katrin ribbe

Katrin Ribbe. *1974 in Bünde/ Westfalen (DE). Lives and works in Hannover (DE)

ARTIST STATEMENT
Questions on contemporary photography, its coming-to-life in virtual and physical space and its underlying poetic and political narratives are at the core of Katrin's artistic practice. – Originally trained as a photographer at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Katrin has been working as a portrait and editorial photographer nationally as well as internationally. Her portraiture has work won her several awards. From 2009-19 Katrin Ribbe joined the artistic directorial team at the Stately Theatre in Hanover. Her close collaboration with the in-house graphic design team has has been repeatedly awarded and proved influential over many years. – As an artist Katrin is mainly working with photography, film, object and installation. Some of her works can be found in the collection of Städtische Sammlungen Salzgitter and in private collections. – In 2014 Katrin was co-founder of the longterm multi-media reenactment project Aufstand aus der Küche (=Uprising from within the Kitchen) with fellow artists Mareike Hantschel, Lucie Ortmann, Demian Wohler. Aufstand aus der Küche deals with questions of kitchen politics and gender identity. The collaborative, participative project is meandering somewhere between salon, workshop and exhibition and is establishing an ever-growing archive of artworks from different fields within the fine arts. – Katrin is an Associate Lecturer in Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover (DE). – Katrin Ribbe likes to work in different contexts, in collaborative environments, cross-media and in long-term projects of hopefully surprising outcome.

SOLO SHOWS
2025 >> N.N., j3fm, Hanover (DE) • 2024 >> i use a frame like i would fell a tree, Quartier e.V. Hanover (DE) • 2022 >> i use a frame like i would fell a tree, Artists Unlimited Galerie, Bielefeld (DE) • 2020 >> Aufstand aus der Küche: Teil II_VerSammlung, Galerie Bohai Hanover (DE) • 2017 >> body of work, Scope Galerie at Ihmezentrum, Hannover (DE) >> b o s s, Forum Gestaltung, Magdeburg (DE) • 2016 >> b o s s , Scope Galerie, Hanover (DE) • 2002 deer family, Kinski, Berlin (DE)

GROUP SHOWS
2025 >> b o s s | working women, exhibition in public space, Hannover (DE) • 2024 >> Make Art No(t) War, Staatstheater Kassel (DE) • Festival KunstOffen, Kulturkolchose Lehsten (DE) • 2023 >> Von Lohn und Brot – Die Erinnerung der Arbeit, Städtisches Museum Salzgitter (DE) • Wohl oder Übel? Eine Ausstellung über das Morgen, KUNSTRAUM53 in collaboration with Literaturhaus St. Jacobi, Hildesheim (DE) • Zinnober, guest artist at Galerie Villa Sprengel with fellow artist Anna Eisermann, Hanover (DE) • 2022 >> The Art of Intervention, Institute for Gender Studies at Basel University in cooperation with the MoMA Basel, part of the exhibition fun feminism, Museum of Modern Art, Basel (CH) • Zuversichten, Salon Salder, Salzgitter (DE) • BritneyX – You Want A Piece of Me? Multi-media Arts Festival, Schauspiel Köln (DE) • 2021 >>The Inner Life of … , Goethe Institute Nancy (FR) • Rollenbilder – Die Erinnerung der Arbeit, Städtisches Museum Salzgitter (DE) • 2020 >> Arbeit am Apparat, Galerie im depot, Dortmund (DE) • While We Are Working, FAVORITEN FESTIVAL, Dortmund (DE) • 2019 >> Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe and Everything,Artists Unlimited Gallery, Bielefeld (DE) • BritneyX – Three Days about your feelings, your sex in our society, Schauspiel Köln (DE) • Writing Photographs –Text-Image-Environments, Newington Art Gallery, London (GB) • 2018 >> Transit, Salon Salder, Salzgitter (DE) • Feministisches Festival, Theater Oberhausen (DE) • 2015 >> Under Surveillance, Scope Gallery, Hanover (DE) • 2014 >> Ubique, Salon Salder, Salzgitter (DE)

AWARDS | SCHOLARSHIPS | RESIDENCIES | FUNDINGS
2024/25 >> Winner Open Call Resiliente Innenstadt, program initiated by the state capital of Hanover (DE) • 2022 >> Artist-in-Residency, ~~Schauspielhaus~~ Hotel Wien (A) • 2021 >> Goethe Institut Nancy, Residency, collaboration of the Digital Media Arts department, ENSAD Nancy, and the University of Applied Arts Bielefeld (D/FR) • 2020 >> Kulturstiftung NRW (DE) • project funding: Stiftung Niedersachsen (DE) • Artist-in-Residency, Kaunas Photography Gallery (LI) • 2019 >> Young Artists' Sponsorship Award, Protestant Church Lower Saxony (short list) (DE) • 2017 >> project funding: Kulturstiftung Nord/LB (DE) • project funding: Stiftung Niedersachsen (DE) • project funding: Kulturbüro of the state capital of Hanover (DE) • 2016 >> Young Artists' Sponsorship Award, Protestant Church Lower Saxony (short list) (DE) • 2015 >> project funding: Stiftung Leben und Umwelt/ Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (DE) • 2010 >> red dot award for the yearbook of Schauspiel Hanover (DE)

EDUCATION
2018-22 >> Master Degree at University for Applied Arts, Bielefeld (class Prof. Suse Wiegand: Spatial Art, Installation, Plastic and Object) • 2004 >> LICAP Animation, University of the Arts, London • 2000-2003 >> BA (Hons) Photography, University of the Arts, London • 2004 >> LICAP Animation, University of the Arts, London • 1995-98 >> trained as a photographer at Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (DE)

PUBLICATIONS
Porös-Werden: Geteilte Räume, urbane Dramaturgien, performatives Kuratieren, B. Büscher, E. Krasny, L. Ortmann (Ed.), Turia Kant 2024 (DE) • Women‘s Workshop, Cale Garrido (Ed.), published by Kaunas Photography Gallery 2023 (LI) • Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe and Everything, exhibition catalogue, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Leister (Ed.), University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Bielefeld 2019 (DE) • Fin de la Bobine – Schauspiel Hanover 2009-19, Judith Gerstenberg, Katrin Ribbe (Ed.), Niedersächsische Staatstheater GmbH 2019 (DE) • Under Surveillance, Ricus Aschemann, Maik Schlüter (Ed.), Revolver Publishing 2015 (DE) • deer family, Katrin Ribbe, artist book (DE)

PRESS
https://tdz.de/artikel/05a8047c-584c-4266-ab8b-2944ee201752
https://taz.de/Aufgebrochenes-Rollenbild/!5435150/
https://www.zebrabutter.net/vernissage-body-of-work-aus-wie-vielen-teilen-besteht-eine-frau.html
https://nachdemfilm.de/issues/text/martha-roslers-semiotics-kitchen-als-gebrauchsanleitung

GET IN TOUCH
mobile phone: +49 (0) 173 890 99 05, mail@katrinribbe.com