Bärbel Reinhard was born in Stuttgart/Germany.

She lives in Pistoia and works in Florence, Italy.

 

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2018/06 Border Off. Meri Iacchi, Lori Lako, Baerbel Reinhard, Tatiana Villani, Guerilla Spam. Videoscreenings. Curated by Serena Becagli, Pontassieve

2018/05 Ritrattismi. Domenico Acquaroli, Carlo Bach, Matteo Basilè, Alessandro Bazan, David Byrne, Pablo Candiloro, Sandro Chia, Alberto Conti, Andrea Conti, Anton Corbijn, Arnold Dall'O, Francesco De Grandi, Aron Demetz, Jim Dine, Fulvio Di Piazza, Jiri Dokoupil, Rainer Fetting, Ribert Gligorov, Francesco Lauretta, Paolo Leonardo, Francesco Martinelli, Mario Merz, Francesco Niccolai, Enrico Pantani, Giacomo Piussi, Baerbel Reinhard, Santiago Ydanez. Curated by Sergio Tossi, Dimensione Verde, Florence

2018/04 NoPlace4, Santo Stefano Magra

2018/01 Interior's iconography. Teresa Bucca, Giulia del Sorbo, Giuseppe Guariglia, Matteo Lodolo, Baerbel Reinhard. Curated by FS Marangoni. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Florence

2017/11 Sguardi e visioni: l'ex Breda fra passato e futuro. Aurelio Amendola, Stefano Bartolini, Beatrice Bruni, Mario Carnicelli, Lorenzo Gori, Giulia Maraviglia, Baerbel Reinhard, George Tatge. Comune di Pistoia

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.
 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 Master (Magister Artium) in History of Arts, Master in Sociology and Master in German
 Literature at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Previous studies at University of Freiburg and University of Florence with an Erasmus-scholarship.

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Curator of Archive Mario Carnicelli

 

Teaching:

2018 Kent State University Florence: Photography & Storytelling

2018 University of Minnesota Florence: Exploring society through photography

2018 Berkley High School. Summerschool in Florence

2011-current Fondazione Studio Marangoni: Darkroom techniques (BW), photography classes and workshops at high schools, individual courses digital and analog, tutoring for special projects

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:

2018 Eurutopia. Photographs by Luca Canonici. RIL, Roma (with Marco Signorini)

2017  Chiave a stella. Il lavoro industriale nel '900. Sezione fotografica. Sale affrescate, Palazzo del Comune, Pistoia

2017 Pistoia Città dei Pulpiti. Fotografie di Nicolò Begliomini. Chiesa di San Bartolomeo, Pistoia

2017  Pistoia Contemporary Arts Weekend, sezione fotografica.

2016  Animae. Fotografie di Luca Canonici. Consiglio Regionale della Toscana

2016  Biennale Giovani Fotografi. Sezione Scuole x Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia d'Autore, Bibbiena

2014  Chiaroscuri. Mostra per il Calendario del Fondo Edifici di Culto per il Ministero dell'Interno, Roma

2014  C'era Togliatti. Fotografie di Mario Carnicelli. Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia

2014  C'era Togliatti. Fotografie di Mario Carnicelli. Festival Internazionale di Fotografia, Roma

 

President of Fragment Associazione Fotografica

Co-editor for www.m-mag.it

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

 

Collaborations with publishers Danilo Montanari Editore Ravenna; Gli Ori Pistoia; Reel Art Press, London; David Hill Gallery, London; 

 

Portfolio lecturer (SIfest Savignano, Fotoconfronti etc.)

Conference "Filosofia e Fotografia", Bibiloteca Le Oblate, Florence, 2015

Talk at Lucca Art Fair 2018

 

Works as freelance photographer.

Collaborations:

Stanza 251; Nu and the thumbs up (cover and artwork for album Warriors); Pitti Immagine; Verlagshaus Braun, Berlin; Dussmann das Kulturkaufhaus, Berlin; Messori Suites Florence; Grand Hotel Baglioni; Pagine Gialle; 

 

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 Scholarship of Fondazione Studio Marangoni

 

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

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