BEATE C. KOEHLER

p.h.o.t.o.art | photo :: video :: sound


About me


Beate C. Koehler is interested in questions of identity and the relationship between humans and the environment. Her current work focuses on the element of water in all its manifestations. She creates water portraits from photographic, film and sound material. The artist collects visual and sonic impressions on her travels to lakes, rivers and seas around the world. She has worked extensively on the lakes of Bremen and Weser, on the river Main, on the Pacific coast of San Francisco, in the Arctic in the area of Longyearbyen/Svalbard and on watercourses, the coast and glacier tongues in Nordland/Northern Norway.

Beate C. Koehler
Foto: Dawn Hamers 2022 | Beate C. Koehler @Ocean Beach San Francisco

short CV
Born in 1971 in Heidenheim | Germany
Studied German language and literature, Slavic studies, German as a foreign language and social work | Involved in photography since the age of 11, initially analogue and with her own black and white photo lab. From the early 2000s with a digital camera. Intensification of photographic practice motivated by a first 6-month stay in London in 2012, strengthened by a second in 2015 (sabbatical). Resulting from this first exhibition activities. End of 2017/beginning of 2018 decision to work full-time as a freelance photographer/artist.
Place of residence: Bremen | Germany
  • 02/2023: Founding of the association KULTUR_HAPPEN | Chairwoman of the Board
  • 02/2021: Admitted to the KSK (Artists' Social Insurance Fund | Künstler Sozialkasse)
  • 07/2020: Admission to the BBK (Professional Association of Visual Artists Bremen Berufsverband Bildender Künstlerinnen Bremen)
  • 04/2020: Founding of the art collective Mete Cheer to network and make female artists visible
  • from 2018: freelance artist
  • from 2012: active as a part-time artist
scholarships
2022: Senator for Culture Bremen | Senator für Kultur Bremen
2021: Foundation Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst
2020/21: Senator for Culture Bremen | Senator für Kultur Bremen

solo*/duo exhibitions
2024: Open Studio* "KunstWerk im Viertel" | Bremen/GER
2024:
Polar landscapes* | Brodelpott/Bremen Harbor Museum/GER
2023:
Bird Messages, Ink Art Gallery Weimar/GER
2023: SUR/FACES*,
Producers' Gallery Mimis Erbe Worpswede/GER
2021: dynamic vibes |
Producers' Gallery Kunstmix, Bremen/GER
2020:
ID-ENTITÄTEN – Dynamische Beziehungen | Women's Museum, Bremen/GER

selected exhibition participations

2025: NordArt (with Anke Bär), Büdelsdorf/GER
2025: Mitsuko Castle Japanese Museum (with Anke Bär), Thürkow-Todendorf
2025: Room/sound installation #hiddenWESERsounds |
miniaturen festival | Bremen/GER
2024:
Allowing Death: JASMINA | Bremer Film Festival/GER
2024: WaterTraces, Theaterkontor Bremen/GER
2023: DRAW CIRCLES, Friedenskirche Bremen/GER
2023:
Fresh Legs, Inselgalerie Berlin/GER
2023: Transience in Art,
Life and Death Fair Bremen/GER
2022:
NordArt, Büdelsdorf/GER
2022/23:
1000 & Your View, D/PL/CZ
2022: Art exhibition Nature - Man | St. Andreasberg/GER
2022:
Den Stift vögeln & FLUSS DES LEBENS | Bremer Film Festival/GER
2021:
Fresh Legs, Galleri Heike Arndt DK Berlin/GER
2021:
Hairy Business, Kunsthalle Bremen/GER
2021: Summer exhibition,
Producers' Gallery Mimis Erbe Worpswede/GER
2019: PATCHWORK IDENTITY | Gallery 64, Bremen/GER
2015:
PRIVATE / PUBLIC | Gallery Mitte, Bremen/GER

filmography
(selection)
2024:
Den Nøgne Frakke / The Naked Coat | 3:00
2023:
WATER_2022_365 | 23:34
2022:
WALKING THE TIDELINE | The Pacific Coast of San Francisco | 5:38
2022:
Le Rôhne ::: sous le pont d’Avignon | 11:06
2022:
WATER_DIALOGUES_Main | 0:59
2022:
FLUSS DES LEBENS | 3:00
2022:
about SEEING | 2:43
2021:
THE VIRUS | 21:22
2019:
DAMAGED | 4:00
2019:
GENDER FLUIDITY | 2:12

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