Anne-Lena Michel is an elementary school teacher and visual artist based in Berlin.

studies

2021 second state exam for elementary school education, Berlin
2005-2012 studies in Photography at Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen with Prof. Christopher Muller and Prof. Gisela Bullacher, Diploma with highest honours
2003-2005 studies in German and Romance philology at Julius Maximilians Universität, Würzburg
2001/2002 French studies at Sorbonne, Paris

awards and residencies

2014 Shortlist, International Photobook Dummy Award
2013 finalist, Marianne Brandt-Preis
2011 bursary for Cité internationale des Arts, Paris of Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes NRW
2010 excellency bursary of Folkwang Universität der Künste

exhibitions

2020
Sichten, Bremen

2019
Cologne Art Book Fair, Köln
A.L.M. l'édition, post tyler, Köln

2018
Book release TREIZE, Galerie pavlov's dog, Berlin

2017
Athens Photo Festival, Greece

2016
De Invasie van Antwerpen, Kattendijkdok, Antwerp, Belgium

2015
Feiro do Livro de Fotografia, Lisbon, Portugal
Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair, Antwerp, Belgium
kijk:papers, Kassel
Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

2014
International Photobook Dummy Award:
MIA, 22.-25.5., Milan, Italy
Fotoleggendo, 6.6.-28.6., Rome, Italy
IED, 4.6.-25.6., Madrid, Spain
Photoireland, 3.7.-6.7., Dublin, Ireland
The PhotoBookMuseum, 20.8.-20.9., Cologne
Le Bal, 28. – 31.8., Paris, France
Photobookseminar 4.9.-15.9., Oslo, Norway
Paraty in Focus 24.9.-28.9., Paraty, Brasil
Madalena Workshops, October, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Athens Photo Festival 24.10.-12.11., Athens, Greece
F Book Show, TIP Tokyo Institute of Photography / 72Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Die Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Die Poesie des Funktionalen, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin

2013
Die Poesie des Funktionalen, Industriemuseum Chemnitz (catalogue)
STARCAST (solo), Galerie Verteilerebene, Essen
high index (with Katja Kottmann), Galerie 52, Essen

2012
Archives - Un inventaire sans fin, Goethe-Institut Paris (catalogue)
with Martin von Frantzius, Petra Koehle/Nicolas Vermot Petit-Outhenin, Katja Kottmann, Pia Maria Martin, Matthias Schleifer
Der Zweifel bleibt, Diplomashow, Huyssenalle, Essen
Kein Wort zu viel (students of Christopher Muller), Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen (catalogue)

2011
Everybody loves artists, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
Open Studio, Galerie 52, Essen

2010
Aufruhr, Raum 201, Essen
Teaching Photography, Folkwang Museum, Essen
New Frontiers/Cumulus Konferenz, Kokerei auf Zollverein, Essen

2009
The Grain of the Voice, LCC London (catalogue)

2008
Räume_Bildräume, Bürgermeisterhaus Essen-Werden
carte blanche, students of Prof. Gisela Bullacher, Galerie GAM, Essen

2006-2009
Sichtwerk of Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen

Impressum:
Angaben gemäß § 5 TMG:

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