Born 1952 in Chicago, USA.
Study of Psychology at Northwestern, Harvard and Cornell Universities (1970-1975); Art and Photography study at Art Institute of Chicago (1975-1978) and Kassel University, Germany (1981-1984). Work at George Eastman House, Rochester (1978-1981) and Rudolf Kicken Gallery, Cologne (1981- 1985). In 1990 became co-founder and curator of Prague House of Photography. In 1996 founded Odephil Editions, Prague. Important exhibitions include Arles, Bonn (1981), Frankfurt, NYC (1984), Stuttgart (1985), Amsterdam (1988), Cheb, Brno, Klatovy, Enschede (1988), Israel, Prague, Sobotka, Frankfurt (1999), Prague (2001), New York City, Olomouc, Bruntal, Chicago Art, Art Frankfurt (2002), Jihlava (2004), Prague (2006, 2007). Her work is in the collections of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Berlinische Galerie; BrooklyMuseum of Art; Charles University, Prague; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Myslbek Palace, Prague; Moravian Gallery, Brno; Musée Réattu, Arles; Eli Lemberger Museum of Photography, Israel; Museum of Contemporary Photograpy, Chicago; National Gallery of South Africa, Capetown; National Museum of Photography, Jindrichuv Hradec, Joan Flasch Special Collection, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Bratislava FotoFest; Polaroid Corporation Europe and numerous private collections. She won first prize at Bratislava Fotofestival
for Best Artist Book 2000 in Central and Eastern Europe. Lives and works as independent artist in Prague (1990-present).
Location: Tobacco Warehouse
A Polaroid collection presented by L’Atelier Reflexe ( France ) and Cobertura photo ( Spain )
Curated by : Véronique Bourgoin
Magic Trick is a collection of Polaroid pictures gathered by Véronique Bourgoin, a French artist and director of l’Atelier Reflexe, founded in 1994 in Montreuil-Sous-Bois (Paris). This collection shows a selection of pictures taken by European photographers who use Polaroid not as a specialty, but as a way to experiment through a unique and instant medium. It comprises works by experienced artists as well as anonymous photographs. It also presents pictures taken by young French and Spanish photographers selected by l’Atelier Reflexe and Cobertura Photo, art institutes which support young photographers throughout...
The exhibition Czech Fundamental is organized by gallery Photo Edition Berlin in collaboration with Museo di Roma in Trastevere and Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia, Rome. The exhibit engages the viewer in a dialogue between old and new - Czech photography from the very beginnings of the avant-garde in the 1920s, to a broad selection of contemporary artists whose works exhibit an individual, authorial or experimental approach to the medium. Featured are photographs fundamental to the development of a specifically Czech vision - Frantisek Drtikol's nudes, Jaroslav Rossler's and Jaromir Funke's contemplative compositions, surreal arrangements by Vaclav Zykmund and Josef Sudek's poetic still-lifes. The exhibition presents Constructivism, Surrealism and New Objectivity from 1920 - 1945. The second section pr...
Magic Trick is est une exposition de polaroid, à l'occasion du III festival de fotografia SEVILLA FOTO.
Avec : Antoine d’Agata, Veronique Bourgoin, JH Engström, Martin Kippenberger, Nina Korhonen, Suzanne Pastor, Juli Susin
Atelier Reflexe: Manuela Bohme, Thomas Brosset, Sophie Carlier,Josquin Gouilly Frossard, Sandra Schmalz, Margot Wallard Cobertura Photo: Rodrido Gomez Reina Alberto Rojas Maza
Collections anonymes: Brown Family Collection, Carlier Collection, Lumière des Roses Collection, Willard Morgan Colletion, Silverbridge Colle
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“Magic trick” features a collection of Polaroid images from the works of Chinese and European photographers who do not specialize in this medium, but rather, use it as a tool of experimentation in photography - an instantaneous and single take approach. The selection includes well established as well as anonymous artists and young photographers, chosen by l’Atelier, an art institution that supports emerging international photographers.
At a time when digital photography has become the choice means of expression for amateurs and professional photographers alike, when great numbers of images can be collected on a virtual support, allowing for “home-made” prints to be made in a instant, one cannot but compare this technology with Polaroid, which is both its genitor and its o...