Corina Gertz

Edition 6 + 2 AP, pigment print on fine art paper behind museum glass in black wooden frame. Two sizes are available 36×24″ and 40×29 1/2″. Price on request.

Find here more information about the series: The Averted Portrait written by Clare Freestone of The National Portrait Gallery London, UK and find here the link to the artist’s recent publication.

Corina Gertz
lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany

Vita

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2023
Identity & Culture, together with Michaël Aerts, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, D

Galerija FLU, Belgrade, SRB

2022
Corina Gertz – The Averted Portrait, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, D

2021
Corina Gertz – Miteinander, UNO Art Space, Stuttgart, D

Schubert & Gertz – Voneinander, (together with Anne Schubert), UNO Art Space, Stuttgart, D

thekitchenhappening21, curated by Judith Samen, Düsseldorf, D

2019
Lianzhou Photo Museum, Lianzhou, Guangdong, CHN (catalogue)

2018
Das abgewandte Porträt – Zwischen August Sander und Vermeer (The Averted Portrait – Between August Sander and Vermeer), Galerie Peter Tedden zu Gast bei Matthias Erntges, Düsseldorf, D (catalogue)

Das abgewandte Porträt, in context of Tracht oder Mode – Die europäische Sammlung Paul Prött, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, D

2014
Illusions Never Die, together with Gudrun Teich, Organhaus, Chongqing, CHN

2011
KunstwerkSTADT Pößneck, D

2010
Under Shiva’s Shield, Visual Gallery, Photokina, Cologne, D (catalogue)

2009
Under Shiva’s Shield, Textile Museum Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, IND

2005
Beauty of Kaokoveld, Syrius, Düsseldorf, D

Beauty of Kaokoveld, Back Lane Art Gallery, Aachen, D

Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023
Love for Detail, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, D
Costume X Fashion – Kostüme als Inspiration für Kunst und Mode (Theatrical costumes as inspiration for art and fashion), Theatermuseum im Hofgärtnerhaus, Düsseldorf, D
SURFACE, Museum of Science and Technology, Dresden, D (catalogue)

Rethinking Identities, MNHA Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, LUX (catalogue)

Global SinoPhoto Awards Exhibition, FUJIFILM House of Photography, London, UK

2022
DongGang International Photo Festival 2022, KOR (catalogue)

Die Macht des Mythos, DA! Art Award, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, D

traurig heiter – 2 Wolken, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, D

2021
Look! Enthüllungen zu Kunst und Fashion (Look! Revelations on Art and Fashion), Marta Herforf, D (catalogue)

DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, D (catalogue)

2020
Fleurs, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, D

Reconstruction, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CHN

Fùchûn, KENNAXU Gallery, Shenzhen, CHN

Cloud Project, Nine Art Space, Shanghai, CHN

maritica si ia ei, Galeria M3, Ferma de Artă Liteni-Moara, ROU

2019
Très Chic – Mode in der Kunst, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, D (catalogue)

I’m Comin’ Home, South x Southeast photogallery, Molena, Georgia, USA

Mood In Heart, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CHN

Puterea persistentei, Palatul Mogoșoaia, Bucarest, ROU

DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, D (catalogue)

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction, A Sino-German Exhibition Project, Artron Art Center, Shenzhen, CHN (catalogue)

PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Nine Art Space shows works by Corina Gertz, Shanghai, CHN

2018
Jenseits des Dokumentarischen, Städtische Galerie Iserlohn, D (catalogue)

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction, A Sino-German Exhibition Project, GCA The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CHN (catalogue)

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction, A Sino-German Exhibition Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sanya, CHN (catalogue)

DIE GROSSE, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, D (catalogue)

2nd Shenzhen International Photography Exhibition, CHN

Tianshui Photo Biennale, CHN (catalogue)

PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, Nine Art Space shows works by Corina Gertz, Shanghai, CHN

National Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, UZB (catalogue)

Emscher Gold – Sammlung Tedden, Galerie Münsterland e.V., Emsdetten, D (catalogue)

2017
Jenseits des Dokumentarischen, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Hannover, D (catalogue)

Jenseits des Dokumentarischen, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim – Bissingen, D (catalogue)

Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction, A Sino-German Exhibition Project, White Box Art Center, 798, Beijing, CHN (catalogue)

Photo Festival Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, CHN (catalogue)

Mizhi Cave House International Photography Art Festival, Shanxi, CHN

Art Space for Moving Image, Photo Beijing, CHN (catalogue)

2016
Photo Festival Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, CHN (catalogue)

2015
Beyond the Sphere of Reproduction, 6 German photographic Researchers, Photo Beijing, CHN (catalogue)

Back from Chongqing, Atelier am Eck, Düsseldorf, D

2014
Wedding Dresses 1775-2014, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
(catalogue)

Beijing Friends – From Phenomenon to Essence, Kunstverein Aalen, D

China Friends – From Phenomenon to Essence, DCKD, Düsseldorf, D

2013
Portas Abertas, Fórum Fundacao Eugénio de Almeida, Evora, PRT

In Out Space / Sculpture Architecture, Tipographia Hall, Bucarest, ROU

2012
The Wedding Dress: 200 Years Of Wedding Fashion, National Museum of Singapore, SGP (catalogue)

Unveiled, Western Australian Museum, Perth, AUS (catalogue)

2011
White Wedding Dress: 200 Years Of Wedding Fashion, Bindigo Art Gallery, Victoria, AUS (catalogue)

Unveiled: 200 Years Of Wedding Dress, Museum of New Zealand, NZL,
(catalogue)

Visual Aids, CRG Gallery, New York, USA

Embracing Our Differences, Island Park, Sarasota, Florida, USA (catalogue)

Water Bienniale, Bad Breisig, D (catalogue)

Eyes on Asia, Museo delle Culture del Mondo, Genova, ITA (catalogue)

2010
8 Views, 10 festival for fashion & photography, Vienna, AUT

ECO-Creations, fashion from recycled material, Longmont Council for the Arts / Muse Gallery, Longmont, Colorado, USA

Redux, fashion from recycled material, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, USA

2009
fashion illustrations from recycled materials, Art Center Mount Clement, Michigan, USA (honorable mention)

Sowing Seeds, International Artist Village Camp, SAR, Rajasthan, IND

Kaman Art Gallery, Jodhpur, IND (catalogue)

2007
Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, USA

Dt. Architektur Museum, Frankfurt a. M., D

Pro Arte Institute St. Petersburg, RUS

On behalf of the exhibition series Shrinking Cities, a project (2002-2008) of the Federal Cultural Foundation, under the direction of Philipp Oswalt (Berlin) in co-operation with the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the magazine archplus (catalogue)

2006
10. Int. Architekturbiennale, Venice, ITA

University of Tokio with Art Deco Museum, Tokio, JPN

Pralt Manhatten Gallery / von Alen Institute, New York, USA

On behalf of the exhibition series Shrinking Cities (catalogue)

2004
Namibia, A Separated History, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, D (catalogue)

Films / Documentaries / Books / Essays
2023
Corina Gertz – The Averted Portrait, Kerber Verlag

2018
Co-editor of the book Bauhaus und die Fotografie – Zum Neuen Sehen in der Gegenwartskunst (Bauhaus and Photography – On New Vision in Contemporary Art), together with Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaden and Prof. Dr. Kris Scholz, Kerber Verlag

2017
Editor of the book 80 Jahre Künstlersiedlung Golzheim about 8 decades of art produced in the artists’ colony Düsseldorf-Golzheim

Werkbund Akademiereihe 19 / Cracks, Holes, Fractures – Harmony and Disharmony in Architecture – author of a fashion-philosophical essay about the distressed style in fashion

Various fashion-philosophical articles for L’OFFICIEL Magazine LV

Fashion-philosophical article for THEO Magazine

2014
45′ documentary film Organhaus – Art between Yangtze and Rhine, – directing and producing – Premiere at the Düsseldorf Film Museum
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6pj8thWvI

2013
60′ documentary film Island along the Rhine – The Golzheim Artists’ Colony – directing and producing – Premiere at the Düsseldorf Film Museum, internationaly screened with English and Chinese subtitles
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAkb4g8gtk

2008
Editor of the book Künstler Tatorte – Künstlersiedlung Franz-Jürgens-Straße about the Düsseldorf artists’ colony, in colaboration with Prof. Annette Leyener and Prof. Dr. Kris Scholz, Edition Braus, Heidelberg

Awards and Residencies
2023
Artist in residence, University of the Arts in Belgrade, SRB

Artist in residence, Museum Kunst der Westküste, Föhr, D

Finalist Portraits – Hellerau Photography Award, Dresden, D

Highly commended award at the Global SinoPhoto Award, British Library, London, UK

2022
Finalist DA! Art Award, D

Project Grant by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, D

2021
Project Grant by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, D

2020
Project Grant Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, D

2018
Appointed member of DGPh, D

Artist in residence, Toot Yung Art Space, Chiang Mai, THA

2016
Prize-winning Photo Festival Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, CHN

2014
Artist in residence, Organhaus, Chongqing, CHN

2012
Artist in residence, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, CHN

Artist in residence, The Cill Rialaig, IRL

Artist in residence, Foundación Valparioso, Mojácar, ESP

2010
Artist in Residence, Sowing Seeds, Village Sar, Jodpur, IND

2009
Artist in residence, Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, IND

Lectures / Seminars
2020
Corona und Solidarität, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, D

Panel discussion presentation ABBAU – Kein Raum mehr für die Kunstszene in Düsseldorf? ( CUTBACK – no more space for the art scene?) with cultural administration and politics at Salon des Amateurs, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, D

2019
Conference co-organiser of Von der Selbstausbeutung in die Altersarmut –
Künstler suchen Perspektiven (From Self-exploitation to Old-age Poverty – Artists Develop New Perspectives) with lectures, penal discussions, and workshops, Town Museum of Düsseldorf, D

Workshop co-organiser of Wir gründen eine Künstlergenossenschaft (We establish an artists’ cooperative building society), Town Museum of Düsseldorf, D

Symposium co-organiser of Wohin geht die fotografische Entwicklung? (In What Direction Is the Development of Photography Heading?), Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, D

2018
Hochschule Niederrhein (University of Applied Science), Mönchengladbach, D

2017
Latvian Art Academy Riga, LVA

Werkbund Akademie 2017, D

Qipao Design Competition, Anren, Chengdu, CHN

2016
Latvian Art Academy Riga, LVA

2015
Beijing University of Technology, CHN

2014
Xijing University, Xi’an, CHN

Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, CHN

Art Academy Kunming, CHN

XYL MOMA Museum, Chengdu, CHN

2013
Xijing University, Xi’an, CHN (appointed visiting professor)

Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, CHN

XYL MOMA Museum, Chengdu, CHN

Curatorial projects
2019
Curator of the group exhibition Très Chic – Mode in der Kunst, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, D

2017 – 2020
Assistent to the curator and catalogue editing for the travelling exhibition
Bauhaus und die Fotografie – Zum Neuen Sehen in der Gegenwartskunst (Bauhaus and Photography – New Vision in Contemporary Art)
(venues: NRW Forum Düsseldorf, Museum für Fotografie Berlin, Kunsthalle Darmstadt)

Voluntary activities
since 2018
Elected member of Rat der Künste (Arts Council Düsseldorf), spokesperson and founding member
https://rat-der-kuenste.de

2017 – 2020
Board member of the artists’ association Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler zur gegenseitigen Unterstützung und Hilfe 1844
http://www.vddk1844.de

2017
Founder of the “Artists against Poverty among the Elderly” – panel
http://www.kuenstlerschaft-gegen-altersarmut.de

Corina Gertz completed her studies in fashion design, pattern making and couture tailoring. She lived in Düsseldorf, Florence, Cape Town, and Hong Kong while she created collections for international companies.