Simone Nieweg

Simone Nieweg (born 1962) is a German photographer. She photographs agricultural landscapes in rural Germany. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.

She has had solo exhibitions at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Saint Louis Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Life and work Nieweg was born in Bielefeld, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She uses a large format camera. Nature Man-Made. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2012. . Der Wald, Die Bäume, Das Licht: Photographien. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2016. .

Publications with contributions by Nieweg Art Photography Now. New York: Aperture, 2005. By Susan Bright. . The Düsseldorf School of Photography. New York: Aperture, 2010. Germany: Schirmer/Mosel, 2010. Edited by Stefan Gronert. Includes work by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth, and Petra Wunderlich; a foreword by Lothar Schirmer, an essay by Gronert, and summary biographies, exhibition lists and bibliographies for each of the photographers. .

Solo exhibitions Landscapes and Gardens, The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK, 2004 Gärten/Felder = gardens/fields, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, 2012

Public collections Nieweg's work is held in the following public collections: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam: 8 prints (as of December 2020) Museum of Modern Art, New York: 6 prints (as of December 2020) Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California: 5 prints (as of December 2020) Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 3 prints (as of December 2020)