REGINE PETERSEN
*1976 in Hamburg, Germany // based in Hamburg, Germany
Murchison, 2015, Archival Pigment Print, 120 x 150 cm
DE
Regine Petersens Arbeiten befinden sich an der Schnittstelle von Fotografie, Recherche und Text. In den oft langfristig angelegten Projekten werden konkrete historische Ereignisse im Spannungsfeld ihrer etablierten und vernachlässigten Erzählungen untersucht. Unterschiedliche Materialien – wie eigene Fotografien, Archivmaterial, literarische Versatzstücke – werden zusammen getragen und in eine neue narrative Struktur überführt. Petersens Interesse gilt hierbei komplexen und widersprüchlichen Perspektiven auf die Ereignisse, so wie dem Sichtbarmachen verborgener Themen und Schicksale. Im dialektischen Bezug zur Gegenwart wird das Verhältnis von Erinnerung, Geschichte und Repräsentation reflektiert und die Fotografie als Werkzeug ideologischer Prozesse hinterfragt.
EN
Regine Petersen’s practice is located at the intersection of photography and text. In her work she engages with historical events at the tension of their established and neglected narratives, using a variety of materials - her own photographs, archival imagery, literature - forming new relations. She is particularly interested in contradictory perspectives and making hidden histories visible. In dialectical correlation to the present, her work questions the relationship between memory, history, storytelling and representation, while challenging photography as a tool of ideological processes.
EXHIBITIONS
ABOUT THE ARTIST
EDUCATION
2009 MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London
2006 Diploma Communication Design / Photography, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 A Star like a Sword, JO VAN DE LOO, Munich
2018 Find a Fallen Star, Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory, JaipurPhoto, India
2016 Find a Fallen Star / Son of a God, Museum für Photographie, Brunswick, Germany
2015 The Indian Iron, JO VAN DE LOO, Munich, Germany — Find a Fallen Star, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands — Stars Fell on Alabama, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2013 Stars Fell on Alabama, POMO Gallery, Milan, Italy — Stars Fell on Alabama, SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
2012 Stars Fell on Alabama, JO VAN DE LOO, Munich, Germany — Stars Fell on Alabama, Parc des Ateliers, Rencontres d'Arles, France — Find a Fallen Star, B2 Institute, Oracle, USA
AWARDS / RECOGNITIONS
2019 Lishui Photography Festival Grand Award — 2018 International Cultural Exchange Bursary, India — 2017 Stiftungspreis Fotokunst, Finalist — 2016 Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse — 2015 German Photobook Award — 2014 Outset / Unseen Exhibition Fund — City of Hamburg Project Bursary for the Visual Arts — Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, Finalist — 2012 Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Bursary — Rencontres d'Arles Prix Decouverte, Finalist — City of Hamburg Scholarship for the Visual Arts — VG-Bildkunst Bursary — Albert Renger-Patzsch Award, Finalist — 2011 Artist in Residence, B2 Institute / Lunar & Planetary Lab, University of Arizona — 2010 National Media Museum Bursary — 4. Int. Marianne Brandt Contest, Finalist — reGeneration 2010/11 — 2009 Saatchi 4 New Sensations — Hoopers Gallery Award, Finalist — 2008 Prix Leica — Artist in Residence, School of Visual Arts, New York — Royal College of Art Bursary — 2007 Otto Steinert Award, Honorable mention — DAAD Scholarship for Graduates — 2006 gute aussichten - new german photography 2006/07
PUBLICATIONS
2023 PASSION PLAY by Regine Petersen, Travelogues: Joseph Krauskopf, Burton Holmes, published by THE ERISKAY CONNECTION 2020 image/con/text: Documentary Practices between Journalism, Art and Activism, Reimer Verlag — 2018 Teufelsstein, with Henning Rogge, self published — 2017 Contact Sheet #192, Light Work Annual 2017, text by Andreas Bedenbender — Firecrackers, text by Fiona Rogers et al. — 2016 Young Memories, exhibition catalogue, text by Alexandra Roussopoulos et al. — 2015 Find a Fallen Star, text by Natasha Christia, Kehrer Verlag — Find a Fallen Star, exhibition catalogue, Foam, text by Shoair Mavlian — XL Photography 5, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, text by Anne-Marie Beckmann et al. — Evidence, exhibition catalogue, QUAD / Format, text by Lars Willumeit et al. — 2014 A Brief History of Meteorite Falls, Textem Verlag — Unseen 2014, exhibition catalogue — 2013 Global Photography Europe, exhibition catalogue, text by Stefania Rössl et al. — SI Fest, exhibition catalogue, text by Massimo Sordi et al. — Stars Fell on Alabama, exhibition catalogue, text by Britta Peters — 2012 Session_12_Words, Am Nuden Da / Krabbesholm Hojskole — 1000 Words Photography, text by Lucy Davies — 2011 An Unknown Route: Denkbilder, Photographies #04, text by Olivier Richon — 2010 Poetry of the Functional, exhibition catalogue, Villa Arte — Teaching Photography, exhibition catalogue, Museum Folkwang — reGeneration2, exhibition catalogue, Musee d'Elysee — 2009 To Think About Things, self published — An Unknown Route: Denkbilder, Material #02 — 2008 Ok, But No Fighting, self published — 2006 gute aussichten, exhibition catalogue, text by Josefine Raab — Ein freies Land, exhibition catalogue
