Pola Sieverding
Pola Sieverding is a visual artist who works in the field of lens-based media. Using photography, video, and sound, she examines the physical body as a carrier of historical narratives that shape a contemporary discourse on the social body. By defining the body linguistically as an alternative to the word, she utilizes the classical ideal of the body as a site of pleasure and power. She is drawn to extremes and socialized emotions, to something that is felt when the body alternates between looking and being looked at, touching and being touched. Her paintings explore the body as an expressive element, the way we change our behavior when we feel we are acting, a performance of just being. In films, photographs and installations, in conversation and in teaching, she realizes her form of critical feminism, which dispenses with enemy images and is not least trained in queer aesthetics. An examination of masculinity can be seen in her visual moments.
Sieverding studied at the University of the Arts Berlin, CMU Pittsburgh and Surikov Institute Moscow. She was a visiting lecturer to the Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 2016-2020. She …
Pola Sieverding is a visual artist who works in the field of lens-based media. Using photography, video, and sound, she examines the physical body as a carrier of historical narratives that shape a contemporary discourse on the social body. By defining the body linguistically as an alternative to the word, she utilizes the classical ideal of the body as a site of pleasure and power. She is drawn to extremes and socialized emotions, to something that is felt when the body alternates between looking and being looked at, touching and being touched. Her paintings explore the body as an expressive element, the way we change our behavior when we feel we are acting, a performance of just being. In films, photographs and installations, in conversation and in teaching, she realizes her form of critical feminism, which dispenses with enemy images and is not least trained in queer aesthetics. An examination of masculinity can be seen in her visual moments.
Sieverding studied at the University of the Arts Berlin, CMU Pittsburgh and Surikov Institute Moscow. She was a visiting lecturer to the Academy of Art Palestine in Ramallah and an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 2016-2020. She has received several grants including a DAAD travel grant in 2008 and the Arbeitsstipendium by the Senat of Berlin in 2014. She has exhibited internationally at Art in General, New York; DOCUMENTA 13, Kassel (with Natascha Sadr Haghighian); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (with Orson Sieverding); Lumiar Cité, Lisbon; Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dubai; NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach; and MAK Museum für Angewandte und Gegenwartskunst, Vienna.
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