ANNE KATHRIN GREINER

Photographer

www.akgreiner.com

About the artist

Anne Kathrin Greiner was born and raised in the South of Germany. In 1996, she moved to Scotland and she graduated with a 1st Class Honours degree from the photography and film programme at Napier University in Edinburgh in 2002. The following year, she relocated to London to study on the Master fine art photography course at the Royal College of Art. Greiner’s work has been awarded numerous awards and has been exhibited widely. She currently lives in Berlin where she continues to work as an artist, freelance photographer and lecturer.

Education

2003 - 2005
Royal College of Art, London, England
Master of Fine Arts (Photography & Video)

1998 - 2002
Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bachelor of Arts (Photography, Film and Imaging (1st Class))

Selected Awards &  Grants

2010
Goldrausch Künstlerinnen art iT, Scholarship

2009
Selected for PHPA (Photo d’Hotel, Photo d’Auteur)
Sotiri International Prize for Young Photographers (2nd edition)
Europe and Asia – Dialogue of Cultures , Runner-up

2008
Raymond Weil International Photography Prize, Shortlist

2007
Raymond Weil International Photography Prize, Shortlist
Flash Forward 2007, Magenta Foundation for the Arts, UK Winner
Reykjavik residency, SíM - The Association of Icelandic Artists
SCREENings Fotografiepreis, Shortlist

2006
Raymond Weil International Photography Prize, Shortlist
British Council, Travel Bursary

2005
Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Art, Runner-up
Hewlett Packard/RCA photography competition, Winner
European Leica Prize, Runner-up
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, selected

2004
Kyoto residency, awarded by Royal College of Art & KCUA
Jerwood Photography Awards 2004, Shortlist
Student Photographer of the Year, AOP Awards
European Leica Prize, Runner-up
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2004, Shortlist
The Sir Richard Stapley Trust, Bursary

Selected Exhibitions

Solo:

Anne Kathrin Greiner - Fotografien, Kunstverein Husum e.V., Husum, Germany (2009)
Where I end and you begin, Galerie der Volksbank Kreis Bergstrasse, Weinheim, Germany (2008)
Anne Kathrin Greiner: The Lodgers, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Iceland (2008) [cat.]
Theatres of Play II - Fotografien von Anne Kathrin Greiner, Galerie Kunstschwimmer, Berlin, Germany (2008)
Secrets and Mysteries, Zephyr / Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany (2006)
Black and Light, Mailbox Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (2004)
Anne Kathrin Greiner: Landscapes, Kyoto-Arts, Kyoto, Japan (2004) [cat.]
Disciplined Spaces, Exposure 2004, Hereford Photography Festival, England (2004) [cat.]
Photographs by Anne Kathrin Greiner, ECL, Edinburgh, Scotland (2001)

Group:
Carte Blanche, Clarke Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2010)
Atlántica Colectivas, Fotonoviembre Tenerife (Fotofestival), Tenerife, Spain (2009) [cat.]
Urban Spaces, FotoRio 2009 (Fotofestival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2009)
Sotiri Prize 2009, Sotiri House, Korçe, Albania; Academy of the Arts, Tirana, Albania (2009)
Europe and Asia - Dialogue of Cultures, House of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia (2009) [cat.]
Nachtleben, Galerie Degenhartt, Berlin, Germany (2008)
nachtundnebel08 (Neuköllner Kunstnacht), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Kaunas Photo 2007 - Fourth Festival of Photography, Kaunas, Lithuania (2007) [cat.]      
Leigjendurnir - The Lodgers, SíM Galerie Seljavegur, Reykjavik, Iceland (2007)
Forbidden Spectacle, Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta (2007)
Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany (2007) [cat.]          
Salon, Kunstverein D21, Haushalten e.V., Leipzig, Germany (2006)
London Elsewhere, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany (2006)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, Barbican Art Centre, London, England (2005) [cat.]
London in Zurich, curated by Gregor Muir, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland (2005) [cat.]
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, Spike Island, Bristol, England (2005) [cat.]
Prix Leica, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, England (2005)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England (2005) [cat.]
Like Nowhere Else, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, England (2005) [cat.]
Ryugakusei Ten, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan (2004)
La Réalité dans 24 Images par Minute, Kyoto-Arts, Kyoto, Japan (2004)
AOP Student Awards 2004, AOP Gallery & Vision 2004, London, England (2004) [cat.]
Made in London, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium (2004)       
Eight, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, England (2003)
…and you will know…, The New Street Exhibition Space, Edinburgh, Scotland (2002)
20”x 24" Polaroid Portraits, Scottish National Portrait Gallery & KJP Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2001)
Photographs for Sick Kids, Phillips Auctioneers, Edinburgh, Scotland (2001) [cat.]

Bibliography (selection)

The Scotsman, Susan Mansfield, ‘Festival Reviews’ (18/08/2009)
Peeping Tom Magazine, ‘Peeping Tom Digest #1 (The Berlin Issue)’ (launched 23rd May 2009)
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, ‘Menschenleere Bilder füllen eine Ausstellung’ (27/10/2008)
Weinheimer Nachrichten, ‘Magische Wechselwirkung’ (16/10/2008, p.12)
Iceland Review, ‘The Lodgers’, Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir (06/2008)
The Reykjavík Grapevine, ‘The Lodgers’, Steinunn Jákobsdóttir (issue 6, 23/05/08, p.44)
DV, ‘Yfirgefin herstöd’, Kristján H. Gudmundsson (06.06.2008, p.26)
Foto & Video Review, ‘Portfolio: Presentaziya schesty’, Dr.Irina Tchmyreva (10/2007, p.140-145)
Fréttabladid, ‚Syn leigjendanna’ (02.07.2007)
Grafik, ‘Review 2006: Pick of the Year’ (12/2006-01/2007, p.26)­­­­­­­­
Mannheimer Morgen, ‘Kunst, die uns zärtlich und leise den Atem nimmt’ (26.08.2006)
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, ‘Neue Töne in der britischen Kunstszene’ (17/08/2006)
Die Rheinpfalz, ‘Rundgang durch Mannheimer Galerien’ (29/07/2006)
Zoom Italy, ‘Vision Germany’, Cristina Franzoni (07-08/2006, p.16)
www.portalkunstgeschichte.de, 'Finstre Idyllen' (08/06/2006)
Die Rheinpfalz, ’Theater der Dinge’, Kai Scharffenberger (06/2006)
Meier,‘Secrets and Mysteries’, Eva Mayer (01/06/2006)
DAMA School of Creative Industries, Napier University (commissioned article), 06/2006, p.4)
Photography Now #2/2006, ‘Secrets and Mysteries’ (p.27/28)

Grafik #141, ‘Talent’, Angharad Lewis (06/2006, p.36/37)
Mannheimer Morgen, ‘Geheimnisvolle Spuren’, Bernadett Gross (30/05/2006)
Contemporary ‘Annual 2006: 50 International Emerging Artists’, review by Katie Kitamura (p.56/57)
Camera Austria,Forum (92/2005, p.58/59)
www.studio-international.co.uk, ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005’ (09/12/2005)
The Times, ‘True Artists? Or Great Pretenders?’, Mark Irving (12/11/2005)
www.telegraph.co.uk, ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2005’
a-n, cover image (11/2004, 02/2005, 09/2005)
HotShoe International, #132, ‘exposure 2004’(p.66)
Image, ‘AOP Student Awards 2004’ (06/2004, p.19)
Portfolio #36, ‘Anne Kathrin Greiner: Disciplined Spaces’(12/2002, p.32-35)
The List ‘Framespotting’, #442(05/2002)
Exact,#66 (11/2001, p.16/17)