This is an overview including selected Exhibitions and Publications. Both areas are covered more detailed in the respective areas of this Web site.
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      Katharina Bosse was born in Turku, Finland in 1968 and grew up in Kirchzarten, Germany. She graduated 1994 in Visual Communications at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany.
Awards include a DAAD-Scholarship in 1994 and The Agfa International Award for Photojournalism in 1997.
In addition to her work as an artist, her editorial work is published by magazines including The New Yorker, Spin, Park Avenue, Wired, Der Spiegel and the New York Times Magazine. After working in New York for six years, Katharina Bosse is currently living and teaching photography in Bielefeld, Germany.
 
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, France
FRAC Ile de France, Paris
 
2006  New Burlesque, Galerie Merz, Rottweil
2005  Mermaids/Waterparks, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2004  Mermaids in the City, Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2004  Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, Les Transphotographiques, Galerie Interieur, Lille
2003  New Burlesque, Portraits of Burlesque Performers, Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris
2002  New Burlesque, Portraits of Burlesque Performers, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2002  New Burlesque, Portraits of Burlesque Performers and Amusement Architecture, Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany
2001  Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, at the Art Festival "Printemps de Septembre - Theatres of Anxiety" (Cat.), Toulouse, France
2001  Surface Tension, The Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
2001  Surface Tension, Anne Barrault Gallery, Paris, France
2000 Surface Tension, Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
2000  From outside/from inside, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
2000  L'Empire des Signe, l'Empire des Sens | Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, "Le Kitsch" - Mois de l'Image de Dieppe, France
1999  Ten Rooms for Sex, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
1999  Reich der Zeichen, Reich der Sinne | Realms of Signs, Realms of Senses, Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne and Art Cologne, International Art Fair

 
2008  Ad Absurdum, Museum MARTa, Herford
2008  Die Welt im Umbruch/A Changing World Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
2008  Photography Highlights, Museum Huelsmann, Bielefeld
2007  Internationale Photo Triennale, Esslingen
2007  En Quête d'Identité, Centre Photographique d'Ile-de-France
2006  Out of Context, OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, New York
2006  Please Wait, Immanence et Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
2005  YES YES YES YES, Differenz und Wiederholung in Bildern der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Morsbroich
2004  Katharina Bosse, Aki Ikemura, Manuela Marques, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York
2004  A Clear Vision, Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2004  About Corporeality in Editions: Artist Books, Prints, Photography. Galerie Lelong, Zürich
2003  Locating Intimacy, Camera Works, San Francisco
2003  Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Stadtgalerie Prag, Historisches Museum Berlin, House of Photography Moskau, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2003  Afternoon Delight, Caren Golden Gallery, New York
2003  Phantom of Desire, Neue Galerie Graz
2002  Life of the City, Photographs of New York from the Museum's collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001  Westworld, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2001 Mode - Körper - Mode: Photographien eines Jahrhunderts | Fashion - Body - Fashion: Photographs of a Century, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
2001  DAAD: Weltwärts | Towards the World, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2000  Les Trahisons du Modèle | The Betrayal of the Model, Semaines Européennes de l'Image, Stéphan Ackermann Agence d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2000  Seeing Double, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000  New York Now 2000, Museum of the City of New York, New York
2000  "Good Business is the Best Art", Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1999  Nature/Culture, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London

 
Internationale Photo Triennale, Esslingen, 2007
YES YES YES YES, Differenz und Wiederholung in Bildern der Sammlung Olbricht, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2005/6
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson, London 2004
Photographie Plasticienne, LExtrême Contemporain, Éditions du Regard, Paris 2004
Von Körpern und anderen Dingen, Deutsche Fotografie im 20.Jhd, Edition Braus 2004
New Burlesque, Editions Filigranes, Paris 2003, D.A.P., New York, 2004
Surface Tension, Monograph, Kruse, Hamburg 2000 (US distribution by D.A.P.)
Mode-Körper-Mode | Fashion-Body-Fashion, Photographs of a century, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 2000
Les Trahisons du Modèle | The Betrayal of the Model, Trends and Sensibility in Contemporary Photography, Semaines Européennes de l'Image, Le Havre, Luxembourg, Dudelange 2000
Insight Out, Landscape and Interior in Contemporary Photography, Edition Stemmle, Zürich - New York, 1999
Signe, Lukas & Hoffmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 1997
Contemporary German Photography, Taschen, Cologne, 1997
Surroundings, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 1995