Prof. Silke Helmerdig, PhD

Artistic Photography

Head of the Department of Art

Room G1.229
Holzgartenstr. 36
75175 Pforzheim

Phone +49 (7231) 28-6743

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2016 - PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England

2012 - Professorship of Artistic Photography, Pforzheim University School of Design

2005-2010 Visiting Professor of Photography, HBK Braunschweig

1991 - Master of Arts, Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design. England

1990-2012 Freelance photo designer/ artist

1990 - Diploma (FH), Design, FH Dortmund

appointed member of the DGPH

appointed member of the German Photographic Academy

Member of the NGBK

2020 - "Thinking Figures in Pictures - Reflecting on Photography", Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Pforzheim, with Manfred Schmalriede

"Rehearsal on the Mirror Stage", MyBerlinWall (curator Raphael von Uslar), Berlin

2019 - "Randnotizen", artists' guild Buslat, Pforzheim, with Monika Markert

2018 - book launch "Berlin by Numbers/London from A-Z", 25 books, Berlin

2015 - "Fragments, futures, absence and the past", AND Event Space, London

2008-2010 Hotel illustration, concepts and realization HBK BS with Intercityhotel GmbH

2021 - The universe is not representable - Markus Feifel-Pargas, Konstantin Koposov, Jasper O'Callaghan, Jeain Pyo. Photo exhibition at the Brötzinger Art Gallery, Pforzheim

2019 - Hingeschaut - Nareh Apelian, Kostya Koposov, Jasper O'Callaghan: Exhibition of students at the Buslat Artists' Guild

2017 - Moments in silver - Exhibition of students for the jewelry anniversary at Kultirhaus Osterfeld

2016 - Iris Ebert, Tatsiana Tribulanove, Benjamin Voit: Exhibition of students at the Buslat Artists' Guild

2015 - Looking at suffering, exhibition on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pforzheim in the Schlosskirche, Pforzheim

2013 - Exhibition participation Johanna Hößle, student of fashion design, exhibition Oskar Schlemmer, Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden

2009 - BMBF-funded excursion to Israel, collaborations

Helmerdig, S. (2018). Berlin by Numbers/London from A-Z

Helmerdig, S. (2016). Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A new approach to photography

Helmerdig, S. (2012). Pavement Drawings

Helmerdig, S. (2010). 3030 km as the crow flies; results of a research excursion to Jerusalem.

Helmerdig, S. (2007). "Welt-Raum-Körper-Bild". in: Carsten Würmann / Martina Schuegraf / Sandra Smykalla / Angela Poppitz (eds.) Welt.Raum.Körper

Helmerdig, S. (2006). Ein Pixel Zwei Korn - Grundlagen analoger und digitaler Fotografien und ihre Gestaltung, with Dr. Martin Scholz