CV
Pola Sieverding
born in Düsseldorf, Germany
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
2001-2007 University of the Arts Berlin, MFA with Stan Douglas
2002 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2005 Surikov Institute, Moscow, Russia
Exhibitions
2024
im Atelier Liebermann: Jorinde Voigt –Constant Vision, Max Liebermann Haus, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
Being in the Garden of Forking Paths, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Finland
The Halle at Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2023
Pola & Pablo, Pola Sieverding and Pablo Picasso, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Contact Zone, signs and symbols, New York, USA (SOLO)
Contact Zone, European Month of Photography, O P E N BERLIN, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
INTRUSIVE PERMUTATION: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Electronic Music, Gewölbe, Cologne, Germany
Another Day at the Office, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany
POLA & PABLO, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany
THE DELICATE THINGS THAT GIRLS DO, signs and symbols, New York, USA
2022
we tell ourselves stories in order to live, signs and symbols, New York, USA (SOLO)
NOCTURNAL, Kanya & Kage, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Vabanque, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
LA BEAUTÉ SERA CONVULSIVE OU NE SERA PA, KNUST KUNZ Belgium, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (SOLO)
Oblivion, Abundance and Aquarius (the age of), O P E N BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
signs and symbols, New York, USA
2021
That was then, this is now, signs and symbols, New York, USA
IRURU MUYU / PERÍMETRO / UMFANG, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
Paradise Lost #gender shift, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Points of Resistance, by KLEINERVONWIESE and MOMENTUM, Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany
2020
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 Art. 8 GG Versammlungsfreiheit, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Bodies that Matter, Yalda Afsah & Ginan Seidl, Talia Chetrit, Collier Schorr, SMITH, Pola Sieverding, Wolfgang Tillmans, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
Body Check. Pola Sieverding und Jochem Hendricks, Seehof, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (SOLO)
Conny Maier, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Pola Sieverding, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany
Interintimes Autoportrait, Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt Copines – Copains, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Vertikalwinkel, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Demi-gros, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
2018
Bodies that matter, Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Pola Sieverding, KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Gustav Peichl, 15 Bauten zum 90sten, MAK, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (SOLO)
The Epic, Pola Sieverding, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf, Germany (SOLO)
Interlocal, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Inverse Narrative, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Lemgo, Germany
Macho?, Instinct at Village, Berlin, Germany
Von fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ein Turm von Unmöglichkeiten, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2017
CLOSE TO CONCRETE II, Video des Monats, HartwareMedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany (SOLO)
Picha / Bilder, Zwischen Nairobi und Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Germany
Small, an exploration of miniature, Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, Germany
2016
7. Europäischer Monat der Fotografie, IKON, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
THE EPIC, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (SOLO)
Artists against Aids, Kunsthalle Bonn, Germany
SILK (anlässlich des Monats der Fotografie-Off), WBB Willner Brauerei, Berlin, Germany
A new language (ROOT 1066 International Festival), Hastings, UK
Von den Strömen der Stadt, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
SOMETIMES YOU SEE YOUR CITY DIFFERENTLY, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berlin Raum Radar, Neue West, Berlin, Germany
Superstition, Galerie am Meer, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Self. Perception - Profession - Portrait, Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015
TABLEAU, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
ARENA, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
The Vacancy, 33 Rooms, 33 Artists, Temporary Art Space Friedrichstrasse, 124, Berlin, Germany
„Gib’ mir das Sommerloch”, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Um Fleisch auf die Nerven zu bekommen, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
Topless, kuratiert von Ben Kaufmann, B32, Maastricht, Netherlands
NGORONGORO, Lehdererstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
History is a Warm Gun., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2014
GRANDS ENSEMBLES, BOX Freiraum, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Kunstfilmtage, Düsseldorf, Germany
Across the Universe – Traveling without moving, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich, Switzerland
Das andere Wo, Open Space, Vienna, Austria
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Blended Generations, 701 e.V., Köbogen, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013
Hélio Oiticica. Das große Labyrinth - Penetrável PN 14, Palmengarten des Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
BERLIN:STATUS, , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
UTOPIA, Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athen, PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
UTOPIA, Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athen, Senatsreservespeicher, Berlin, Germany
No More Heroes Anymore, 20 Jahre Salon Hansa, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germanny
040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst – Destroyed Images, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Schwebendes Verfahren, Salon Hansa, P.O.P., Berlin, Germany
2012
CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE, BRAENNEN, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE, Galerie Kostka, Prague, Czech Republic (SOLO)
Hyperrealz, Bruno Glint, London 2thepowerof2, Uferstrasse 8, Berlin, Germany
Nomadics, Supermarkt, Berlin, Germany
Avantrash Neue Wände, Knust +Kunz, München, Germany
2011
CLOSE TO CONCRETE, Lumiar Cité, Libson, Portugal (SOLO)
Open Studio, Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Hot Spot Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Alive She Cried, kuratiert von Reynold Reynolds, Galerie Zink, Berlin ReMAP 3, Athens, Greece
Dreizehn, Galerie Filser&Gräf, München, Germany
2010
Never mind about the six feet, let’s talk about the seven inches, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
RHIZOMA, TÄT, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Künstler der Galerie III, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin Six Days Of New Media, Lininenstrasse 127, Berlin, Germany
BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE, Berlin, Germany
The Green Valley Disaster/The New World.TV, Tate Modern, London, UK
No more daughters and heroes, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Superkeit…20 Artists from Berlin, Anna Klinkhammer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
99, im namen des raumes, Berlin, Germany
Abspann, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
2009
Figures of Affect, Friederike Hamann und Pola Sieverding, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany
Künstler der Galerie II, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany
Solar Beam, Parkdeck, Düsseldorf, Germany
Hoffnung, WFB im Kontorhaus, Bremen, Germany
FOUR, Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany
Mikael Andersen presents TROJA III / NO FUTURE an installation by Galerie im Regierungsviertel, ART Copenhagen, Denmark
I’M AFRAID. IT IS HUNGRY. IT IS IMMORTAL., Art in General, New York, USA
2008
Passing Presence, Probebuehne Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany
High Beam, Immermann 9, Düsseldorf, Germany
gender*d*rama, Statthaus Böcklerpark, Berlin Radius Of Art, öffentlicher Raum, Kiel, Germany
2007
Hardcore Glamour, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Heavy Rotation, Uferpalast, Berlin, Germany
2002
wundermaschine, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Exchange, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2024 KUNSTFONDS_Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds / Work stipend
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2018 Produktionsstipendium / production grant, d’mage Fine Art Printmanufaktur, Berlin, Germany
2017 Publikationsförderung / Publication grant, Stiftung Zukunft NRW
2014 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats / Work stipend in the visual arts by the Senat of Berlin, Germany
2011 Artist in Residence, MeetFactory, Prag, Czech Republic
2011 Artist in Residence, Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Reisestipendium / Travel Grant Anna Lindh Foundation and International
2011 Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah, Palestine
2009 NaFöG Stipendiatin (Yound Talent Award) des Berliner Senats / UdK Berlin, Germany
2008 Artist in Residence, ArtSchool Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine
2008 DAAD in New York, New York
2005 NICA Moscow, Russia
2002 NICA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
2001-2007 University of the Arts Berlin, MFA with Stan Douglas
2002 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2005 Surikov Institute, Moscow, Russia
Exhibitions
2024
im Atelier Liebermann: Jorinde Voigt –Constant Vision, Max Liebermann Haus, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
Being in the Garden of Forking Paths, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany
Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Finland
The Halle at Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2023
Pola & Pablo, Pola Sieverding and Pablo Picasso, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Contact Zone, signs and symbols, New York, USA (SOLO)
Contact Zone, European Month of Photography, O P E N BERLIN, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
INTRUSIVE PERMUTATION: A Dialogue between Contemporary Art and Electronic Music, Gewölbe, Cologne, Germany
Another Day at the Office, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany
POLA & PABLO, Knust Kunz Gallery, Munich, Germany
THE DELICATE THINGS THAT GIRLS DO, signs and symbols, New York, USA
2022
we tell ourselves stories in order to live, signs and symbols, New York, USA (SOLO)
NOCTURNAL, Kanya & Kage, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Vabanque, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
LA BEAUTÉ SERA CONVULSIVE OU NE SERA PA, KNUST KUNZ Belgium, Knokke-Heist, Belgium (SOLO)
Oblivion, Abundance and Aquarius (the age of), O P E N BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
signs and symbols, New York, USA
2021
That was then, this is now, signs and symbols, New York, USA
IRURU MUYU / PERÍMETRO / UMFANG, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
Paradise Lost #gender shift, DG Kunstraum, Munich, Germany
A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss, Bark Berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Points of Resistance, by KLEINERVONWIESE and MOMENTUM, Zionskirche, Berlin, Germany
2020
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1 Art. 8 GG Versammlungsfreiheit, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Bodies that Matter, Yalda Afsah & Ginan Seidl, Talia Chetrit, Collier Schorr, SMITH, Pola Sieverding, Wolfgang Tillmans, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
Body Check. Pola Sieverding und Jochem Hendricks, Seehof, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (SOLO)
Conny Maier, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Pola Sieverding, OFFICE IMPART, Berlin, Germany
Interintimes Autoportrait, Lachenmann Art, Frankfurt Copines – Copains, Galerie Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
Vertikalwinkel, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
Demi-gros, KWADRAT, Berlin, Germany
2018
Bodies that matter, Knust Kunz Gallery Editions, Munich, Germany (SOLO)
Pola Sieverding, KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Gustav Peichl, 15 Bauten zum 90sten, MAK, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst, Vienna, Austria (SOLO)
The Epic, Pola Sieverding, Studio for Artistic Research, Düsseldorf, Germany (SOLO)
Interlocal, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
The Inverse Narrative, Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst, Lemgo, Germany
Macho?, Instinct at Village, Berlin, Germany
Von fremden Ländern in eigenen Städten, MAP Markus Ambach Projekte, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ein Turm von Unmöglichkeiten, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2017
CLOSE TO CONCRETE II, Video des Monats, HartwareMedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany (SOLO)
Picha / Bilder, Zwischen Nairobi und Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin / Stiftung Olbricht, Germany
Small, an exploration of miniature, Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, Germany
2016
7. Europäischer Monat der Fotografie, IKON, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
THE EPIC, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (SOLO)
Artists against Aids, Kunsthalle Bonn, Germany
SILK (anlässlich des Monats der Fotografie-Off), WBB Willner Brauerei, Berlin, Germany
A new language (ROOT 1066 International Festival), Hastings, UK
Von den Strömen der Stadt, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
SOMETIMES YOU SEE YOUR CITY DIFFERENTLY, Feinberg Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
Berlin Raum Radar, Neue West, Berlin, Germany
Superstition, Galerie am Meer, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Self. Perception - Profession - Portrait, Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2015
TABLEAU, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
ARENA, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
The Vacancy, 33 Rooms, 33 Artists, Temporary Art Space Friedrichstrasse, 124, Berlin, Germany
„Gib’ mir das Sommerloch”, Anna Jill Lüpertz Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Um Fleisch auf die Nerven zu bekommen, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt, Germany
Topless, kuratiert von Ben Kaufmann, B32, Maastricht, Netherlands
NGORONGORO, Lehdererstrasse 34, Berlin, Germany
History is a Warm Gun., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2014
GRANDS ENSEMBLES, BOX Freiraum, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Benefiz Auktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Kunstfilmtage, Düsseldorf, Germany
Across the Universe – Traveling without moving, Museum Bärengasse, Zürich, Switzerland
Das andere Wo, Open Space, Vienna, Austria
LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX 2, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Blended Generations, 701 e.V., Köbogen, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Undulation of Something Faintly Familiar, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013
Hélio Oiticica. Das große Labyrinth - Penetrável PN 14, Palmengarten des Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
BERLIN:STATUS, , Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
UTOPIA, Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athen, PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
UTOPIA, Galerie Utopia Berlin/Athen, Senatsreservespeicher, Berlin, Germany
No More Heroes Anymore, 20 Jahre Salon Hansa, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germanny
040 Festival für Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst – Destroyed Images, Frappant, Hamburg, Germany
Schwebendes Verfahren, Salon Hansa, P.O.P., Berlin, Germany
2012
CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE/CLOSE TO CONCRETE, BRAENNEN, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
CROSS METROPOLIS MACHINE, Galerie Kostka, Prague, Czech Republic (SOLO)
Hyperrealz, Bruno Glint, London 2thepowerof2, Uferstrasse 8, Berlin, Germany
Nomadics, Supermarkt, Berlin, Germany
Avantrash Neue Wände, Knust +Kunz, München, Germany
2011
CLOSE TO CONCRETE, Lumiar Cité, Libson, Portugal (SOLO)
Open Studio, Meetfactory, Prague, Czech Republic
Hot Spot Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Alive She Cried, kuratiert von Reynold Reynolds, Galerie Zink, Berlin ReMAP 3, Athens, Greece
Dreizehn, Galerie Filser&Gräf, München, Germany
2010
Never mind about the six feet, let’s talk about the seven inches, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
RHIZOMA, TÄT, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Künstler der Galerie III, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin Six Days Of New Media, Lininenstrasse 127, Berlin, Germany
BERLIN KREUZBERG BIENNALE, Berlin, Germany
The Green Valley Disaster/The New World.TV, Tate Modern, London, UK
No more daughters and heroes, Aram Art Gallery, Goyang Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Superkeit…20 Artists from Berlin, Anna Klinkhammer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
99, im namen des raumes, Berlin, Germany
Abspann, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
2009
Figures of Affect, Friederike Hamann und Pola Sieverding, Galerie Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany (SOLO)
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany
Künstler der Galerie II, Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, Germany
Solar Beam, Parkdeck, Düsseldorf, Germany
Hoffnung, WFB im Kontorhaus, Bremen, Germany
FOUR, Galerie im Regierungsviertel/Forgotten Bar, Berlin, Germany
Mikael Andersen presents TROJA III / NO FUTURE an installation by Galerie im Regierungsviertel, ART Copenhagen, Denmark
I’M AFRAID. IT IS HUNGRY. IT IS IMMORTAL., Art in General, New York, USA
2008
Passing Presence, Probebuehne Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany
High Beam, Immermann 9, Düsseldorf, Germany
gender*d*rama, Statthaus Böcklerpark, Berlin Radius Of Art, öffentlicher Raum, Kiel, Germany
2007
Hardcore Glamour, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Heavy Rotation, Uferpalast, Berlin, Germany
2002
wundermaschine, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Exchange, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2024 KUNSTFONDS_Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds / Work stipend
2022 NEUSTART KULTUR Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2018 Produktionsstipendium / production grant, d’mage Fine Art Printmanufaktur, Berlin, Germany
2017 Publikationsförderung / Publication grant, Stiftung Zukunft NRW
2014 Arbeitsstipendium des Berliner Senats / Work stipend in the visual arts by the Senat of Berlin, Germany
2011 Artist in Residence, MeetFactory, Prag, Czech Republic
2011 Artist in Residence, Maumaus, Lisbon, Portugal
2011 Reisestipendium / Travel Grant Anna Lindh Foundation and International
2011 Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah, Palestine
2009 NaFöG Stipendiatin (Yound Talent Award) des Berliner Senats / UdK Berlin, Germany
2008 Artist in Residence, ArtSchool Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine
2008 DAAD in New York, New York
2005 NICA Moscow, Russia
2002 NICA Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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