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Chris Saines, Director of [[QAGOMA|Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art]] confirmed that "Koenning’s eloquent requiem for Lake Mountain is a remarkably composed and restrained but still urgent and insistent ''cri de coeur''. It asks us to reflect on the terms of our coexistence with nature, and their sustainability, in an age of environmental crisis."<ref>{{Cite web|title=ReadingRoom, Melbourne|url=https://areadingroom.com/footnotes/1113/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref> Annika Lems describes Katrin Koenning's photographs as "a landscape of intimate moments".<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lems, Annika | title=A country big enough to disappear in | date=2014 | publisher=Swinburne University of Technology | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191159728 | access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref>
Chris Saines, Director of [[QAGOMA|Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art]] confirmed that "Koenning’s eloquent requiem for Lake Mountain is a remarkably composed and restrained but still urgent and insistent ''cri de coeur''. It asks us to reflect on the terms of our coexistence with nature, and their sustainability, in an age of environmental crisis."<ref>{{Cite web|title=ReadingRoom, Melbourne|url=https://areadingroom.com/footnotes/1113/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref> Annika Lems describes Katrin Koenning's photographs as "a landscape of intimate moments".<ref>{{Citation | author1=Lems, Annika | title=A country big enough to disappear in | date=2014 | publisher=Swinburne University of Technology | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191159728 | access-date=27 August 2021}}</ref>

Del Barrett and Katherine Riley in noting Koenning’s inclusion in Hundred+Heroines, an independent charity founded by Barrett, previously vice president of the [[Royal Photographic Society]], cite her series ''Swell'', a protest against the Australian government’s restrictions on green activism, and her distinctive "intuitive, experimental" yet still documentary, approach.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Heroines|first=Del Barrett and Katherine Riley / Hundred+|date=2020-12-14|title=Seven groundbreaking female photographers – in pictures|url=http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/dec/14/hundred-heroines-outstanding-female-photographers-around-world-in-pictures|access-date=2021-08-28|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref>


Koenning lives and works in Melbourne<ref>{{Citation | author1=Rogers, Fiona | author2=Houghton, Max, (author.) | title=Firecrackers : female photographers now | publication-date=2017 | publisher=Thames and Hudson | isbn=978-0-500-54474-7}}</ref> where she is represented by Reading Room Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ReadingRoom, Melbourne|url=https://areadingroom.com/artists/katrin-koenning/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref>
Koenning lives and works in Melbourne<ref>{{Citation | author1=Rogers, Fiona | author2=Houghton, Max, (author.) | title=Firecrackers : female photographers now | publication-date=2017 | publisher=Thames and Hudson | isbn=978-0-500-54474-7}}</ref> where she is represented by Reading Room Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ReadingRoom, Melbourne|url=https://areadingroom.com/artists/katrin-koenning/|access-date=2021-08-27|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Awards ==
== Awards ==


Revision as of 01:31, 28 August 2021

Katrin Koenning (born 1978, Bochum, Germany ) is a German-born Australian photographer and photojournalist whose work has been exhibited and published since 2007.

Biography

Katrin Koenning was born and grew up in Bochum, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. Later, to continue a relationship, in 2002, aged twenty-four, she moved to Australia where her father and aunt had emigrated in the late ‘90s. She studied documentary photography, gaining a Bachelor of Photography with High Distinction at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, during which she achieved Academic Excellence Awards in 2004 and 2006, and which she completed in 2007.[1]

Photographer

Koenning took up photography after the death in a plane crash of a close friend. During 2007 to 2008 she was Picture Editor for Picturing Human Rights[2] and Tell My Story,[3] publications of the Australian PhotoJournalist Magazine and in 2009 to 2010 Editor of their Silent Screams: Rights of the Child.[4] Koenning's photo essays have been published in, among many others, The New Yorker, FT Magazine, British Journal of Photography, The Guardian, Human Rights Defender, The New York Times, Der Spiegel, The Independent,[5] and SBS Australia.

Photographic educator

Koenning started her teaching career in Journalism, Journalistic Investigation and Reporting, University of Queensland in 2008 and has since presented lectures, artist talks, workshops and conference papers in Australia and internationally in Bangladesh (2017), Germany (2015, 2018, 2019), Cambodia (2017), New Zealand (2018), and elsewhere.

She taught in 2016 at Anjali Children's workshop, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia, the Australian Centre for Photography Workshop Intensive, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne (2018), Photo Kathmandu, Nepal (2018), Angkor Photo Workshops, Siem Reap Cambodia (2019), Myanmar Deitta, Yangon Myanmar (2019), University of Tasmania (2020), University of Applied Arts Vienna (2020), Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Dhaka Bangladesh (2020), and as a lecturer in Bachelor of Arts Photography courses at RMIT University (2020) and Photography Studies College (2020, 2021)

Recognition

In 2016 Koenning's first book, Astres Noirs,[6] received the Australian Photobook of the Year Award and was shortlisted for both Prix Nadar and the Paris Photo/Aperture First Book Award.[7]

In 2019 she won the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, having been selected as a finalist in 2018 and 2014, when she was also awarded the People’s Choice Award. The 14 th edition of the Bowness Photography Prize captures the zeitgeist of contemporary Australian photography as a reflection of the broader social and political environment within which we all live. Anouska Phizacklea, Director of Monash Gallery of Art, in bestowing her 2019 Award remarked that;

Katrin’s work speaks with quiet restraint about an issue that will define our generation – the loss of our landscape and the destruction of our planet. It is a powerful reflection on an intense event that left our bush in cinders and took a horrific toll on communities with the loss of so many loved ones. The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires left an indelible mark on Victorians and its memory is a stark reminder of the frailty of our communities and the environment, and our susceptibility to extreme weather events as our climate changes. We are delighted that this work will join MGA’s permanent collection.

Chris Saines, Director of Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art confirmed that "Koenning’s eloquent requiem for Lake Mountain is a remarkably composed and restrained but still urgent and insistent cri de coeur. It asks us to reflect on the terms of our coexistence with nature, and their sustainability, in an age of environmental crisis."[8] Annika Lems describes Katrin Koenning's photographs as "a landscape of intimate moments".[9]

Del Barrett and Katherine Riley in noting Koenning’s inclusion in Hundred+Heroines, an independent charity founded by Barrett, previously vice president of the Royal Photographic Society, cite her series Swell, a protest against the Australian government’s restrictions on green activism, and her distinctive "intuitive, experimental" yet still documentary, approach.[10]

Koenning lives and works in Melbourne[11] where she is represented by Reading Room Gallery.[12]

Awards

  • 2019: Bowness Photography Prize
  • 2017: Australian Photobook of the Year Award[7]
  • 2016: Conscientious Portfolio Competition
  • 2015: Daylight Photo Award
  • 2014: People's Choice, Bowness Photography Prize
  • 2014: Merit Award, Moreton Bay Region Art Award
  • 2014: Lens Mist Award, City of Kingston
  • 2012: JGS Award, Forward Thinking Museum
  • 2012: New York Photo Festival by Invitation
  • 2011: HeadOn Portrait Prize, Critic's Choice Award
  • 2011: Australia's Top Emerging Documentary Photographer
  • 2010: Troika Editions Format Exposure Prize, London UK[13][14]

Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2021: the kids are in trouble, Chennai Photo Biennale, India
  • 2021: Tisseurs d'Images, German Influences, Angers, France
  • 2019: the kids are in trouble, Reading Room, Melbourne Australia
  • 2019: Myanmar Deitta, Yangon Myanmar
  • 2019: Swell, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Australia
  • 2018: The Crossing, Le Cloître ouvert, DI MEZZO, Paris France
  • 2018: New Works Commission for Lowlight Festival, SALT Contemporary, Queenscliff Australia
  • 2018: The Crossing, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
  • 2017: Astres Noirs, Paris Photo | East Wing Gallery, Paris France
  • 2017: Indefinitely, Organ Vida Festival, Galerija Kranjčar, Zagreb Croatia (Supported by Goethe-Institut and the Australian Embassy)
  • 2017: Dear Chris, Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka Bangladesh
  • 2016: Indefinitely, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough USA
  • 2016: Indefinitely, The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat Australia
  • 2015: Indefinitely, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
  • 2015: Fieber, PhotoIreland, Ireland
  • 2015: Indefinitely, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
  • 2015: Indefinitely, Photobook Melbourne, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne Australia
  • 2014: Dear Chris, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
  • 2014: Dear Chris, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia
  • 2013: Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, Colour Factory, Melbourne Australia
  • 2013: Dear Chris, officially opened by Helen Ennis, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne Australia[15]
  • 2012: Near, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
  • 2012: Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura..., Forward Thinking Museum
  • 2012: From a Changed North, HeadOn Photo Festival, MiCK Gallery, Sydney Australia
  • 2010: Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna at Front Room Gallery (Troika Editions), London UK
  • 2007: April, Flipbook Media, Brisbane Australia
  • 2007: Polaroid Transfers, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia

Publications

  • Koenning, Katrin; Protick, Sarker, (photographer.); Poimbœuf-Koizumi, Cécile, (editor.); Yogananthan, Vasantha, 1985-, (editor.); Pentagon, Atelier, (book designer.); Rolet, Léa, (editor.); Silvey, Tamsin, (editor.); Artisans du Regard (2016), Astres noirs (First ed.), Chose Commune, ISBN 978-2-9548777-2-3 {{citation}}: |author3= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)[16]
  • Breckon, Katie, (artist.); Koenning, Katrin, (artist.); Griffiths, Katherine, 1987-, (artist.); Eaton, Jackson, (artist.); Kochanowska, Belinda, (artist.); Borissova, Julia, (artist.); Queensland Centre for Photography, (host institution); Queensland University of Technology. International College (2014), Breckon, Katrin Koenning, Katherine Griffiths, Jackson Eaton, Belinda Kochanowska, Julia Borissova, QUT International College, Queensland Centre for Photography, retrieved 27 August 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Collections

  • Artbank
  • Monash Gallery of Art[17][18]
  • Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Galleries
  • Queensland Centre for Photography
  • Museum of Brisbane
  • Daryl Hewson Collection
  • Rockhampton Art Gallery Collection

References

  1. ^ Koenning, Katrin, (artist.) (2015), Katrin Koenning : Australian Art and Artists file, retrieved 27 August 2021{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Griffith University (2009), Picturing human rights, Australian Photojournalists, Griffith University, retrieved 27 August 2021
  3. ^ Lloyd, David (2007), Tell My Story, Octivium Press, retrieved 27 August 2021
  4. ^ Silent screams : rights of the child. Katrin Koenning, United Nations. General Assembly. South Bank, Qld.: Australian PhotoJournalist. 2010. ISBN 978-1-921760-18-1. OCLC 727000411.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ The Independent, Saturday, October 13, 2018
  6. ^ Koenning, Katrin (2016). Astres noirs. Sarker Protick (First ed.). Paris. ISBN 978-2-9548777-2-3. OCLC 954139235.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ a b "Astres Noirs by Katrin Koenning, Sarker Protick", Photofile (98): 120–121, 2017, ISSN 0811-0859
  8. ^ "ReadingRoom, Melbourne". Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  9. ^ Lems, Annika (2014), A country big enough to disappear in, Swinburne University of Technology, retrieved 27 August 2021
  10. ^ Heroines, Del Barrett and Katherine Riley / Hundred+ (2020-12-14). "Seven groundbreaking female photographers – in pictures". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-08-28.
  11. ^ Rogers, Fiona; Houghton, Max, (author.) (2017), Firecrackers : female photographers now, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-54474-7 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "ReadingRoom, Melbourne". Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  13. ^ "FORMAT International Photography Festival 2011". kunstaspekte.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  14. ^ Coomes, Phil. "BBC - Viewfinder: 20 minutes of light". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  15. ^ "IN THE GALLERIES.(Life & Style)", The Age (Melbourne, Australia), Fairfax Media Publications Pty Limited: 5, 2013-04-20, ISSN 0312-6307
  16. ^ étapes: 238: Design graphique & Culture visuelle. (2017). (n.p.): étapes éditions. p.199
  17. ^ "Katrin Koenning". www.mga.org.au. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
  18. ^ City of Monash. "Monash Gallery of Art Annual Report 2018–2019: Our Collections" (PDF). ISBN 978-1-876764-16-6.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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