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Barbara Probst

Works

exhibitions

publications
  • Subjective Evidence
    Hartmann Books, 2024

    Barbara Probst

    Subjective Evidence

    Texte von Stefan Gronert, Fanni Fetzer, Kevin Moore
    Deutsch/Englisch
    Design: Martin Küchle, Nürnberg
    359 Abbildungen
    Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag
    mit Werkverzeichnis der »exposures«
    der Jahre 2000 bis 2023

    164 pages
    28 x 28 cm
    Hartmann Books, 2024
    ISBN 978-3-96070-108-8
    Euro 48,00

  • 
Streets, Fashion, Nudes, Still Lifes
    Hartmann Books, 2021

    Barbara Probst

    
Streets, Fashion, Nudes, Still Lifes

    Editor: Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg
    Texts: Barbara Probst, Brian Sholis, Harriet Zilch
    Preface: Ellen Seifermann
    Design: Martin Küchle, Nuremberg
    German/English

    Hardcover with gray cardboard, silkscreen printing and Swiss brochure
    with 5 foldouts, 80 illustrations

    112 pages
    22,5 × 32,5 cm
    Hartmann Books, 2021
    ISBN 978-3-96070-061-6
    Euro 38,00

  • The Moment in Space
    Hartmann Books, 2019

    Barbara Probst

    The Moment in Space

    Co-publisher: Le Bal, Paris
    Text: Frédéric Paul
    Design: Pierre Hourquet, Temple, Paris
    French/English

    Swiss brochure with large flaps, with five foldouts and 158 illus.

    120 pages
    23,5 x 30 cm
    Hartmann Books, 2019
    ISBN 978-3-96070-035-7
    Euro 34,00

  • 12 Moments
    Hartmann Projects, 2016

    Barbara Probst

    12 Moments

    Barbara Probst (*1964 in Munich; lives in New York and Munich) studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and photography under Bernd Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. She began her career with sculptural works, then moved on to three-dimensional installations that included photography, and finally, to the multi-part photographic works, the “exposures,” which brought her international renown. 12 Moments presents her new series of diptychs from the year 2015. Unlike her previously, primarily complex, multi-part works of art, which she photographed from a variety of perspectives simultaneously, this new, more minimalist series has been reduced to just two perspectives of the same scene in the same moment. In contrast to her earlier works, the pictures in this series are dreamlike and uncanny. In his extensive essay, Robert Hobbs, the well-known American author, curator, and art historian, puts these new works into the context of Probst’s previous artistic development.

    68 pages
    29 × 29 cm
    Hartmann Projects, 2016
    ISBN 978-3-96070-005-0
    Euro 38,00

  • Hatje Cantz, 2013

    Barbara Probst

    In her photo series, Barbara Probst (*1964 in Munich) not only plays with the changing perspectives and fleeting moments of urban life, she also poses fundamental questions about photography and imagery. Using a shutter release mechanism controlled by radio waves, the artist can use up to fourteen cameras to simultaneously shoot a scene from a distance and from numerous angles. Together, the various camera standpoints and framings as well as different objects and film material result in a series of views that are not bound by stylistic features, the same genre, or formal proximity. The images are held together only by the point in time at which the shutter was released. Yet the arrangement of the photographs is so sophisticated that it creates intriguing dramaturgies that make reference to a variety of different photographic genres.

    240 pages
    24,6 × 30 cm
    Hatje Cantz, 2013
    ISBN 978-3-7757-3711-1
    Euro 39,80

  • Exposures
    Steidl Verlag, 2007

    Barbara Probst

    Exposures

    In Barbara Probst’s series Exposures (2000-2006), she dissects the relationship between the photographic “moment” and perceived reality by showing a single action from numerous points of view. Probst arranges for multiple photographers to take pictures of the same subject from varying angles (and distances) at precisely the same moment. The multiple exposures are more than a meditation on the event being recorded — the images examine the act of reading photographs as documents of the actions or people they depict. While one may suggest voyeuristic qualities, another incorporates the slipshod framing of a snapshot, and another image may more closely resemble a runway shot of a model on the move. In this way, Probst’s sequences point out that the different ways we “direct” a photograph, by the position, settings, and film of the camera, can produce images with entirely disparate spheres of meaning. Published by Steidl and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Barbara Probst’s book is the first publication of her Exposures series. The publication features an introduction by MoCP Curator and Associate Director Karen Irvine, an essay by co-author David Bates, and a conversation with the artist by Johannes Meinhardt.

    108 pages
    22,9 × 25,4 cm
    Steidl Verlag, 2007
    ISBN 978-3-86521-392-1
    Euro 45,00

Biography

Barbara Probst was born in 1964 in Munich.
Between 1984 and 1990 she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Barbara Probst lives and works in New York, NY and Munich.

Grants and Awards

  • 2002

    Philip Morris Award, Dresden
    Fellowship of Kunstfonds Bonn

  • 1997

    Fellowship of the Bavarian State: New York residency

  • 1995

    Advancement award of the Kulturkreis des BDI

  • 1994

    Advancement award for photography, City of Munich

  • 1990

    Sanha-Kaimer-Scholarship, one year residency, New York City

Solo Shows

  • 2022

    Barbara Probst, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Poesie e verità, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy

  • 2021

    Barbara Probst, Gallerie Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
    Barbara Probst, Streets, Fashion, Nudes, Still Lifes, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

  • 2019

    Barbara Probst #Exposures, LE BAL, Paris, France
    Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Barbara Probst, Higher Pictures, New York City, USA

  • 2017

    12 Moments, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    12 Moments, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland

  • 2016

    12 Moments, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
    Murray Guy, New York City, NY

  • 2014

    Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Total Uncertainty, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Chechen
    Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt – Centre d’Art, Biel/Bienne, CH

  • 2013

    Murray Guy, New York City, NY
    Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Monica De Cardenas – Milano, Milan, Italy

  • 2012

    Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm
    Exposures, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Wilkinson Gallery, London

  • 2011

    Persona: A Body in Parts, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
    Murray Guy, New York City, NY
    G Fine Art, Washington, DC

  • 2010

    Barbara Probst – Exposure, Photographic Center Peri, Turku
    Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Zuoz, CH
    BARBARA PROBST: EXPOSURES, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, ON
    Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm

  • 2009

    Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
    Monica De Cardenas – Milano, Milan, Italy
    Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Murray Guy, New York City, NY

  • 2008

    Barbara Probst: Exposures – MMoCA, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
    Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
    BARBARA PROBST: EXPOSURES, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, ON

  • 2007

    Exposures, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Exposures, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
    Barbara Probst, MoCP – The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

  • 2006

    Murray Guy, New York City, NY

  • 2005

    Barbara Probst – Exposures, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
    Barbara Probst – Exposures, G Fine Art, Washington, DC

  • 2004

    Murray Guy, New York City, NY

  • 2003

    Barbara Probst, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany

  • 2002

    Barbara Probst, Galerie Otto Schweins, Köln, Germany

  • 2001

    Barbara Probst – Fotografie, Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany

  • 2000

    Barbara Probst, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany

Group Shows

  • 2022

    Phänomen Großmann trifft auf künstlerische Fotografie, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
    »making being here enough« – Ort & Subjekt, KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany
    Beyond The Frame, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
    The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
    sommer.frische.kunst, Bad Gastein, Austria
    Perspectives: Recent Gifts of Contemporary Art, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
    Hände, Eier, Zitronen, oqbo Raum fuer Bild Wort und Ton, Berlin, Germany
    Ourselves, Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

  • 2021

    In the Now, Gender and Nation in Europe, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
    Still / Live, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
    Angespannte Zustände, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

  • 2020

    KLEINE GESCHICHTE DER FOTOGRAFIE, #2, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
    Des marches, démarches, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
    Scope, Hannover, Germany
    Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse, Kunsthaus L6, Freiburg, Germany

  • 2019

    RealitätsCheck, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
    That one recognizes one another, Foto Wien, Vienna
    Ragione e Sentimento, Galleria Nazionale, Rome
    Belichtungen. Fotografische Arbeiten aus Deutschland, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen, Germany
    Nullpunkt der Orientierung. Fotografie als Verortung im Raum, DZ Bank, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany
    Re-Visions. Ann Wilde zum Achtzigsten Geburtstag, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
    Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, Pier24, San Francisco, USA
    Body Performance, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
    Cámara y Ciudad, La Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain
    An Ort und Stelle. Fotografie des Gegenwärtigen, Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Germany

  • 2018

    NEVER ENDING STORIES. Der Loop in Kunst, Film, Architektur, Musik, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
    Zeitspuren – The Power of Now, Centre Pasquart, Biel, CH
    The Art House Vol. 1, The Art House Hamburg, Germany
    3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum Peking, China
    AN-)SICHTEN – Thomas Rietschel zu Gast in der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Art Foyer – Dz Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
    CONTROL) NO CONTROL, Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
    Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Perspektiven – Strategien fotografischen Handelns, Designhaus Hessen, Darmstadt, Germany
    Stillleben, Kunsthaus Wien
    A Survey of Color Photography from its Prehistory to the Present Day, Marshall Fine Arts Center Atrium Gallery, Haverford, PA, USA

  • 2017

    Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Wilhelm-Hack-Musuem, Ludwigshafen
    10 YEARS OLD // 2007-2017: a history of the world told through the images of the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Modena Collection, Modena, Foro Boario
    JeonJu International Photo Festival, Jeonbuk Art center, South Korea
    Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
    An-Sichten, Art Foyer – DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt

  • 2016

    The Lasting. L’Intervallo e la Durata, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
    Stare, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
    Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
    Zurück in die Zukunft der Fotografie, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    Counterpoints: Photography Through the Lens of Toronto Collections, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
    People, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
    Mit Anderen Augen- Das Porträt In Der Zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  • 2015

    Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth – New York, 69th Street, New York City, NY
    Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    SpielRaum, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
    Proof: Photographs from the Collection, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
    …y el tiempo se hizo, Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
    Staged, Performed, Manipulated, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

  • 2014

    American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
    Double Back: Photographic Reflexivity, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, MD
    Double Back: Photographic Reflexivity, Galleries at Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
    Eyes on the Street, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
    I feel the need to express something, but I don’t know what it is I want to express. Or how to express it, Park View, Los Angeles, CA
    Punctum – Bemerkungen zur Photographie, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
    Unknown: Pictures of Strangers, Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH
    Understanding – Werke und Manifeste zur Fotografie, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
    Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum – Washington Univer, Saint Louis, MO
    Paparazzi ! Photographes, stars et artistes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
    Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation About Jasper Johns, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
    Stills – FotoFocus Biennial, Michael Lowe Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

  • 2013

    Das Fenster im Blick, Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    Per Speculum Me Video, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    The Other Portrait, MART- Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto Italy
    Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2013, VOX contemporary image, Montreal, QC
    Woman’s World: Contemporary Views of Women by Women, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL

  • 2012

    The Margulies Collection – Group Show, The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
    views and windows, Galerie Sabine Knust – Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany
    Lost Places – Orte der Photographie, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
    An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO

  • 2011

    Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
    Things are Queer – Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

  • 2010

    Exposed Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
    Group Show, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm
    Manhattan, uso mixto. Fotografía y otras prácticas artísticas desde 1970 al presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
    Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, Tate Modern, London
    To A Degree, Rational*, galleria gentili, Prato, PO
    Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
    ESOPUS 14: PROJECTS, Esopus Space, New York City, NY
    New York Now, Murray Guy, New York City, NY

  • 2009

    Süsser Vogel Jugend, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

  • 2008

    A Matter of Time, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York City, NY

  • 2007

    Body Double, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State Univer, Los Angeles, CA
    StereoVision, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
    Tell Me A Story: Narrative Photography Now, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

  • 2006

    New Photography 2006: Jonathan Monk, Barbara Probst, Jules Spinatsch, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
    New German Photography, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

  • 2005

    After the Fact – Berlin Photography Festival 2005, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
    This side toward screen, Murray Guy, New York City, NY
    Pascal Grandmaison & Barbara Probst, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, ON
    Group Loop, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
    Geo, Foxy Production, New York City, NY

  • 2004

    Camera/Action – Performance and Photography, MoCP – The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
    DOUBLE EXPOSURE, Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel, Nuremberg, Germany
    Der Widerstand der Fotografie, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
    Double Exposure, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
    Between Spaces 2, Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Double Exposure, Galerie Graff, Montreal, QC

  • 2003

    Off, Murray Guy, New York City, NY
    Double Exposure, G Fine Art, Washington, DC
    Between Spaces, CCA Andratx, Andratx
    Photographische Diptychen, Edition Schellmann, Munich

  • 2002

    Heute bis Jetzt, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
    hollywood revisited, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

  • 1999

    Mach´s gut Mensch, Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte, Germany
    Spaceship Earth, Art in General, New York City, NY

  • 1997

    SALDO – 23 Jahre Rinke-Klasse, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

  • 1996

    Ars Viva 95/96, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

  • 1995

    Ars Viva 95/96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    Ars Viva 95/96, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, Germany

Public Collections

  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
    Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
    Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
    The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
    Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    Frac Brittany, France
    Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
    Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
    Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
    Kolumba, Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany
    Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
    National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
    Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
    DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
    Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
    CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
    Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Italy
    The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
    LACMA – Los AngelesCounty Museum of Art, L.A., CA
    Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
    Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
    Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
    Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
    George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
    J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

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