Katrin Koenning is a photographer based in Naarm Melbourne, Austraila on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country. Probing the currencies of the document, Katrin Koenning’s work stretches across still and moving images and text, at times including found materials. In her extended image – dialogues she uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that are open, fluid and multiplicit.
KATRIN KOENNING
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- Astres Noirs
- The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
The Kids Are In Trouble
Katrin Koenning is a photographer originally from Ruhrgebiet, Germany, based in Naarm Melbourne, Austraila on unceded Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung country. Probing the currencies of the document, Koenning’s work stretches across still and moving images and text, at times including found materials. In her extended image dialogues she uses fragments and slippages to suggest narrative spaces, communities and lived experiences that are open, fluid and multiplicit.
Koenning’s artistic practice centers on themes of connection and relation, positing imaginaries with a greater than human world. Many of her longform series render nonhuman entanglement and intimate kin.
Koenning is the recipient of multiple awards, including, the Bowness Photography Prize (Australia). Her work has been exhibited in Australia and internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including presentations at Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (UAE), Chobi Mela International Festival of Photography (BD), Paris Photo Art Fair (FR), Hamburg Triennial of Photography (DE), Monash Gallery of Art (AU) and Australian Centre for Photography, among others.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
The kids are in trouble, Reading Room, Melbourne Australia
Myanmar Deitta, Yangon Myanmar
Swell, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Australia
2018
The Crossing, Le Cloître ouvert, DI MEZZO, Paris France
New Works Commission for Lowlight Festival, SALT Contemporary, Queenscliff Australia
The Crossing, Hamburg Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2017
Astres Noirs, Paris Photo | East Wing Gallery, Paris France
Indefinitely, Organ Vida Festival, Galerija Kranjčar, Zagreb Croatia
Dear Chris, Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka Bangladesh
2016
Indefinitely, Daylight Project Space, Hillsborough USA
Indefinitely, The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat Australia
2015
Indefinitely, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
Fieber, PhotoIreland, Ireland
Indefinitely, Athens Photo Festival, Greece
Indefinitely, Photobook Melbourne, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2014
Dear Chris, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
Dear Chris, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia
2013
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, Colour Factory, Melbourne Australia
Dear Chris, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne Australia
2012
Near, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Australia
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura…, Forward Thinking Museum
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
Polaroid Transfers, Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023
Slippery Pictures, Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne AU
2022
Of Embers, Maroondah City Council, Melbourne Australia
Like Yesterday, Redcliffe Art Gallery, QLD AU
Maps of Disquiet, Chennai Photo Festival, India
Return to Nature, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne Australia
Collection Focus: Up to Us, Rockhampton Museum of Art, Australia
Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Award, HOTA Gold Coast, Australia
Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, AU
Persona, QCA Galleries, Brisbane Australia
Centre for Contemporary Photography fundraiser, Melbourne Australi
Animalis, Perth Centre for Photography, Australia
2021
Static in the Air curated by Sohrab Hura, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai UAE
Growing Like A Tree curated by Sohrab Hura, Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai UAE
Photobooks – Art Page by Page, Grassi Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig
Échappées belles, Brussels Saint Gilles
Clouded – A few isolated Showers, Castlemaine Art Museum, Australia
Her beauty and her Terror – Caboolture Regional Gallery, QLD Australia
Bowness Prize Celebrates 15 Years, Smith & Singer, Melbourne Australia
Pott & Indefinitely, Influences Festival, Angers, France
2020
Swell, Breda Photo Festival, Belgium
Informality Gallery at Stone House, London UK
From all Points of the Southern Sky, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Florida 2020 what’s outside the window, ReadingRoom online, Melbourne Australia
2019
Undercurrents, Transformer Station, Cleveland USA
The Portrait, Home Gallery, Sydney Australia
Noorderlicht 30 Years, Martini Plaza, Groningen Netherlands
Peckham24, London England
The Crossing, Bienal Fotografio do Porto, Portugese Centre of Photography, Portugal
Restless Acts as part of Jack’s Reloaded, Jack’s Magazine, Melbourne Australia
The Crossing, Re-thinking environment, DL Gallery, Athens Greece
Successions / Collisions, Zephyr Mannheim, Mannheim Germany
2018
Entity of Spatial Existence, SIPF, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
Idiot Pack Noise, Brightspace St. Kilda, Melbourne Australia
Indefinitely, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Germany
We Feed the World Project, Bargehouse Gallery, London UK
Look up at the Sky, Sala Muncunill, Terrassa Spain
2017
The Real and Other Places, CCP & Photo Shanghai, Shanghai China
Turtles all the way down, Collisions, Channels Festival, Melbourne Australia
An Unorthodox Flow of Images, CCP, Melbourne Australia
The Crossing, Franque, Melbourne Australia
Pott, f2 Fotofestival, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund Germany
The Crossing, FORMAT Festival, Derby UK
Golden Record, Fotogalleriet, Oslo Norway
Aperture Photobook Awards, Madrid / Düsseldorf / Moscow / Switzerland / Sweden
2016
30th Anniversary, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia
Geografies (Look up at the Sky), EspaiDos, Terrassa Spain
Das Licht der Nacht, Kommunale Gallerie Berlin, Germany
International Young Photographers, Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Indefinitely, BELONGING, Obscura Photo Festival, Penang Malaysia
The Crossing, ARENA, Noorderlicht Festival, Museum Bellevedere, Netherlands
The Crossing, CCP Declares: On the Social Contract, CCP, Melbourne Australia
The Crossing, Transfer, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Australia
Dear Chris, The Leftovers, Verge Gallery Sydney Australia
Documentum, Poem 88 Gallery, Atlanta USA
Victorian Women Working in Photography, Gaffa, Sydney Australia
2015
Terra Australis, Galerie Pavlova, Berlin Germany
Pulse, Nooderlicht Festival, Groningen Netherlands
Moreton Bay Regional Council Art Collection, Caboolture Regional Art Gallery, Australia
Transduction #18, Pause Festival, ACMI, Melbourne, Australia
2014
15 Artists, Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Queensland Australia
This is not Detroit, Musisches Zentrum, Bochum Germany
Genesis, HeadOn Photo Festival, M Contemporary Gallery, Sydney Australia
Formality, Trocadero ARI, Melbourne Australia
2012
Loraine and the Illusion of Illoura, New York Photo Festival, New York USA
Hijacked III: AUS / UK, Photofusion Gallery, London UK
____on this site, Wallflower Photomedia Gallery, Mildura Australia
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Carbon Black Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Near, Hijacked III: AUS / UK, QUAD Gallery, Derby UK
2011
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Noorderlicht Festival, Groningen Netherlands
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna at FORMAT Festival, Derby, UK
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Nofound Photo Fair, Paris France
Near, Inaugural Delhi International Photography Festival, Delhi India
Thirteen:Twenty Lacuna, Museum of Architecture, Tallin Estonia
2008
Ten Days in August, Museum of Brisbane, Australia
Daryl Hewson Collection, QUT Art Gallery & Queensland State Library, Brisbane Australia