Andrea Grützner

Andrea Grützner (*1984, Pirna) is a Berlin based artist and photographer. Andrea‘s medium is photography, but her pictures seem to shift between different media like photography, painting and collage. Her interests involve the perception of space, historic and memorial structures, visual irritation, the familiar and at the same time unfamiliar.

Andrea Grützner was awarded her Master of Arts degree in photography by the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in 2014. Her pictures have been featured at festivals and in solo and group shows around the world.

Andrea Grützner received both the "PhotoVision Sponsorship Award" and the "Source Cord Prize" in 2014, as well as the "LEAD Award" (silver) in 2015. She was a winner of "gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie prize" in 2014/2015 and a FOAM Talent 2016. She recently published the photo book “das Eck” (by Kerber Verlag in March 2016), which was developed during the course of her scholarship "Koblenzer Stadtfotografin 2015". Born in Pirna/Germany in 1984, Andrea Grützner is currently based in Berlin. Here, she is a member of the photography collective "exposure twelve".

education

2010-2014 MA Photography, FH Bielefeld (Prof. Katharina Bosse; Prof. Dr. Kirsten Wagner)
2005-2009 BA Communication Design, HTWG Konstanz (Prof. Valentin Wormbs, Dipl. Ing. Philipp Finkbeiner)
workshops with Eva Leitolf, ISSP Summerschool Workshop with Federico Clavarino

solo exhibitions
Tanztee and Erbgericht at Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Ausstralia, 2017
Erbgericht, Tanztee, das Eck at Galerie Rundgänger, Frankfurt/Main, 2017
zu Gast at Museum Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, 2017
das Eck at Ter Hell Haus, add art, Hamburg, 2016
Erbgericht at Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA, 2016
Erbgericht, Kunstverein Lüneburg, 2016
Erbgericht, Galerie Robert Morat, Berlin, 2016
Das Eck, Koblenzer Stadtfotografin 2015, Galerie Sparkasse Koblenz, Germany, 2016
Erbgericht, Walzwerk Null, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016
Tanztee im Erbgericht, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, Kabinett, Koblenz, Germany, 2016
Gastfreund, at Galerie COUCOU, Kassel, Germany, 2015

group exhibitions:

2017

fairs: AIPAD New York City with Julie Saul Gallery; PhotoLondon with Robert Morat Galerie; CollectiveDesignFair New York City with Julie Saul Gallery
Foam talent group show, Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London (UK)
Foam talent group show, Red Hook Labs, New York
Architecture and Abstraction, 68projects (Galerie Kornfeld), Berlin

2016

Wings of Fantasy - New European Photography, Festival Beijing Photo/ Millennium Monument, curated by Huang Wen and
Ruth Eichhorn, Beijing, China
Foam Talent 2016, Unseen Photo Fair at the Westergasterrein area, Amsterdam
Gegenspieler, Marta Herford, Germany
Foam Talent 2016, Gallery Mercatorplein, Amsterdam
ISSP 2016 Exhibition, Kuldīga, Latvia
PhotoLondon, Robert Morat Gallery, London
Pfalzpreis für Bildende Kunst 2016, Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Germany
How to structure things in space, with Torsten Schumann, project space exp12/exposure twelve, Berlin, Germany
Erbgericht at Clervaux cité de l'image, Luxembourg

2015

Samowar, Galerie Coucou, Kassel, Germany
heimspiel 6, gute aussichten, Neustadt/Weinstraße, Germany
5 Years exposure twelve, Berlin
Tanztee at FIF Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Erbgericht at Clervaux cité de l'image, Luxembourg
Erbgericht at unseen, represented by Robert Morat, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Visual Leader 2015, LEAD Awards, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
raumarbeiten
Exhibition at Sijac Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Alles glitzert, alles glänzt - Blue light is scattered, Apartimentum, Hamburg, Germany
Keep Your Eyes Peeled, aff-gallery, Berlin
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Goethe-Institut Mexiko, Mexico City
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Goethe-Institut Tallinn, Estonia
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Goethe-Institut Nicosia, Zypern
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Goethe-Institut Washington DC, USA
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Koblenz, Germany
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

2014

gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, Marta Herford
Brighton Photo Fringe,
http://www.photofringe.org/bpf14/open14-outdoor-exhibition
Raum21 stellt aus - №1 Über Erinnerung, Alte Stadtbibliothek Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Schau-Festival, Dortmunder U, Dortmund
„Reflexion – Ästhetische Referenzen / Fünf Positionen“, Kunstarchiv Darmstadt
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie "Reflexion – Ästhetische Referenzen", Kunstarchiv, 25.-27. April 2014
The Space Beyond, Camera Club New York (CCNY), New York. Curated by Katharina Bosse. You can order our exhibition catalog The space beyond here!
Werkschau, Bielefeld

awards

FOAM Talent 2016
nominated for Pfalzpreis Kunst,Nachwuchspreis, 2016
Stipendium/scholarship: Koblenzer Stadtfotograf 2015
Lead Awards 2015. Kategorie Architektur- und Stillleben: SILBER
Geo Nr. 07/ 2014
Erbgericht / Die Farben der Erinnerung
Source-Cord Prize 2014, second prize with 'Erbgericht'.Cordprize and Source
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche fotografie
Winner of PhotoVision 2014, sponsorship award of Photographie Magazin with 'Erbgericht'

selected publications

Foam Talent 2016
Gegenspieler, exhibition catalog, Marta Herford, 2016
The Plantation Journal 5, Sculptural Corners, 2016
Das Eck, book, Koblenzer Stadtfotograf 2015, kerber Verlag, 2016
Oma Heidi, Oma Heidis Kochbiografie, Text & concept: Christina Schmid, photography: Andrea Grützner, shortlist "Schönste deutsche Bücher 2016".
gute aussichten 2014/2015 - junge deutsche Fotografie, catalogue
SOURCE: Issue 80, Autumn, 2014 with portfolio of Source-Cord Prize Winners http://www.source.ie/archive/issue80/is80editorial.php
GEO, Issue 7/July, Der andere Blick, Portfolio Erbgericht, 2014
The space beyond, exhibition catalog, 2014
Katalog des SCHAU-Festivals, 2014
Katalog der Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, 2014
Magazin DER GREIF, 2012 & 2013:
selected texts about my work

GAVIN MURPHY (english): Andrea Gruetzner 'Erbgericht' (Source Photographic Review, Autumn 2014, Issue 80)
ISA KÖHLER (deutsch):Andrea Grützner 'Erbgericht' (at Walzwerk Null, Düsseldorf, 2016)
GEO/Peter Hamburger (deutsch):in GEO Magazin Nr. 07/14, Portfolio "der andere Blick"
ANNICK MEYER, Clervaux - cité de l'image (engl.francais,deutsch): Erbgericht at Clervaux - cité de l'image
ANJA HORSTMANN (deutsch): Andrea Grützner 'das Eck' (in 'das Eck', book, published by kerber verlag, 2016).
DANIEL NEUGEBAUER (english): Beyond Irony - A brief inquiry into contemporary Romanticism (about exhibition 'the space beyond', book, self published by Katharina Bosse, 2014)
KATHARINA BOSSE (english): the space beyond (about exhibition 'the space beyond', book, self published by Katharina Bosse, 2014)
selected online features

Video portrait on GEO, 2014/2015
Great feature on Grafik., 13 March 2015
Tanztee on It's Nice That, 2 Nov 2014
Erbgericht on booooooom, 10 Oct 2014
Erbgericht on bleek magazine, 10 July 2014
Artist Feature and Guest Blog at Der Greif

research and professional experience

freelancing visual artist, photographer, teacher and printer
2012 - 2014: scientific assistant at the research project "Structure Images. To the graphical method in art, design, and science", FH Bielefeld; Organizer of the 33th Bielefelder Fotosymposium: "Strukturbilder zur grafischen Methode"
2011 - 2012: scientific assistant, Research Group "Photography and Media", FH Bielefeld
2011: organizer of international photosymposium „The Other Side“, (31. Bielefelder Fotosymposium) Bielefeld together with Simon Sola Holischka, Prof. Roman Bezjak, Horst Kloever
part of exposure twelve: Berlin collective of photographers aiming to develop contemporary photography through a space for meetings and exchange.

talks (selection)

Talk at ITWM, Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik, Reihe "Tellerrand", 2016
Talk at Lette-Verein Berlin, together with Sara-Lena Maierhofer, 2015
Talk at 34. Bielefelder Fotosymposium, 28 Nov 2014
Artist-Talk at Schau-Festival, Dortmund, 2014
Deutsche Fotografische Akademie presentation of the work "Erbgericht" as one of Katharina Bosses alumnistudents, Stuttgart, 2014
Group-Artist-Talk with Katharina Bosse, Alexander Gehring and Paula Winkler at Camera Club New York