Ute Behrend is a German artist, publisher, lecturer and editor, based in Cologne in Germany. She is the founder of Bummbumm books and member of the German Photography Academie (DFA) and the DGPH.
Behrend’s photographs and video installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many public collections, such as the Kasper König Collection, Sprengel Museum, Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Deichtorhallen Collection FC Gundlach, among others. Her work has been the subject of five monographs: Girls, some Boys and other Cookies (Scalo Publishers, 1996), Märchen / Fairy Tales ( Walter Koenig, Koeln, 2006), Zimmerpflanzen ( Snoeck, 2008), The last Year of Childhood (Powershovel Books, 2011), Bärenmädchen / Bear Girls (BummBumm Books, 2019).