PETRA KARADIMAS

born 1967 in Stuttgart, lives and works in Berlin.

Work Experience

Director

berg19 space for photography, 2008-2010

Faculty

International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, 1997

Education

Master of Fine Arts

Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1995

Bachelor of Arts in Photography

Hunter College of the City University of New York, 1991

Awards & Grants

Grant

Art Foundation Kunstfonds Bonn, 2022

Catalog Grant

Cohen Foundation, New York, 2009

Stipend

Art Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg, 2001

Stipend

Senate Department of Culture, Berlin, 1998

Award

Nancy Ashton Memorial Fund, New York, 1995

Selected Collections

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
  • DZ Bank, Germany
  • Messe Frankfurt, Germany
  • Osram Collection, Germany
  • Landesbank Berlin, Germany

Exhibitions

Past

Strangers

Toolbox, Berlin

2025

RE:VISION

Galerie Nord - Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

2024

Between Light and Matter – On Appearance and Disappearance

Galerie Nord - Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

2024

Double Take

Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin

2023

OPEN END (with Gabriele Kuenne)

Gallery Axel Obiger, Berlin

2022

20/20 – 100Years

Schoeler-Berlin

2020

terre des hommes auction

Wuerttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart

2019

Giftshop V

Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin

2016

Kim Whan Ki Art Festival Rhapsody

Anjwa Island, South Korea

2015

les prochaines 1

espace surplus, Berlin

2013

Artistic Production

espace surplus, Berlin

2011

Cross Section

Collection Osram, Munich

2010

green

berg19 space for photography, Berlin

2009

Long Distance Relationship

Kunststiftung Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart

2008

Figure of the Body

loop – space for contempory art, Berlin

2008

Selftimer

berg19 space for photography, Berlin

2008

Treize (with Matthew Burbidge)

espace surplus, Berlin

2007

Sexy Helden starke Action

Brotfabrik Gallery, Berlin

2006

Urban Photographs (with Michael Awad)

Goethe Institute, Toronto, CA

2005

berlin toronto

loop – space for contempory art, Berlin

2005

Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, CA

2004

Where is Berlin?

Brotfabrik Gallery, Berlin

2004

No. 1

loop – space for contempory art, Berlin

2003

Berlinskaja Lazur

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, House of Photography, Moskow and Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris

2003

The Big Impression

City Gallery Bremen / KMZA, Berlin

2003

Kunststiftung Baden Wuerttemberg (with Peter Pommerer)

2002

Sub-Urban

loop – space for contempory art, Berlin

2002

Young Art

Kunstverein Pforzheim

2002

Sub-Urban Models

Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, AUT

2002