Barbara Probst

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Born: 1964, Munich, Germany
Lives: and works in New York and Munich

Education
1984-90 Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Munich, Germany
1988-89 Kunstakademie D�sseldorf, Germany

Solo Exhibitions
2009
Murray Guy, New York

2008
Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France
Jessica Bradley Art and Projects, Toronto, Canada

2007
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Exposures, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; travelling to Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
G Fine Arts, Washington, DC

2006
Murray Guy, New York, NY

2005
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, Germany
Jessica Bradley Art and Projects, Toronto, Canada (with Pascal Grandmaison)
Exposures, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

2004
Exposures, Murray Guy, New York, NY

2003
Spr�th Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany

2002 Kunstverein Cuxhaven, Germany
Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany

2001
Kunstverein Schwerte, Germany
Was Wirklich Geschah, ESCALE, D�sseldorf, Germany


2000
stop #1, Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany

1998
Interviews, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany

1995
Der Geplante Augenblick, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany


1994
InExspectation, Galerie Binder & Rid, Munich, Germany
My Museum, Galerie Philomene Magers Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1993
Interieur, Galerie Otto Schweins, Cologne, Germany

1992
Vier Interieurs, Galerie FOE, Munich, Germany

1990
Akademiegalerie, Munich, Germany


Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
FRAC Bretagne, Ch�teaugiran, France

Group Exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions

2008
Role Models, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2007
Body Double, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Zeichen der Zeit, Rathausgalerie M�nchen, Munich, Germany
The End(s) of Photography: Modeling the Photographic, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
Frame of Reference, Clifford Chance Projects, New York, NY
Tell Me a Story: Narrative Photography Now, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

2006
Next Next Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
New Photography (with Jonathan Monk and Jules Spinatsch), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2005
After the Fact, 1st Berlin Photography Festival, Walter-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
This Side Toward Screen, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Loop, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

2004
Camera Action, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Between Spaces, Galerie Asbaek, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Der Widerstand der Fotografie, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

2003
Off, Murray Guy, New York, USA
Double Exposure, Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany traveling to G Fine Art, Washington, DC,; Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; 2004: Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada; Inman Gallery Houston TX; Shearburn Gallery St. Louis, MO; Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery Portland, OR; Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas, NV (April-June 2005).
20th Anniversary-show, Galerie Monika Spr�th, Cologne, Germany
Subtle Occupation, Murray Guy, New York, USA
Between Spaces, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2002
Hollywood revisited, Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
QUIVID I - im �ffentlichen Auftrag, Technisches Rathaus, Munich, Germany

2001
Moving Pictures, Triennale der Photographie, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Countdown, Kunstverein M�nchen, Munich, Germany
mentalscape (eine Bibliothek), FOE 156, Munich, Germany
Heute bis Jetzt - Im Labor der Bilder, Museum Kunstpalast, D�sseldorf, Germany

2000
transporter, A Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand
simili, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1999
Spaceship Earth, Art in General, New York, U.S.A.

1998
Fotografia Situacionista, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

1996
Fotografia Nell�Arte Tedesca contemporanea, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milano, Italy
1,2,3,4; Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany

1995-1997
photography after photography: Praterinsel, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle Krems, Germany; St�dt. Galerie Erlangen, Germany; Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus, Germany; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

1995-96
Ars viva, Schlo_ Georgium Dessau; Kunstverein Frankfurt; Kunsthalle N�rnberg, Germany

1995
Trick or Treat, Galerie Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany

1994
Skulptur, Galerie Bugdahn & Kaimer, D�sseldorf, Germany
Scharf im Schauen, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1993
Deb�tanten 93, K�nstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstra_e, Munich, Germany

1992
Modell, Pasinger Ritterwerke, Munich, Germany

1991
Szenarien der Wirklichkeit, BBK M�nchen, Munich, Germany

1990
Bilder Zeigen, Lothringerstra_e, Ladengalerie, Munich, Germany

Bibliography
2008
Kluger, Jeffrey, Time, May 30, 2008

2007
Exposures, catalogue, published by steidl/Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 108 pages, 4 color throughout, hardcover with dust jacket
Braun, Reinhard, �Barbara Probst�, Photo Art � Fotografie im 21. Jahrhundert, Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne, 2007, pp.346-349
Irvine, Karen. �Exposure #33: N.Y.C.� Magenta Magazine, Vol.2 No.3 Winter, 2007
Irvine, Karen. �Dissected Moments�, Barbara Probst Exposures, MoCP/Steidl G�ttingen, 2007
Bate, David. �Different Angles�, ibid
Meinhardt, Johannes and Barbara Probst, �Conversation�, ibid.

2006
Lytal, Benjamin, �Double and Triple Vision�, New York Sun, September 28, 2006
Sholis, Brian. �Barbara Probst � Murray Guy�, Artforum, May 2006, p.292
Johnson, Ken. �Art Listings: Barbara Probst�, The New York Times, March 17, 2006
�Barbara Probst�, Art on Paper, Vol.10 no.3 January/February 2006
Siemer, Ren� G., �Das Selber muss nicht das Gleiche sein�, Kunst 21, no.12, January 2006, pp.6-17

2005
Lundstr�m, Jan-Erik. �After the Fact� in After the Fact, Berlin Photography Festival 2005, exhibition catalogue, European Photography und Berlin Photography Festival e.V., Berlin, Germany, p. 150-155, 218

2004
Trescher, Stephan. �M�glichkeiten der Selbstreflexion�, Schnellkurs Kunst der Gegenwart, Dumont Verlag, Cologne, Germany, p. 63,64
Jacobson, Louis. �Barbara Probst: Exposures�, Washington City Paper, April 22, 2005
Dawson, Jessica. �Barbara Probst: Meet the Swingers�, The Washington Post, April 21, 2005, p.C5
Braun, Reinhard �An Exposure of Photography: Barbara Probst�s �Exposures��, Camera Austria, no 85/2004
Irvine, Karen, �The Performance Moment�, Camera/Action, exhibition brochure, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago
Schwendener, Martha. �Barbara Probst, �Exposures�, Murray Guy�, Time Out New York, January 29 � February 5, 2004,

2003
Gockel, Cornelia. �Wahr Was?�, S�ddeutsche Zeitung, 1.20.03, p. 40
S�rensen, Ann Lumbye. �Kunsten som dynamo�, Weekendavisen, Denmark 07.25-31.03, p.9
Mentalscape (eine Bibliothek), exhibition catalogue, FOE 156, Munich, Christopher Kramtschek, Munich, 2003

2002
Stein, Claudia: �Barbara Probst: Exposures�, Photography Now 3.02,
van den Valentyn, Heike. �Barbara Probst: exposures�, Heute bis Jetzt, Zeitgen�ssische Fotografie aus D�sseldorf Teil II exhibition catalogue, Museum Kunst Palast D�sseldorf, p.62-67
Schessl, Stefan. Barbara Probst: exposures, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein Cuxhaven,
Schellmann, J�rg. �Barbara Probst exposure #1� in Double Exposure, exhibition catalogue, Edition Schellmann, Munich-New York
Braun, Reinhard. �Remaking the Real, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmanns and Barbara Probst are transforming the rich tradition of German Photography�, Modern Painters, winter 2002, p. 90-93
�Barbara Probst: Laura�, in Quivid (citymap of Munich with art in public projects), Landeshauptstadt M�nchen, Germany 2002
N�rlyng, Ole. �Billedets fiktive fort�lling�, Observer, Denmark, 1.19.02
Hansen, J�rgen. �Gensyn med Hollywood�, JyllandsPosten/Morgenavisen, Denmark, 1.12.02
Werner-Art, Lisa. �Mit Qualit�t, aber ohne Spektakul�res�, Dresdener Neue Nachrichten, Germany, 04.27./28.02
Salzbrenner, Uwe. �Sinnliches Entdecken und knapp kalkuliertes Gesch�ft�, S�chsische Zeitung, Germany, 4.27./28.02
Kernbach, Andreas. �Kunst im Paul-L�be-Haus�, in Blickpunkt Bundestag, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany 2002
Cordes, Ilse. �Die vielen Wahrheiten der Fotografie�, Cuxhavener Nachrichten, Cuxhaven, Germany, 5.4.02, p. 15
Boecker, Susanne. �Eine Frau springt durch die Nacht�, K�lner Stadtanzeiger, Cologne, Germany, 10.17.2002
�Exposure #6a�, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, Germany, 11.3.02, p. 54
Krogh, Anna and �rskou, Gitte. �Barbara Probst: stop�, in Hollywood Revisited, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark, pp. 52-55
Kern, Kristine. �Hollywood i billedkunstnerisk optik�, Politiken, Denmark, 01.12.02

2001
Scheutle, Rudolf. �Barbara Probst: Stop�, in Moving Pictures, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany 2001, pp. 114-117
Sonna, Birgit. �Barbara Probst: Laura�, the department of building construction, Munich, Germany 2001
Ander, Heike. �Barbara Probst: stop� in Countdown, exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein M�nchen, Germany, December 2001
Honnef, Klaus. �Die Zeitung �berfliegen und andere Bewegungen�, Art, September 2001, p.98
Hoffmann, Gabriele. �Der bewegte Fliesenleger�, taz, Berlin, Germany, 08.22.01
Kr�ner, Magdalena. �Acht�,Kunstforum, Nov./Dec. 2001
Meister, Helga. �Gestaffelte Wirklichkeit�, WZ, Germany 10.05.01
G�gger, Christian. �Bewegte Bilder bewegen die Kunst�, Esslinger Zeitung, 06.30.01
Kr�ner, Magdalena. �Video, Philosophie, Klang und Kunst�, Rheinische Post, 10.10.01

2000
De Chiara, Laurie and Urabe, Naomi. transporter, exhibition catalogue, About Studio/About Cafe, Bangkok, Thailand, 2000
Sachs, Brita. �Rundgang durch M�nchner Galerien�, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 07.29.2000

1999
Trescher, Stephan. �Alles Theater/Leuchtkasten als Raum�, in Light Boxes, Verlag f�r moderne Kunst N�rnberg, Germany, 1999

1998
Dreher, Thomas. �Barbara Probst: INEXPECTATION�, Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, 1998
Hofstetter, Michael. �Barbara Probst in der Akademiegalerie 1990� Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, Roos, Renate. �Barbara Probst in der Galerie Schweins: Der Besucher w�chst und schrumpft�, K�lner Stadtanzeiger, Cologne, Germany, 09.24./25.98
Knapp, Gottfried. �28 Millionen suchen einen K�nstler�, S�ddeutsche Zeitung, Germany, 09.18.1998,p. 17
Welzer, Harald. �Die Schwatzgemeinde� Artist, February 1998
Die Zeit, special millennial illustrated issue, 12.30.98. p. 49
Dreher, Thomas. Barbara Probst: Welcome, published by Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, 1998
Dreher, Thomas. Barbara Probst: Through The Looking Glass, published by Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, 1998
Dreher, Thomas. �Was Wirklich Geschah� in Barbara Probst: Was Wirklich Geschah, published by Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, 1998
Schultze, Michael. �Die Ganze Welt�, in Barbara Probst:Was Wirklich Geschah, published by Barbara Probst, Munich, Germany, 1998

1997
Wolf, Silvio. �Il Luogo e L�Arbitrio�, Tema Celeste #61, Italy, March-April 1997

1996
Steinweg, Marcus. Fotografia Nell�Arte Tedesca Comtemporanea, exhibition catalogue, Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Wutz, Andreas. �Do you really look at me?� in photography after photography, exhibition catalogue, H. von Amelunxen, S. Iglhaut, F. R�tzer (a project of Siemens Culture Programe), Germany, 1996, pp. 242-247

1995
Scharf im Schauen � Aktuelle Kunst in M�nchen, exhibition catalogue, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 1994
Ars Viva, Fotografie 95/96, exhibition catalogue, Cultural Board of the German Industry, Cologne, Germany, 1995


Grants/Awards
1990
Sanha Kaimer Fellowship: New York residency
1992
Fellowship of Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
DAAD Travel Grant: Rome
1994
Photography Award, Arts Council, Munich
1995
Award, Cultural Board of the German Industry, Bund Deutscher Industrie
1997
Fellowship of Bavaria: New York residency
2002
Fellowship of Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
Philip Morris Award, Dresden