Christa Frieda Vogel

Christa Frieda Vogel is a German photographer who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She has published several photo books and presented her work in national and international exhibitions.

Biography

Christa Frieda Vogel was born in 1960 in Meppen, Emsland in Germany, and studied graphic design from 1982 to 1988 at what is now the Berlin University of the Arts. While working as a make-up artist she acquired a private pilot license (PPLA, CVFR, KFB). In 2000 she became a founding member of the Fotoschule am Schiffbauerdamm and worked as a curator and exhibition manager at the Postfuhramt Berlin. Travels have led her to Venice, Croatia and Macedonia, as well as to Georgia and Turkey. In Turkey she lived and worked as a photographer and curator from 2009 to 2013. In 2013 she moved back to Berlin.[1]

Works

Vogel's photography is mostly documentary: In the series (and book) Georgien (Georgia) she photographed people as if they were their own monuments. Her pictorial strategy rests, both in color and black and white images, on the long shot and the central figure.[2] For her exhibition and book project Artistanbul Vogel portrayed 34 fine artists, male and female, of three generations in Istanbul and accompanied them to their favourite places. During the two years of work on this series she established the gallery project Galata House of Art in Beyoğlu which hosts both artists from Berlin and Istanbul. It was there where Vogel presented in 2011 her Artistanbul-series flanked by works of the portrayed, among them Ara Güler, Burhan Doğançay, Mahmut Celayir, Erdoğan Zumrutoğlu and Hande Varsat.[3] Those of Vogel's works which are not primarily documentary, like the polaroids of "Erotica", approach the subjects also by means of close-up and blur. Similar strategies are employed within the "Blaues Wunder" series (Blue Miracle) as a study of the (under-)water world in general whilst the b/w series Jellyfish focuses in particular on the bizarre bodies of the gelatinous creatures.[4]

Publications
  • Einblicke. B&S Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-936962-03-0
  • Georgien. Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit (introductory notes by Alexander Kartosia and Thomas Roth), Edition Braus, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89904-305-1[5]
  • Artistanbul: Contemporary Artists Present Their Favourite Places. Seltmann + Söhne, Lüdenscheid 2011 und 2013, ISBN 978-3-934687-95-0[6] (also exhibition catalogue with an essay by Johannes Odenthal)

Exhibitions (selection)

References
  1. Cfr. Christa Frieda Vogel'den Bir Fotoğraf ve Sergi Projesi, in Haberler (Turkish Magazine), 7 September 2011.
  2. Cfr. Ein Aufruf gegen den Krieg ('A Call against War' review), in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 27 November 2008, R 10.
  3. Cfr. Christa Frieda Vogel'den Bir Fotoğraf ve Sergi Projesi, in SonDakika.com, 7 September 2011; Galata-House-of-Art.; Pinar Abut: Erzählt mir über eure Stadt! ('Tell me about Your City!'), in DIE WELT kompakt, 22 November 2011; cfr. also Art 350: The Newest Gallery on the Asian Side Archived 2014-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, at theguideistanbul.com, March 2012.
  4. Cfr. Artist's portrait Archived September 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine in Magazinsel (Turkish Newspaper), 29 August 2012.
  5. Cfr. Christa Frieda Vogel: Georgien. Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit, Robert Bosch Stiftung.
  6. Cfr. Artistanbul at Seltmann Printart.
  7. Cfr. article on artnet.de
  8. Cfr. Pinar Abut, Erzählt mir über eure Stadt! Ein Bildband zeigt türkische Kunstschaffende im Porträt und deren Lieblingsplätze in Istanbul (review), in DIE WELT kompakt, 22 November 2011.
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