/ME/

Born in Munich, Germany / 1 November 1966

What or who do you rely on to get you through live in the modern world? Deep in myself there is something helping me through. Why do you take photographs? To assure my identity and because I love pictures.

(Questions: Fiona Hayes Editor-in-Chief/Creative Director Dayfour / Photography: Christian Kain)

/CONTACT/

+49 (0) 172 8163051
bettina@bettinakoller.de
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/EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS/

2024

Finalist Sarajevo Photography Festival 2024

Shortlisted Athens Photo Festival 2024

2023

Shortlisted Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival 2024

Past & Present DER GREIF/Pavillon 333/Pinakothek der Moderne and Zirka Space/Munich/Germany

2022

Horror Vacui/achtzehnkommazwei – Raum für Kunst/Munich/Germany

Rethinking Nature/Foto Wien/Festival Centre/Vienna/Austria

2021

Imago Lisboa Photo Festival/Discovery Awards 2021 projection/Carpintarias de São Lázaro/Portugal

Encontros da Imagem/Discovery Awards 2021 projection/Finalist/Braga/Portugal

Bodies of Knowledge/Guest Room DER GREIF/curated by Mariama Attah and Daniel C. Blight

Imago Lisboa Photo Festival/group show/Rethinking Nature/Carpintarias de São Lázaro/Portugal

European Month of Photography Luxembourg/group show/Rethinking Nature/Casino Luxembourg

2020

Shortlisted Athens Photo Festival 2020

Defining Selected phase Nera di Verzasca Prize – Verzasca Foto Awards 2020

Special mention, URBANAUTICA INSTITUTE AWARDS 2020

2019

10 sec./photographic pictures/solo exhibition/CoMA Gallery-Container of Modern Art/Munich

2018

Winner Third Prize Faust photo contest 2018, Theatergemeinde München/
group exhibition Nenn´s Glück! Herz! Liebe! Gott!/Ich habe keinen Namen dafür/Foyer Philharmonie Gasteig/Munich

Das Faultier ist nicht faul/solo exhibition/MVHS am Scheidplatz/Munich

2017

Photo 17 München/group exhibition/Praterinsel/Munich

2016

Shortlisted St. Leopold Friedenspreis 2016 Die Macht der Gier/group exhibition/Sala Terrena Galerie/Stift Klosterneuburg/Austria

Winner photography competition Call for Plots/group exhibition/Lothringer 13/Munich

2015

ultraviolet/maoz vinyl/Munich

2014

Remix/solo exhibition/louloute/Munich

2012

Neuland/group exhibition/BelleVue – Ort für Fotografie/Basel

2011

Silence like the wind overtakes me/group exhibition/cyan – Raum für Fotografie/Munich

2010

FotoDoks 2010, documentary photography festival/group exhibition/Puerto Giesing/Munich
dayfour ulysses/group exhibition/theprintspacegallery/London

2009

dayfour You Can´t Always Get What You Want/group exhibition/theprintspace gallery/ London
Schwellenwert/group exhibition/cyan-Raum für Fotografie/Munich
Die Macht der Sprache/group exhibition/Goethe-Institut Rabat/Marocco/Goethe-Institut  Göttingen

2008

Die Macht der Sprache/group exhibition/Goethe-Institut Munich/
Goethe-Institut Bremen/Instituto Cervantes/Institut Français Fremdsprachenzentrum der Hochschulen Bremen/Goethe-Institut Freiburg

2007

soweit/group exhibition/cyan-Raum für Fotografie/Munich
Recommendation Goethe-Institut/photo competition Die Macht der Sprache/
group exhibition/Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Wissenschaftszentrum/Bonn/Franckeschen Stiftungen zu Halle

2005

Recommendation SBC Hamburg photo competition the nature of skin/group exhibition/3.Triennale der Fotografie/Hamburg

2001

Junge Fotografie/group exhibition/Büro für Architektur und Fotografie/Stuttgart

1996

Mit Grenzen leben in cooperation with Deutsche Multiple Sklerose Gesellschaft/solo exhibition/Gasteig/Munich

1995

First Prize/Münchner Jugendfotopreis Spookys Beam to Munich/group exhibition/Festspielhaus/Munich

/PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES/

Spielwelten, Verein für Essentielle Gestaltarbeit, Freiburg, 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-043440-2 // Neuland, exhibition catalogue, Basel, 2012 // ulysses2, dayfour self publishing exhibition catalogue, UK 2010 // you can´t always get what you want, day four self publishing exhibition catalogue, UK 2009 // the new constellations, day four self publishing, UK 2008 // Die Macht der Sprache Langenscheidt Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3126065160 // Haut – the nature of skin, Dölling und Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 978-3937904283