Johanna Liebsch
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→ 2025 Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
→ 2024 geSCHLECHT, xponART, Hamburg
→ 2024 Collective Exhibition, Galerie Böhner, Mannheim
→ 2024 Solo Exhibition, Pop-Up Raum, Hamburg
→ 2023 ArtMuc, MTC Locations, Munich
→ 2023 InCorporating Artfair, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg
→ 2022 ArtMuc, MTC Locations, Munich
→ 2022 InCorporating Artfair, Oberhafenquartier, Hamburg
→ 2021 Studio Exhibition, Kreativ Speicher M28, Hamburg
→ 2017 Shortlist Felix Schöller Award, Architecture category
→ 2017 Entre frío y fusión, Laub & Partner, Hamburg
→ 2006 Young Fashion Design, MfK, Hamburg
→ 1998 Un instante de la vida, Altes Gaswerk, Hamburg
→ 1995 Fiestas tradicionales al espejo, Casa de la Cultura, Oaxaca
→ 1995 Migration, Museos Communitarios, Oaxaca
→ 1995 Three Days of Wedding, Museos Communitarios, Suchilquitongo
→ 1995 Pre-Colonial Customs, Museos Communitarios, Tepelmene
→ 1994 Arte popular, Museos Communitarios, Teotitlan del Valle
→ 1994 Carnival, Putla de Guerrerro, Museos Communitarios
→ 1994 25th Recontres International de la Photographie, Arles
→ 1993 Prize for Young Photojournalism, Herten
→ 1993 Nuestro oro, Galerie Gedok, Hamburg
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Scholarships & Awards
→ 2021 Scholarship Program – NEUSTART KULTUR
→ 2017 Shortlist Felix Schöller Award, Architecture category
→ 1994 Kodak Award, European Panorama of Young Professional Photography, Arles, France
→ 1994 Foreign Scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society, one-year stay, Oaxaca, Mexico
→ 1993 Prize for Young Photojournalism, International Photo Days, Herten
→ 1992 Foreign Scholarship from the Carl Duisberg Society, INAH, Oaxaca, Mexico
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Instagram:
→@joliebsch
Johanna Liebsch (*1964) studied at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK) and the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in Hamburg. She then worked for the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) in Mexico from 1992 to 1996. Her cultural and socially critical themes have been exhibited internationally on numerous occasions and have received awards including the Kodak Prize in Arles.
In her next creative phase, she worked in Hamburg as a freelance photographer, communication designer, publisher, and lecturer in photography, digital media, and video. Today, Johanna Liebsch is an artist who works conceptually at the interface between photography and painting. She is currently exploring a new narrative approach in which her photographs become objects.
EL MURO / ABOUT WALLS AND BARRIERS was initially a collection of walls, barriers, and materiality of all kinds that had been built up over many years. It was only later that I discovered that these photographs strongly reflect the special features or atmospheres of their locations, carrying them within themselves, as it were. I investigated this phenomenon, found confirmation, and walls, barriers, and materiality became for me a mirror of the ecological and social influences of their surroundings. At the same time, my artistic research became an archiving of places with which I have a special relationship and whose uniqueness, for various reasons, will not last in the long term or no longer exists.
About the submitted works:
A-TYPOLOGIES EL MURO In the series A-Typologies, I deliberately work with a concrete deviation from the typological canon. In order to make the context of the EL MURO project visible, I looked for an open system with more flexibility. Typologies rethought in order to draw attention to the message of the works and the challenges of our time.
