Pola Sieverding

Pola Sieverding (born 1981) is a German photographer and video artist. She works in the field of lens based media.

Education Sieverding graduated in 2007 with an MFA from the Berlin University of the Arts where she studied under Stan Douglas, Ellen Cantor, Dieter Appelt, Sabeth Buchmann, and Katja Diefenbach. In 2002, she attended the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in 2005 the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow.

Work The artist's work questions traditional concepts of gender, culture, 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, performance actors and the Berlin club scene- 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. In cooperation with Orson Sieverding, the artist develops electronic soundscapes for her installations which when projected onto her protagonists transform into urban echoes.

Grants Sieverding has won an art grant from the Senate of Berlin twice, in 2008 and 2014. 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 Today the artist resides and works in Berlin. 2016: "THE EPIC", NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen 2015: "ARENA", at Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin 2014: "GRANDS ENSEMBLES" at BOX21 Freiraum für Kultur, Berlin 2012: "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at BRAENNEN, Berlin 2012 "CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE" at Galerie Kostka, Prague 2011: "CLOSE TO CONCRETE" at Lumiar Cité, Lisbon 2010: "Never mind about the six feet, let's talk about the seven inches" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin 2010: "RHIZOMA" at TÄT, Berlin 2009/2010: "Figures of Affect" Friederike Hamann and Pola Sieverding, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin 2009: "Cadavre Exquis" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin

Major group exhibitions 2016: "Von den Strömen der Stadt", Museum Abteiberg, Mönhengladbach 2016: "The Self. Perception – Profession – Portrait", Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai kuratiert von Frank Wagner und Zelda Cheatle 2014: "LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2" at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin 2014: "Blended Generations" at 701 e.V., Düsseldorf 2014 2014: "The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar" at Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles 2013: "BERLIN.STATUS " at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2012: "Hyperrealz" at Bruno Glint, London 2011: "Hot Spot Berlin" at Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin 2011: "Alive She Cried" curated by Reynold Reynolds at Galerie Zink, Berlin 2010: "Künstler der Galerie III" at Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin 2010: "Six Days of New Media" at Linienstraße 127, Berlin 2010: "No more daughters and heroes" at Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul 2007: "Hardcore Glamour" at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin

Major collaborations and performances 2014: "Kunsthalle Bühne: Das Fest! VERSION featuring ORSON&POLA", Orson Sieverding and Pola Sieverding at Kunstverein, Düsseldorf 2012: " https://web.archive.org/web/20141219114212/http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/ " Natascha Sadr Haghighian collaborating with Pola Sieverding at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel

Publications 2018: THE EPIC, Hrsg. NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Verlag Hatje Cantz 2016: Berlin Raum Radar edited by Nadine Barth, Verlag Hatje Cantz 2016: Dubai Photo Exhibition, edited by Zelda Cheatle 2015: trail, edited by Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Pola Sieverding, Jasper Kettner; Schriftenreihe des documenta Archivs. Verlag Spector Books, Leipzig 2015: History is a Warm Gun, edited by Britta Schmitz, n.b.k. Berlin, Verlag Walter König 2015: ARENA, exhibition catalogue by Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin 2014: LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, edited by Frank Wagner, nGbK, Berlin 2013: Artists for Revival – Rehberger, Morris, Brandenburg, Sieverding, Bonvicini, Yalcindag, Schulze, Sweeny, Zipp, Nickolson, edited by Schiesser 2013: Berlin.Status(2) – 50 Positionen junger Künstler und Künstlerinnen aus Berlin, edited by Sven Drühl, Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20141219114212/http://pfad.d13.documenta.de/, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Pola Sieverding at dOCUMENTA (13) 2010: Never Mind About The Six Feet. Let's Talk About The Seven Inches, exhibition catalogue by Galeria Lena Brüning, Berlin 2010: TEXT Revue, edited by Andrea van Dühren, Berlin 2009: WOUND: Creative Culture Close Up, Pola Sieverding: Now Objectivity by Ken Pratt, London, UK, Fall Issue 2008: Spex, Nr. 312, White Cube Ambition-Junge Berliner Künstler, Liebling Nr. 05, Special Issue 2004: Klinik unter Palmen-Statements aus der Kunstakademie, in Texte zur Kunst "Erziehung" Issue 53