Bärbel Reinhard was born in Stuttgart/Germany in 1977.

She lives in Pistoia and works in Florence, Italy.

 

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

 

2017/06 Regarding women in the Acton Collection: Zoé Buckman, Alessandra Capodacqua, Patricia Cronin, Baerbel Reinhard, Deb Willis. Curated by Ellyn Toscano. Villa La Pietra, New York University, Florence

2017/04 European Month of Photography. Luxembourg, Abbaye Neimuenster. Curated by Alessandra Capodacqua and Paul di Felice.

2016/11 TAI Tuscan Art Industry. Group video installation, curated by Rebecca Digne and Alessandro Gallicchio, Ex-Calamai, Prato

2016/11 Luce e Ombra. Fabrizio Corneli, Federico Gori, Gerardo Paoletti, Baerbel Reinhard, Arrigo Lora Totino. Museo Leonardo da Vinci, Vinci. Curated by Claudio Giorgetti.

2016/10 Esploratori. Baerbel Reinhard, Paolo Meoni, Franco Menicagli. Curated by Sergio Tossi, Corridoio Brunelleschi, Florence

2016/06 Lo spazio a se identico s'accresca o si neghi. Solo show curated by Sergio Tossi, Galleria Cartavetra, Florence

2016/04 Through the looking glass. Martina della Valle, Annabel Elgar, Baerbel Reinhard. Curated by Marcella Manni, Galleria Metronom, Modena

2016/04 Pistoia Contemporary Arts - Palazzi d'arte, curated by Luca Sposato

2016/02 Memory Archive. Photobook Melbourne

2015/10 Io vedo io guardo. CRAC. Artforms, Prato

2015/07 Elementi di Geometrie sentimentali. Luca Matti, Baerbel Reinhard, Tomoko Sugahara, Carlo Zei. Curated by Sergio Tossi. Egg Visual Art, Livorno

2015/01 Selvatico 3. Massa Lombarda, Sala del Carmine. Arianna Arcara, Michele Buda, Daniele Casadio, Marcello Galvani, Alex Majoli, Gabriele Micalizzi, Baerbel Reinhard, Andy Rocchelli, Alessandro Sala, Luca Santese, Marco Signorini, Marco Vincenzi, Marco Zanella, David Loom, Carloni-Franceschetti, Mauro Santini, Fabrizio Zanuccoli, Claudia Castellucci e Filippo Tappi. 

2014/10 Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Foro Boario, Bookshop - Federica Di Giovanni, Baerbel Reinhard, Giulia Ticozzi - curated by Francesca Sani

2014/09 ni haut ni bas - Galleria LATO, Prato. Groupshow curated by Alessandro Gallicchio

2013/10 Sensus. Luoghi per l'arte contemporanea: Altari profani. Groupshow curated by Claudio Cosma

2013/09 Fotoconfronti Bibbiena: as above so below. Solo exhibition.

2013/08 Facephoto Sassoferrato. Il tempo. Group show.

2013/04 The eye is a lonely hunter. 4vesta, Pistoia

2012/11 Verso Est. Groupshow, Tethys Gallery, Florence

2012/09 PUF Pistoia

2012/05 Crossing borders. European Art Project, Le Murate, Florence

2012/04 Citerna Festival, Solo Exhibition: Eastern Germany

2012/04 XX Years Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence. Curated by Giovanna Calvenzi, Daniele de
Luigi, Roberta Valtorta

2011/11 Private Flat, Florence, KAM, curated by Martino Marangoni

2011/06 Spirit level IV with Arno Minkkinen and Elina Brotherus. Luova Gallery Helsinki and University
of Massachussetts

2011/05 Valtiberina and its population, Festival della Fotografia, Citerna

2011/02 Peripheries. Villa Vogel, Florence

2010/09 Final Students' Show. Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence

2009/09 Codici binari. The Tramway of Florence. Gingerzone Scandicci

2009/05 National pinhole photography exhibition. Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia

2008/11 Workshop-exhibition with Giovanni Chiaramonte. Palazzo del Duca, Senigallia

2008/01 Urban territories by night. Feltrinelli International, Florence

2007/09 Urban landscapes. Limonaia di Villa Strozzi, Florence 

EDUCATION

2008-2010 Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence
 Three-Year Program in Professional Photography
 She participated in workshops with Arno Minkkinen, Rineke Dijkstra,
 Abelardo Morell, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Paolo Woods, Paolo Verzone,
 George Tatge, Marco Signorini, Dejan Atanackovic, Carmelo Bongiorno, Sally Gall

2005 She graduated (Magister Artium) in History of Arts, Sociology and German
 Literature at the Humboldt-University of Berlin. She previously studied at the
 University of Freiburg, and at the University of Florence with an Erasmus-scholarship.

 

MENTIONS

2013 Best Selfpublished Photobook, Fotoconfronti / Centro Italiano della Fotografia d'Autore

2011 Citerna Festival della Fotografia, first prize Portfolio Citerna

2010 selected for Spirit Level IV with Arno Minkkinen and Elina Brotherus
 and Networking for Young Artists in Tuscany, Ex3, Florence

2010 receives scholarship of Fondazione Studio Marangoni

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching:

2011- current Fondazione Studio Marangoni: Black-and white- techniques and laboratory for professional courses, Photoshop for beginners, photography classes for children and young adults

2011-2016 Professor for Photography classes I and II at Sarah Lawrence College Florence

2011-2016 Assistant Professor New York University Photography I, Photojournalism, Photography of Architecture and Urban Landscape

 

Curatorship:

Biennale Giovani Fotografi 2016, Centro di Fotografia d'Autore, section FSMarangoni

Mario Carnicelli: C'era Togliatti at Palazzo Fabroni Pistoia & Festival Internazionale di Fotografia di Roma, 2014

Luca Canonici: Calendario del FEC, Ministero per gli Interni, Roma, 2014

                         Quel che rimane, Montevarchi, 2014

                         ANIMAE, Exhibition at Consiglio Regionale Firenze, 2016

 

Co-editor for www.m-mag.it

Co-organisator for "Salotto fotografico": talks and debates around contemporary photography

 

The series "Schnittemenge. Punctum." is represented by gallery METRONOM, Modena

The series "The eye is a lonely Hunter is represented by LABOTTEGA Pietrasanta

 

Collaborations with publishers Danilo Montanari Editore Ravenna and Gli Ori, Pistoia.

Works as freelance photographer for several clients.