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008, * ''Artistanbul: Contemporary Artists Present Their Favourite Places.'' Seltmann + Söhne, Lüdenscheid 2011 und 2013, (also exhibition catalogue with an essay by Johannes Odenthal)

Exhibitions (selection)

* 2006 National Gallery

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project * 2007 Caravansary Museum

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, group exhibition * 2007

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Haus,

: ''Portraits und Landschaften'' (''Portraits and Landscapes''), group exhibition * 2008 Art Fair Cologne: ''Georgienfotos'' (''Photos of

'') and book presentation * 2008 Foundation Sergej Mawritzki,

, book presentation and exhibition: ''Georgien, Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit'' (''

: An Encounter with Origin and Time'') * 2009 Gallery Brockstedt,

: ''Figur in der Landschaft'' (''Figure in a Landscape''), with Ernst Baumeister * 2010 Gallery Tammen,

: ''Nudes'', polaroid photos, group exhibition * 2011 Gallery Arte,

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: ''

Portrait'', group exhibition * 2011

House of Art in

, ''Artistanbul'', book presentation and exhibition * 2011 Galeriartist, Berlin: ''Artistanbul'', book presentation and exhibitionCfr
Pinar Abut, ''Erzählt mir über eure Stadt! Ein Bildband zeigt türkische Kunstschaffende im Porträt und deren Lieblingsplätze in Istanbul'' (review)
in '' DIE WELT kompakt'', 22 November 2011.

References

External links

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''Artistanbul'' on Galata-House-of-Art, Istanbul
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