Claudia Fährenkemper

Claudia Fährenkemper (b. 1959, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany) has used photography for over thirty years to explore the strange beauty of manmade or natural objects by isolating them in some way from their environment. She studied under Bernd and Hilla Becher at the prestigious Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1989 until 1995 and has since produced series in landscape, machinery, photomicroscopy, and most recently, formal portraits of 15th- to 19th-century suits of armour. Since 1989, Fährenkemper has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and Asia. Her work has been collected by museums of art, as well as by museums of history, including the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, Korea; Sprengel-Museum, Hannover, Germany; and the Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland. Fährenkemper is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery.

Claudia Fährenkemper
Claudia Fährenkemper, D-02-11-3 Courtesy of Rüstkammer Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany, 2011 (gelatin silver print, 22.75×18.5in), from the series Armor. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery. © Claudia Fährenkemper

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