Monika Kropshofer (born 14 November 1952 in
Neuwied) is a German painter and photographer. Since the middle of the year 2000 Kropshofer has gained renown through her large-format painted landscape and architecture photographs which were created as a result of her many work journeys and stays in Europe, Africa und Asia.
Kropshofer began her
autodidactic artistic training by experimenting with various picture material and bases. From the beginning, she turned her main attention to the combination of various media, especially photography and painting. Kropshofer projects landscape and architecture photographs[2] onto the most varied kinds of bases (glass, sheets of plastic, photographic paper, window blinds, plastic foils) and subsequently works on them with paint.[3][4][5] Here, Kropshofer does without any additional digital picture processing.[6][7] The photographs are taken during the artist's regular working trips and stays in Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.[8] Since the mid-2000s, the works have become larger in format and more far-reaching and from now on, extensive
installations[9] and objects were also created.
Kropshofer's artistic discussion always turns around the formal dialogue between the object depicted and the media used.[10] Her method for doing this is the construction and deconstruction of spatiality, depending on each picture basis and the revelation of the appropriateness of the structures in landscape and
architecture with the help of painting. Thus her works are in the tradition of photography's very own discourse, the question of reproduction and reality, fiction and real life.[11][12][13][14][15]
Changing Dream Streams, catalogue of the exhibition of the same title by the two artists Monika Kropshofer and Elisabeth Bergner, Boppard, 2012,
ISBN978-3-00-038410-3.
Interventionen: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the State Representation of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin, 2011,
ISBN978-3-00-033741-3.
Back to basics: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the Museum Boppard, Boppard, 2015,
ISBN978-3-00-050867-7.
Architekturfotografie als Ausstellungsarchitektur, in: GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesmuseum Mainz (Ed.): bauhaus - form und reform, E.A. Seemann-Verlag, Mainz und Leipzig 2019,
ISBN978-3-86502-426-8.
Dialogo tra le antitesi, catalogue of the exhibition of Museum Crocetti, Rome, Italy, 2021.
^Heinz Höfchen: Pas de deux: Art and Nature. Elisabeth Bergner and Monika Kropshofer in Dialogue. In: Changing Dream Streams, Catalogue of the Exhibition of the same Title in Bingen 2012 und Krems 2013, p. 21.
Monika Kropshofer (born 14 November 1952 in
Neuwied) is a German painter and photographer. Since the middle of the year 2000 Kropshofer has gained renown through her large-format painted landscape and architecture photographs which were created as a result of her many work journeys and stays in Europe, Africa und Asia.
Kropshofer began her
autodidactic artistic training by experimenting with various picture material and bases. From the beginning, she turned her main attention to the combination of various media, especially photography and painting. Kropshofer projects landscape and architecture photographs[2] onto the most varied kinds of bases (glass, sheets of plastic, photographic paper, window blinds, plastic foils) and subsequently works on them with paint.[3][4][5] Here, Kropshofer does without any additional digital picture processing.[6][7] The photographs are taken during the artist's regular working trips and stays in Europe, Africa and South-East Asia.[8] Since the mid-2000s, the works have become larger in format and more far-reaching and from now on, extensive
installations[9] and objects were also created.
Kropshofer's artistic discussion always turns around the formal dialogue between the object depicted and the media used.[10] Her method for doing this is the construction and deconstruction of spatiality, depending on each picture basis and the revelation of the appropriateness of the structures in landscape and
architecture with the help of painting. Thus her works are in the tradition of photography's very own discourse, the question of reproduction and reality, fiction and real life.[11][12][13][14][15]
Changing Dream Streams, catalogue of the exhibition of the same title by the two artists Monika Kropshofer and Elisabeth Bergner, Boppard, 2012,
ISBN978-3-00-038410-3.
Interventionen: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the State Representation of the Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin, 2011,
ISBN978-3-00-033741-3.
Back to basics: catalogue of the exhibition of the same title at the Museum Boppard, Boppard, 2015,
ISBN978-3-00-050867-7.
Architekturfotografie als Ausstellungsarchitektur, in: GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz, Landesmuseum Mainz (Ed.): bauhaus - form und reform, E.A. Seemann-Verlag, Mainz und Leipzig 2019,
ISBN978-3-86502-426-8.
Dialogo tra le antitesi, catalogue of the exhibition of Museum Crocetti, Rome, Italy, 2021.
^Heinz Höfchen: Pas de deux: Art and Nature. Elisabeth Bergner and Monika Kropshofer in Dialogue. In: Changing Dream Streams, Catalogue of the Exhibition of the same Title in Bingen 2012 und Krems 2013, p. 21.