Benutzer:Marc Barbey at Collection Regard/Barbara Wolff
Barbara Wolff (*1951 in Kyritz) is a german photographer and a member of the BBK Berlin and the Gedok Munich. Barbara Wolff lives and works in Berlin. Her work is present in numerous private collections.
Biography
Barbara Wolff, born in 1951 in Kyritz in the Prignitz region of the state of Brandenburg, is the daughter of the photographer Werner Hinz. After completing high school she was trained as a photographer in her father’s photography business and then went on to study photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. After her graduation she worked as a freelance illustrator, photographer, and designer. During this period her style is defined by photographic collages and montages. Between 1982 and 1985 she lived in the village of Sechzehneichen in Brandenburg, where she pursued a personal, long term project about the village and its inhabitants. After applying to leave East Germany, Barbara Wolff moved to West Germany in 1985 and settled in Munich. Numerous trips to and stays in other countries followed, enabling her to discover places where she previously would not have been able to travel - such as Guatemala, Paris, and Vietnam. Since 1989 Wolff has worked as a freelance photographer and designer for the Linhof camera manufacturer in Munich. She taught Visual Communication and Photography at the Designschule München for twelve years (1998-2011). In the context of further freelance work, she has overseen the set-up and establishment of photographic studios in countries such as Brazil and Yemen, and she has held lectures on photography in China, Finland, and Vietnam. Barbara Wolff lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1978 Collagen, Montagen, Frottagen, exhibiton at the gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig 1978
- 1982 Grafik, Fotografie, Illustration, Heimatmuseum Wusterhausen / Dosse
- 2005 Ans Meer!, Lübeck–Travemünde
- 2006 Horizonte, gallery Villa Ruh, Zingst
- 2007 Real – sortiert – fingiert, Linhof gallery Munich
- 2009 Ans Meer! (2) Schönberg, St. Laurentiuskirche
- 2009 Hanoi – Moving, gallery Gedokmuc, Munich
- 2011 Ghostwriter, Wegemuseum Wusterhausen, Transit, Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
- 2012 Konsum, Kunst offen, Wredenhagen
- 2014 I was here! , Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
- 2017 In One´s Own Account, Collection Regard, Berlin
Stays abroad
- 1999 Jemen, development of a digital photographic studio
- 2006 art academy Imatra, Finland, guest lecturer project: „Rise and shine”
- 2007 People´s Republic of China, lectures on german photography and artistic projects
- 2008 Workshop „Zeitreise” and lectures on german photography, Goetheinstitut Hanoi, Vietnam
- 2012 Havanna, project „Straßenecken”
- 2017 People´s Republic of China, lectures on german photography
Publications (selection)
- Der fotografische Vorspann in Film und Fernsehen, in: Fotografie, VEB publisher Fotokino, Leipzig, 1974
- Montage als Illustration, in: Fotografie, VEB publisher Fotokino, Leipzig, 1976
- Illustration for the magazine "Temperamente”, 1/76 (first edition), publisher Neues Leben, Berlin
- Illustrations for the magazine „Neues Leben”, 6/77, Berlin, 1977
- magazine „Für Dich”, 25/1977, berlin publishing house, Berlin, 1977
- Collagen, Montagen, Frottagen von Künstlern der DDR, catalogue No. 8, exhibition gallery at Sachsenplatz, Leipzig, 1978
- Collage backcover for the magazine „Deine Gesundheit", publisher Volk und Gesundheit Berlin, 1980
- DDR-Fotos: Bilder vom Nachbarn, in: Foto- Hobbylabor, publisher Foto-Zeitschriften, Stuttgart, 1987
- Das Linhof Kamera Buch, Gert Schlegel/ Hans Bluth, Barbara Wolff/ Anton Brandl photography, Barbara Wolff Layout, publisher Photo Technik International, Munich, 1990 / re-release 2000(honored with the Kodak Fotobuchpreis 1990)
- Apa-Guide „Das neue Deutschland” Text- und Fotobeiträge, RV Reise- und Verkehrsverlag, Berlin- Gütersloh-Munich-Stuttgart, 1991
- „Reflexionen” – Photographien in „Die Villa Stuck München” Bayrische Vereinsbank, Munich 1992
- Image Circle (concept, layout, text, photography, editor Peter Bauernschmid, Munich 2002
- “In One´s Own Account”, exhibition catalogue from the Collection Regard, Berlin 2017
