Annette Kelm
Annette Kelm is a German contemporary artist and photographer who is particularly known as a conceptual artist. Kelm uses medium or large format cameras in her work, creating still life and portraits. She favours using analog photography methods in her work.
Kelm graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künst in Hamburg in 2000, after which she moved to Berlin. She was awarded the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz in 2015.
Work
Kelm explores ideas through "baffling narratives" which use typology, patterns and the intersection of design and technology. Her work has been inspired by traditional photography genres such as the still life, landscapes and portraits. The [New York Times] describes her work as playing with "watered-down semiotics."Exhibition History
- MoMA PS1
- CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco
- Kunsthalle Zürich
- 54th Venice Biennale
- Museum of Modern Art
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Honours and awards
- 1999 Kodak Young Photographers Award
- 2004 Artist residency Heanavesi, Finland Working Grant for Fine Art, Hamburg
- 2005 ART COLOGNE-Award for young art Working Grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds Travel-Grant Los Angeles
- 2015 Camera Austria - Award for contemporary photography, Graz
Galleries
- Esther Shipper Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
- Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA.
- Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria.
- Herald St Gallery, London, England.
- Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
- Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy.