Katja Liebmann
*1965 Halle an der Saale Appointed member of the German Photographic Society (DGPh)
Lecturer for historic photographic processes and printmaking at Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, (since 2003)
C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E / EDUCATION
MA | Royal College of Art, London
MA | Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Since 2003 lecturer in early printmaking and historic photographic processes at Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg
Visits | London College of Communication, Royal College of Art,
Camberwell College of Art, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Hacettepe
University Ankara
EXHIBITIONS
2026 MEER – STUDIEN, Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Munich (group)
2026 KUNST HEUTE / Mecklenburg, Rundgang, New works (solo)
2026 PHOTO LONDON, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2026 BEYOND PHOTOGRAPHY (+ Catalogue), Galerie Dittmar, Berlin
(solo)
2025 LANDSCAPE & ALCHEMY, HackelBury Fine Art, London (duo)
2025 ROYAL ACADEMY of Arts, RA-Summer Exhibition, London
2025 KUNST HEUTE / Mecklenburg, New works (solo)
2024 SPUREN VERWISCHEN / OBSCURE TRACES, Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Munich (solo)
2024 HIGHLIGHTS / ART Fair Munich at Munich Residenz
2024 KUNST HEUTE / Mecklenburg, Rundgang, New works (solo)
2024 BLUES, The Oldenburg State Museum, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur (duo)
2024 ART KARLSRUHE / Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Munich
2023 ART MIAMI / HackelBury Fine Art, London
2023 PHOTOFAIRS New York / HackelBury Fine Art, London
2023 ERFAHRUNG DER LANDSCHAFT, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin with Georg Baselitz, Karl Bohrmann, Mona Breede, Enrico Della Torre, Marcel Gähler, Arnulf Rainer
2022 DUST IN THE WIND, HackelBury Fine Art, London (solo)
2021 PARIS PHOTO, with HackelBury Fine Art at Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
2021 WAITING II, HackelBury Fine Art, London (group)
2021 Retrospektiv II, Galerie CITIES AND LANDSCAPES IN MOTION Dittmar, Berlin (solo)
2021 PHOTO LONDON (DIGITAL), HackelBury Fine Art, London
2020 BERLIN-LONDON-NEW YORK Retrospective I, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin (solo)
2019 TWENTY ONE, HackelBury Fine Art, London (group)
2019 EARLY WORK, HackelBury Fine Art, London (solo)
2019 PARIS PHOTO and PHOTO LONDON, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2018 TWENTY, HackelBury Fine Art, London (group)
2017 BEDS AND MACHINERY, Galerie Berlinicke, Wildeshausen (solo)
2015 THE 22TH ANNUAL ARTSHOW, Westwerk, Leipzig (group)
2015 SOLID SLEEP, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg (solo)
2014 NATUR, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin (solo)
2014 A GRAM OF LIGHT, Museum for Industrial Culture Nuremberg,
curated by Christoph Schaden (group)
2013 GREEN ART, The Oldenburg State Museum (group)
2012 NEWS, Artothek, Oldenburg (group)
2012 BLAUE BLÄTTER, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin (solo)
2010 SEHNSUCHTSORTE II, Bremer Landesmuseum / Pelzerhäuser Emden (group)
2010 JOURNEY – HOUSES, Galerie Herold, Bremen (solo)
2010 DESTINATION WILHELMSHAVEN, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (group)
2010 REVERSE, Omsk Museum of Visual Arts (with Goethe-Instituten Novosibirsk) (group)
2010 JOURNEY – HOUSES, HackelBury Fine Art, London (solo)
2009 GERMAN LANDSCAPES, Galerie Dittmar, Berlin (+ Catalogue) (solo)
2009 BRIGHT SPOTS current positions-aesthetic experiments, Museumn for Art and Art History, Oldenburg (group)
2009 GERMAN LANDSCAPES, Kunstverein Vechta, Art Society Vechta (solo)
2009 THE SPACE between man and camera, Goethe Institute Ankara, Artist talk and Exhibition (solo)
2009 GENIUS LOCI, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, VI. Novosibirsk Graphic Art Biennial (group)
2008 CROSSROADS, Nomadic knowledge and art strategies, Bishkek Art Center, Kirgisien, org. by IFA and Goethe Institute (group)
2008 TRUTH IS WHAT CONNECTS US, Karl Jaspers Year 2008, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (solo)
2006 ECHT, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Art Society Oldenburg (solo)
2005 LONDON – BILDER Gallery Dittmar, Berlin (solo)
2002 LANDSSCAPES PART II, Charles Saatchi Gallery, London (group)
2002 100% PHOTOGRAPHY, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2002 ST. JAMES GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE, Flowers East, London
(group)
2001 BERLIN 328, HackelBury Fine Art, London (solo)
2001 BERLIN ORNAMENTS, Goethe Institute, London (solo)
2000 MODERN TIMES III, Hasselblad Centre, Goeteborg (group)
2000 Sotheby’s, London, „Contemporary Art“ Exhibition 2000 (group)
1999 INSPIRIT, Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery (group)
1999 LONDONIA, LONDINIA Photographers Gallery, London (solo)
1999 EYES OF MARCH, The Lux Center, London, LEA-Gallery (group)
1998 URBAN LANDSCAPES, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, with Stephen Pippin (duo)
1998 THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, Citibank Photography Prize (renamed: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize) show of the shortlisted: Andreas Gursky, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thomas Demand
1997 THE JOHN KOBAL Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London (group)
1997 GLOVES OFF!, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (group)
1996 LIQUID, David Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London (group)
1996 PALIMPSEST BERLIN, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Rouen
1996 Palimpsest Berlin, Cityhall, 6th arrondissement, Paris
ART FAIRS
PARIS PHOTO / ART MIAMI / PHOTO LONDON / AIPAD / PHOTO LONDON
DIGITAL / PHOTOFAIRS NEW YORK / ART KARLSRUHE / HIGHLIGHTS
MUNICH
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2002 Shortlisted for „St. James Group Photography Prize“
2001 „Scholarship of the Hasselblad Foundation“, Goeteborg, Sweden
1998 Citibank Photography Prize, Shortlist (Deutsche Börse Photography
Prize)
1997 „Deloitte & Touche Prize for Excellence“, org. by Royal College of
Art, London
1997 „John Purcell Paper Prize“, London
1996 „Renaissance Art Award“, Aylesbury, London
1995 „DAAD Scholarship“ for London
COLLECTIONS
The Collection of the German Bundestag
Collection of the Oldenburg State Museum (Landesmuseum für Kunst und
Kultur)
The graphic Collection of the Royal College of Art, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Charles Saatchi Collection, London
Rubell Collection Miami
LzO Art Collection (Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg)
Collection of the Bishkek Art Centre, Kyrgyzstan
The Omsk Museum of Visual Arts
ARTIST TALKS
2025 Artist Talk with Diane Smyth (Editor British Journal of
Photography), Landscape & Alchemy, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2025 Q&A between HackelBury Fine Art and Katja Liebmann, Exhibition
„Dust in the Wind“
2022 Interview by Tracy Calder: „Remembrance of Things Past“ at Black
& White Photography Magazine Nr.236
2019 Interview by Daniel Pateman: „Katja Liebmann Early Work“ at
Photomonitor Magazine, 05/2019
2019 Artist Talk Nigel Warburton Katja Liebmann at the Preview of
„Early Work“, 2019, HackelBury Fine Art
2019 Interview by Alisa Mc Whinnie: „Into the Blue“ Black & White
Photography Magazine
2010 Goethe Institute Ankara, „The space between man and camera“,
Artist talk and solo exhibition at the Goethe Institute Gallery
Ankara
2009 Artist lecture and workshop at Hacettepe – University, Ankara
BIBLIOGRAPHY / REVIEWS
2026 Review of the exhibition „Beyond Photography“, Tagesspiegel,
Berlin, Hans-Jörg Rother, 06. Juni 2026
2026 Brian Dillon, Essay, Catalogue „Beyond Photography“, 1994-2024,
Edition Dittmar
2026 Rolf Sachsse, Text for Catalogue „Katja Liebmann, Beyond
Photography“, 1994-2024, Edition Dittmar
2025 Review / Musee Magazine, 17/7/25, Anna R. Goldwitz, Exhibition
„Landscape & Alchemy“, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2025 Review / Impulse Magazine, 22/7/25, Nico Kos Earle, Exhibition
„Landscape & Alchemy“, HackelBury Fine Art, London
2021 Text by Tracy Calder for „Artdoc Magazine“, 12/2021, „Cyanotypes as memories“, The text features the new series, ‚Dust in The Wind‘
2019 Black+White Photography, „Remembrance of Things Passed“,
Interview mit Tracy Calder
2012 Peter Dittmar / Text for Private View „Natur“ new Photographic work, Galerie Dittmar
2012 Isolde Loock / Text for Exhibition „Die Fahrt/Häuser“ Gallery
Herold, Bremen 2010 Blueprint The Leading Magazine of Architecture and Design,
Featuring the exhibition at HackelBury Fine Art, 04/2010 2006 Jürgen Weichardt, Text for Catalogue „Deutsche Landschaften /
German Landscapes“ transl. by Dan Loganathan, ISBN: 3-9806903- 7-7, Edition Dittmar, Berlin
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026 „Beyond Photography“, Catalogue, Edition Dittmar Berlin, ISBN: 978-3-9823153-4-8
2024 Publication alongside the exhibition „BLUES“, State Museum Oldenburg, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kultur
2014 „A Gram of Light“, Catalogue, Museum for Industrial Culture, Nuremberg, ISBN: 978-3731901471
2010 „Destination Wilhelmshaven“, Catalogue, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, ISBN: 978-3930510412
2009 „Bright spots / Lichtblicke“, Catalogue, Museum for Art and Arthistory, Oldenburg, ISBN: 978-3930537983
2009 „German Landscapes“, Catalogue, Edition Dittmar, Berlin, ISBN: 3-9806903-7-7
2001 „I am a Camera“, Catalogue, The Saatchi Gallery, publ. by Booth-Clibborn Editions
1999 „Modern Times III“, Catalogue, Hasselblad Centre, Göteborg
1998 „The New Neurotic Realism“, Catalogue, The Saatchi Gallery, London
1997 „The Citibank Photography Prize“ / („Deutsche Börse Photography Prize“), Catalogue, The Photographers Gallery, London
