The artist's work questions traditional concepts of gender,[4] culture,[5] and normality; capturing both specific social spaces and the unique people who live in them. Sieverding's work primarily analyses the relationship between her subjects- individuals who range from women in traditional Islamic dress to drag queens,[6] performance actors[7] and the Berlin club scene-[8] to their bodies. In recent years the artist has added to her work the depiction of equally unique architecture which is portrayed as means of being a specific social space.[7] Continuously throughout the artist's work, materiality plays a significant role: be it elements of concrete and glass in Close to Concrete I and II, hair in To The Crowned And Conquering Child or textiles as in the photo series Text I-VI.[9] In cooperation with Orson Sieverding, the artist develops electronic soundscapes for her installations which when projected onto her protagonists transform into urban echoes.[9]
Grants
Sieverding has won an art grant from the
Senate of Berlin twice, in 2008 and 2014.[10] In 2011 Sieverding was invited as an artist in residence at the
Meet Factory in
Prague, the Maumaus in
Lisbon, and as a visiting lecturer at the International Art Academy in
Ramallah, Palestine[5] where she received an art grant from the Anna Lindh Foundation.[11] Today the artist resides and works in
Berlin.[5]
Major solo exhibitions
2018/2019: "Bodies that matter", knustxkunz+, München
2018: "Gustav Peichl - 15 Bauten zum 90sten", MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien[12]
2016: "THE EPIC", NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen[13]
2015: "ARENA", at Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin[14]
2014: "GRANDS ENSEMBLES" at BOX21 Freiraum für Kultur, Berlin[15]
2012: "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at BRAENNEN, Berlin[16]
2012 "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE" at Galerie Kostka, Prague[17]
2011: "CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon[18]
2010: "Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[19]
The artist's work questions traditional concepts of gender,[4] culture,[5] and normality; capturing both specific social spaces and the unique people who live in them. Sieverding's work primarily analyses the relationship between her subjects- individuals who range from women in traditional Islamic dress to drag queens,[6] performance actors[7] and the Berlin club scene-[8] to their bodies. In recent years the artist has added to her work the depiction of equally unique architecture which is portrayed as means of being a specific social space.[7] Continuously throughout the artist's work, materiality plays a significant role: be it elements of concrete and glass in Close to Concrete I and II, hair in To The Crowned And Conquering Child or textiles as in the photo series Text I-VI.[9] In cooperation with Orson Sieverding, the artist develops electronic soundscapes for her installations which when projected onto her protagonists transform into urban echoes.[9]
Grants
Sieverding has won an art grant from the
Senate of Berlin twice, in 2008 and 2014.[10] In 2011 Sieverding was invited as an artist in residence at the
Meet Factory in
Prague, the Maumaus in
Lisbon, and as a visiting lecturer at the International Art Academy in
Ramallah, Palestine[5] where she received an art grant from the Anna Lindh Foundation.[11] Today the artist resides and works in
Berlin.[5]
Major solo exhibitions
2018/2019: "Bodies that matter", knustxkunz+, München
2018: "Gustav Peichl - 15 Bauten zum 90sten", MAK – Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Wien[12]
2016: "THE EPIC", NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen[13]
2015: "ARENA", at Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin[14]
2014: "GRANDS ENSEMBLES" at BOX21 Freiraum für Kultur, Berlin[15]
2012: "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at BRAENNEN, Berlin[16]
2012 "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE" at Galerie Kostka, Prague[17]
2011: "CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon[18]
2010: "Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin[19]