Barbara Metselaar Berthold

Barbara Metselaar Berthold (1951 – 21 September 2024) was a German photographer and filmmaker.

Biography Berthold studied social psychology from 1969 to 1971 at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. In 1971 she began studying photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, completing her degree in 1976 with a diploma. Then she went to Berlin, where she worked as a freelance photographer.

In 1984 she married the Dutchman Kees Metselaar and traveled out of the GDR. In the years 1985 to 1989 she was a lecturer and artistic staff including work at the University of Arts in Berlin. Then she focused on the production of documentaries and video essays and worked from 1991 for various television productions.

In 1996, she signed the International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film in Leipzig her film "We were so happy to have been heroes" with the Silver Dove. REF 1998/99 was Barbara Merselaar Berthold and a lecturer in photography at the School of Film TV Babelsberg held. Their documentary projects have been supported by grants from the film enhance the country Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and cultural promotion in the Free State of Saxony. In 2010 she received the award for artistic photography of artists program of the Berlin Senate.

Berthold lived in Berlin and the Uckermark. She died on 21 September 2024.

Exhibitions Fotowerkstatt Kreuzberg, Berlin 1985 Stadtstand II, Installation mit Hans-Hendrik Grimmling, Lutz Friedel und Martin Steyer im Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1988 DDR-Frauen fotografieren, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin und im Museum Ludwig, Oberhausen 1990, mit Katalog: Gabriele Muschter, (Hrsg.): DDR Frauen fotografieren. Lexikon und Anthologie, ex pose verlag, Berlin 1990 Citylights, Alter Wiehrebahnhof Freiburg 1991 , 1994 In den großen Städten, Galerie argus Fotokunst, Berlin 1996 Cut/Kire/Schnitt, Galerie Schwarzes Kloster Freiburg, 1998 Frozen Margaritas, fotografische Installation in der Galerie am Prater, Berlin 1999 Deutsche Tänze, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Cottbus, und im Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin-Schöneberg 1999 Positions-Attidudes-Actions, Foto Biennale Rotterdam (Beteiligung), 2000 Within and beyond the wall (Nine German photographers) Harbourfront Gallery Toronto, 2004 Fifteen years after the fall of the wall (Beteiligung), Central Library Gallery San Antonio, 2004 Utopie und Wirklichkeit, Forum für Fotografie Köln und Willy-Brandt-Haus Berlin (Beteiligung), 2004 Behind Walls, Noorderlicht Photofestival (Beteiligung), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, 2008 Art of two Germanys, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Beteiligung), 2009 Suche, Seele, Suche - zwischen zwei Welten, Galerie argus Fotokunst, Berlin 2010 Filetstücke - Vexierbilder Berlin Mitte, Ephraim-Palais, Berlin 2010 4. Fotofestival, Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg 2011

Works in public collections Her works are included in the following collections, among others: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Märkisches Museum, Berlin Fotografischen Sammlung des Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt auf der Moritzburg in Halle Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst Cottbus

Films , Materialsammlung, (Regie, Kamera, Schnitt), 1989 - die Klappe und Das Haus, künstlerische Videos, 1989/90 Tell me the tales (Kamera), Deutscher Fernsehfunk 1991 (Regiekamera, Schnitt), ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, 1993/94 (Buch, Regie, Kamera, Schnitt) ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, 1995/96 Frozen Margaritas (Buch, Regie, Kamera, Schnitt, Produktion), 1998/99 (Buch, Regie, Kamera, Schnitt), 2005 (Buch, Regie, Kamera, Schnitt), mit Tina Bara, 2006/07

Publications Kratzen am Beton - 68er in der DDR?. Verlag Vopelius, Jena 2008. Albatros. Vom Abheben, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2010,