Ute Behrend is a German artist, publisher, lecturer and editor, based in Cologne in Germany. She is the founder of Bummbumm books and a member of the presidium of the German Photographic Academy. (DFA)
Behrend’s photographs and video installations have been exhibited internationally, and are included in many public collections, such as the Kasper König Collection, Sprengel Museum, Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Deichtorhallen Collection FC Gundlach, among others. Her work has been the subject of five monographs: Girls, some Boys and other Cookies (Scalo Publishers, 1996), Märchen / Fairy Tales ( Walter Koenig, Koeln, 2006), Zimmerpflanzen ( Snoeck, 2008), The last Year of Childhood (Powershovel Books, 2011), Bärenmädchen / Bear Girls (BummBumm Books, 2019).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2021 Photo Festival Copenhagen, Denmark
Museum für Photografie, Braunschweig, Germany
2019 Pänz und Barn, SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, with Thekla Ehling
2018 Being a child, Kunstmuseum Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Fassade und Tarnung, Scop Galerie, Hannover
2016 Singapore International Photography Festival